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Stability and eigenfrequency bounds for steady flow of a cylindrical electrostatic plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

R. J. Lucas
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616

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The stability of steady flow of an N-component, warm or cold, cylindrical electrostatic plasma is considered. The plasma is immersed in a magnetic field B0(r), where r is the radial co-ordinate, which is allowed to have both axial and azimuthal components. The unperturbed quantities are allowed to be arbitrary functions of r consistent with the zero-order equations. A sufficient condition for the stability of a rotating flow to axisymmetric perturbations is obtained.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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