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Instability in a magnetised collisional plasma driven by a heat flow or a current
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| Title: | Instability in a magnetised collisional plasma driven by a heat flow or a current |
| Authors: | Bell, AR Kingham, RJ Watkins, H Matthews, J |
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
| Abstract: | We solve the linearised Vlasov-Fokker-Planck (VFP) equation to show that heat flow or an electrical current in a magnetized collisional plasma is unstable to the growth of a circularly polarised transverse perturbation to a zeroth order uniform magnetic field. The Braginskii (1965) transport equations exhibit the same instability in the appropriate limit. This is relevant to laser-produced plasmas, inertial fusion energy (IFE) and to dense cold interstellar plasmas. |
| Issue Date: | 13-Aug-2020 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 28-Apr-2020 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/78685 |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1361-6587/ab8e1b |
| ISSN: | 0741-3335 |
| Publisher: | IOP Publishing |
| Journal / Book Title: | Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion |
| Volume: | 62 |
| Issue: | 9 |
| Copyright Statement: | © 2020 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd. Original Content from this work may be used under theterms of theCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Anyfurther distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) andthe title of the work, journal citation and DOI. |
| Sponsor/Funder: | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council |
| Funder's Grant Number: | EP/M507878/1 |
| Keywords: | physics.plasm-ph physics.plasm-ph astro-ph.HE Fluids & Plasmas 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics 0299 Other Physical Sciences |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Open Access location: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ab8e1b |
| Online Publication Date: | 2020-04-28 |
| Appears in Collections: | Physics Plasma Physics Faculty of Natural Sciences |
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