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Instability in a magnetised collisional plasma driven by a heat flow or a current

Bell, A; Kingham, R; Watkins, H; Matthews, J; (2020) Instability in a magnetised collisional plasma driven by a heat flow or a current. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 10.1088/1361-6587/ab8e1b. (In press). Green open access

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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.

Type: Article
Title: Instability in a magnetised collisional plasma driven by a heat flow or a current
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6587/ab8e1b
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ab8e1b
Language: English
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10099737
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