Stability of drift‐wave modons in the presence of temperature gradients
作者:
D. Jovanovic´,
W. Horton,
期刊:
Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics
(AIP Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 5,
issue 1
页码: 9-18
ISSN:0899-8221
年代: 1993
DOI:10.1063/1.860872
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
In the homogeneous Hasegawa–Mima equation, the dipole vortex or modon solution is well known to be robustly stable from both analytic and numerical studies. In the inhomogeneous plasma where∇Te≠0 the corresponding vortex has an external structure extending into the high‐temperature region. Lyapunov stability method is used to determine the stability properties of these extended vortex structures. The overall growth rate of deformation caused by the presence of temperature inhomogeneity is shown to be bounded by (R/LT)2, whereRis the radius of the core of the vortex andLTis the scale length of the temperature gradient. The most important source of instability is identified as the excitation of monopolar and dipolar perturbations with short spatial scales ≲R, which are approximately independent of the presence of the density and temperature gradients.
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