Accession Number:
AD0697949
Title:
GROWING WAVE AND INSTABILITY CRITERIA FOR HOT PLASMAS,
Descriptive Note:
Corporate Author:
STANFORD UNIV CALIF INST FOR PLASMA RESEARCH
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Report Date:
1967-01-01
Pagination or Media Count:
5.0
Abstract:
In the original colliding-pole criterion for determining instability types from dispersion relations, the Landau poles had to be selected laboriously. The simple rule is proved that only poles colliding through negative wave number lead to nonconvective instability. Author
Subject Categories:
- Plasma Physics and Magnetohydrodynamics