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The stability of weakly ionized D-type waves in the case of an optically thick layer of ionized gas behind the wave front

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The stability of weakly ionized D-type waves is discussed in the case of a layer of plasma behind the front of a Lyman continuum of hydrogen which is optically thick for quanta. It is shown that stable oscillations are possible. For the characteristic parameters of an interstellar gas, viscous effects may have a stabilizing influence only on shortwave perturbations with wavelength L≪L0 (L0 corresponds to neutral oscillations).

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    K. V. Krasnobaev

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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 6, pp. 12–16, November–December, 1971.

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Krasnobaev, K.V. The stability of weakly ionized D-type waves in the case of an optically thick layer of ionized gas behind the wave front. Fluid Dyn 6, 921–924 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01019795

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