The initial-value problem for the Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities of high-velocity magnetized shear layers with generalized polytrope laws
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Kevin G. Brown and S. Roy Choudhury
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Quart. Appl. Math. 60 (2002), 657-673
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Primary 76E25; Secondary 76E20, 76X05
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https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/1939005
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Abstract: The general initial-value problem for the linear Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of arbitrarily compressible magnetized anisotropic velocity shear layers is considered. The time evolution of the physical quantities characterizing the layer is treated using Laplace transform techniques. Singularity analysis of the resulting equations using Fuchs-Frobenius theory yields the large-time asymptotic solutions. Since all the singular points turned out to be real, the instability is found to remain, within the linear theory, of the translationally convective shear type. No onset of rotational or vortex motion, i.e., formation of “coherent structures” occurs because there are no imaginary singularities.
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Pritchett, P. L. and Coroniti, F. V., The collisionless macroscopic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability I. Transverse electrostatic mode, Journal Geophys. Res. 89, 168–178 (1984)
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Rajaram, R., Kalra, G. L., and Tandon, J. N., Discontinuities and the magnetospheric phenomena, J. Atm. Terr. Phys. 40, 991–1000 (1978)
Rajaram, R., Kalra, G. L., and Tandon, J. N., Discontinuities in the magnetosphere, Astrophys. Space Sci. 67, 137–150 (1980)
Ray, T. P., The effects of a simple shear layer on the growth of Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, Monthly Notices Roy. Astronom. Soc. 198, 617–625 (1982)
Ray, T. P. and Erschkovich, A. I., Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities of magnetized shear layers, Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc. 204, 821–826 (1983)
Roy Choudhury, S. and Lovelace, R. V. E., On the Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities of supersonic shear layers, Astrophysical J. 283, 331–342 (1984)
Roy Choudhury, S. and Lovelace, R. V. E., On the Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities of high-velocity magnetized shear layers, Astrophysical J. 302, 188–199 (1986)
Roy Choudhury, S., Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities of supersonic, magnetized shear layers, J. Plasma Phys. 35, 375–392 (1986)
Roy Choudhury, S. and Patel, V. L., Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities of high-velocity, magnetized anisotropic shear layers, Phys. Fluids 28, 3292–3301 (1985)
Roy Choudhury, S., Global asymptotic analysis of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of supersonic shear layers, Canadian J. Physics 68, 334–342 (1990)
Sen, A. K., Stability of the magnetosphere boundary, Planetary and Space Science 13, 131–141 (1965)
Sen, A. K., Effect of compressibility on Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a plasma, Physics of Fluids 7, 1293–1298 (1964)
Southwood, D. J., The hydromagnetic stability of the magnetospheric boundary, Planetary and Space Science 16, 587–605 (1968)
Southwood, D. J., Some features of the field line resonances in the magnetosphere, Planetary and Space Science 22, 483–491 (1974)
Sturrock, P. A. and Hartle, R. E., Two-fluid mode of the solar wind, Physical Review Lett. 16, 628–631 (1966)
Syrovatskii, A., The Helmholtz instability, Soviet Physics Uspekhi 62, 247–253 (1957)
Tajima, T. and Leboeuf, J. N., Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in supersonic and super-Alfvénic fluids, Physics of Fluids 23, 884–888 (1980)
Talwar, S. P., Hydromagnetic stability of the magnetospheric boundary, J. Geophysical Res. 69, 2707–2713 (1964)
Talwar, S. P., Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in an anisotropic plasma, Phys. Fluids 8, 1295–1299 (1965)
Turland, B. D. and Scheuer, P. A. G., Instabilities of Kelvin-Helmholtz type for relativistic streaming, Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc. 176, 421–441 (1976)
Winant, C. D. and Browand, F. K., Vortex pairing: The mechanism of turbulent mixing-layer growth, Journal Fluid Mech. 63, 237–255 (1974)
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