A nonlinear theory of the parallel firehose and gyrothermal instabilities in a weakly collisional plasma
Weakly collisional plasmas dynamically develop pressure anisotropies with respect to the magnetic field. These anisotropies trigger plasma instabilities at scales just above the ion Larmor radius \rho_i and much below the mean free path \lambda_{mfp}. They have growth rates of a fraction of the ion...
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| Format: | Journal article |
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2010
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