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Finite Larmor radius effects on the stability of a stratified plasma

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The hydromagnetic stability of a cosmical plasma interacting with neutral gas has been studied to include the effects of ion viscosity and the finiteness of the ion Larmor radius. It is first shown that the system is characterized by a variational principle. The explicit solution has then been obtained, by making use of the existence of the variational principle, for a semi-infinite plasma in which the density is stratified, exponentially, along the vertical. It is found that FLR, ion viscosity as well as neutral gas friction have all a stabilizing influence.

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Bhatia, P.K. Finite Larmor radius effects on the stability of a stratified plasma. Astrophys Space Sci 23, 275–284 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00645157

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