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Nonlinear electrostatic drift Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

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Nonlinear analysis of electrostatic drift Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is performed. It is shown that the analysis leads to the propagation of the weakly nonlinear dispersive waves and the nonlinear behaviour is governed by the nonlinear Burger's equation.

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

    Avadhesh C. Sharma

  2. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

    Krishna M. Srivastava

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Sharma, A.C., Srivastava, K.M. Nonlinear electrostatic drift Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Astrophys Space Sci 200, 107–116 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00658114

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