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Hydromagnetic wave propagation and the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in an arbitrary-β collisional inhomogeneous plasma

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The instability of an inhomogeneous arbitrary-β plasma occurring due to the transverse velocity shear, has been studied to analyse the effects of collisional thermal transfer. The dissipation of hydromagnetic waves in such a plasma has also been discussed. It has been found that the thermal forces modify the instability criteria in several limiting cases. Numerical solutions have also been obtained to investigate the effects of various physical parameters for a non-isothermal plasma with different adiabticity of two species, viz., electrons and ions.

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

    Krishna M. Srivastava

  2. Department of Physics, University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India

    Raghvendra Singh

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Srivastava, K.M., Singh, R. Hydromagnetic wave propagation and the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in an arbitrary-β collisional inhomogeneous plasma. Astrophys Space Sci 79, 37–54 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00655903

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