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Magnetic fields generated by the Rayleigh-Taylor instability
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2009
Abstract
In the absence of magnetic diffusion the self-generated magnetic field in a plasma is proportional to the fluid vorticity. The ratio of magnetic to fluid energy then shows that self-generated magnetic fields can only affect the Rayleigh Taylor growth rate for large k (wavelengths less then a few microns).
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