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Alfvénic drift Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the presence of an equilibrium electric field

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Alfvénic drift Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is discussed in the presence of equilibrium electric and magnetic fields which are perpendicular to each other. A dispersion relation is achieved with the help of WKB approximation and the instability criterion is established. A comparison is made with the previous studies and it is shown that the electric field has a stabilizing or destabilizing effect on the system according to the conditions discussed in the text.

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  1. Krishna M. Srivastava

    Present address: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, California, USA

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India

    Avadhesh C. Sharma & Krishna M. Srivastava

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Sharma, A.C., Srivastava, K.M. Alfvénic drift Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the presence of an equilibrium electric field. Astrophys Space Sci 197, 145–151 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00645078

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