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Plasma instabilities


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  • Research AreasNonlinear phenomena in plasmasPlasma instabilities
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  • Nonlinear phenomena in plasmas
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  • Edge localized mode
  • Magnetic reconnection
  • Plasma macroinstabilities
    • Ballooning instability
    • Filamentation in plasmas
    • Fire-hose instability
    • Hydrodynamic instabilities
    • Hydromagnetic instability
    • Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
    • Kink instability
    • Mirror instability
    • Rayleigh-Taylor instability
    • Resistive wall modes
    • Tearing instability
    • Weibel instability
  • Plasma microinstabilities
    • Beam-plasma instability
    • Buneman instability
    • Drift, ion- or electron-cyclotron instability
    • Electron driven instability
    • Ion-acoustic instability
    • Loss-cone instability
    • Two-stream instability
  • Shock waves & discontinuities in plasma
    • Collisionless shock in plasma
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