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通过部分电离等离子体的热不稳定性的小结构。I.冷凝模式

Small Structures via Thermal Instability of Partially Ionized Plasma. I. Condensation Mode

Tsubasa Fukue, Hideyuki Kamaya

摘要:

用线性微扰分析方法研究了部分电离等离子体的热不稳定性。根据以前的研究在一个流体的方法,热不稳定性被抑制,由于磁压力。然而,以往的研究没有将流动视为由离子和中性粒子组成的两种流体,没有精确地考虑离子-中性粒子摩擦的影响。在此基础上,我们讨论了两种流体的离子-中性摩擦对热不稳定性增长的影响。根据我们的研究,(1)只有当磁场和摩擦足够强时,中性粒子的平均分子量才能通过离子-中性粒子摩擦抑制不稳定性。由于摩擦而产生的抑制甚至沿磁力线发生。如果磁场和摩擦力不是很强,不稳定性就不稳定。(2)摩擦和磁场的作用主要是降低了弱电离等离子体热不稳定性的增长率。(3)摩擦的影响不影响热不稳定性的临界波长λ F。由此,即使在存在磁场的情况下,弱电离等离子体的Δ F也不会增大。我们坚持认为,弱电离等离子体在磁场中的热不稳定性即使在小尺度下也会增长,而在单流体等离子体假设下的不稳定性由于磁场的稳定性而不会增长。(4)由于摩擦在较大尺度上是有效的,不稳定性增长率的最大值波长随增长率的减小而缩短。因此,预计会出现比没有离子中性摩擦的结构更小的结构。

英文摘要:

(Shortened) Thermal instability of partially ionized plasma is investigated by linear perturbation analysis. According to the previous studies under the one fluid approach, the thermal instability is suppressed due to the magnetic pressure. However, the previous studies did not precisely consider the effect of the ion-neutral friction, since they did not treat the flow as two fluid which is composed of ions and neutrals. Then, we revisit the effect of the ion-neutral friction of the two fluid to the growth of the thermal instability. According to our study, (1) The instability which is characterized by the mean molecular weight of neutrals is suppressed via the ion-neutral friction only when the magnetic field and the friction are sufficiently strong. The suppression owing to the friction occurs even along the field line. If the magnetic field and the friction are not so strong, the instability is not stabilized. (2) The effect of the friction and the magnetic field is mainly reduction of the growth rate of the thermal instability of weakly ionized plasma. (3) The effect of friction does not affect the critical wavelength lambdaF for the thermal instability. This yields that lambdaF of the weakly ionized plasma is not enlarged even when the magnetic field exists. We insist that the thermal instability of the weakly ionized plasma in the magnetic field can grow up even at the small length scale where the instability under the assumption of the one fluid plasma can not grow owing to the stabilization by the magnetic field. (4) The wavelength of the maximum growth rate of the instability shifts shortward according to the decrement of the growth rate, because the friction is effective at rather larger scale. Therefore, smaller structures are expected to appear than those without the ion-neutral friction.

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