• The two-stream instability is a very common instability in plasma physics. It can be induced by an energetic particle stream injected in a plasma, or setting...
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  • instability. It occurs in collisional plasma with neutral component, and is driven by drift currents. It can be thought of as a modified two-stream instability...
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  • isotropy. In very extreme cases, the Weibel instability is related to one- or two-dimensional stream instabilities. Consider an electron-ion plasma in which...
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  • dynamics, the Plateau–Rayleigh instability, often just called the Rayleigh instability, explains why and how a falling stream of fluid breaks up into smaller...
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    instability) Rotating instability, Tearing mode instability (or resistive tearing instability) Two-stream instability (a.k.a. beam-plasma instability...
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  • or a velocity difference across the interface between two fluids. Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities are visible in the atmospheres of planets and moons, such...
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    Rayleigh–Taylor instability, or RT instability (after Lord Rayleigh and G. I. Taylor), is an instability of an interface between two fluids of different...
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  • Buti returned to India and took up a teaching role at Delhi University. Two years later, she went back to the US to work at Goddard Space Flight Center...
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    -30.000, it splits in two, with the northern stream, the North Atlantic Drift, crossing to Northern Europe and the southern stream, the Canary Current,...
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  • numerical simulations for two- and three-dimensional cases, and are believed to be produced by the two-stream instability. They have been observed as...
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