Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gvvz8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T17:14:16.758Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Firehose and mirror instabilities in a collisionless heat conducting plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

G. L. Kalra ,
Bhupinder Singh  and
S. N. Kathuria
G. L. Kalra
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Bhupinder Singh
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
S. N. Kathuria
Affiliation:
Indian Meteorological Department, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

A closed set of CGL equations, modified to include heat flux correction, is used to study the firehose and mirror instabilities in a rarefied plasma. A significant feature which has been noticed is that some of the terms contributed by the higher-order moments are of the same order as the terms in the unmodified CGL equations. We study the effect on the firehose and mirror instabilities of those terms which persist in the limit of vanishing heat flux vector. It is found that these terms lead to a new criterion for mirror instability. The criterion for hose instability, however, remains unaffected.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , October 1985 , pp. 313 - 318
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Abraham-Shrauner, B. J. 1967 J. Plasma Phys. 1, 361.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chandrasekhar, S., Kaufman, A. N. & Watson, K. M. 1958 Proc. Roy. Soc. A245, 435.Google Scholar
Chew, G. F., Goldberger, M. L. & Low, F. E. 1956 Proc. Roy. Soc. A236, 112.Google Scholar
Frieman, E., Davidson, R. & Langdon, B. 1966 Phys. Fluids, 9, 1475.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kalra, G. L. 1966 Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan, 18, 466.Google Scholar
Kalra, G. L., Hosking, R. J. & Talwar, S. P. 1970 Atrophys. Space Sci. 9, 34.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kalra, G. L. & Kathuria, S. N. 1979 IAGA Bulletin No. 43 (ed. N. Fukushima), p. 329.Google Scholar
Kalra, G. L. & Talwar, S. P. 1970 Can. J. Phys. 48, 29.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lüst, R. 1960 International Summer Course in Plasma Physics, p. 201. Danish AEC.Google Scholar
Macmahon, A. 1965 Phys. Fluids, 8, 1840.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Marochnik, L. S. 1967 Soviet Astron-AJ, 10, 738.Google Scholar
Namikawa, T. & Hamabata, H. 1981 J. Plasma Phys. 26, 95.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tandon, J. N. & Talwar, S. P. 1963 Nucl. Fusion, 3, 75.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thompson, W. B. 1961 Rep. Prog. Phys. 24, 363.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vedenov, A. A. & Sagdeev, R. Z. 1959 Plasma Physics and Problems of controlled Thermonuclear Reactions, vol. 3, p. 332.Google Scholar
Whang, Y. C. 1971 J. Geophys. Res. 76, 7503.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yajima, N. 1966 Prog. Theor. Phys. 36, 1.CrossRefGoogle Scholar