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部分电离可压缩等离子体中的Kelvin-Helmholtz不稳定性

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in partially ionized compressible plasmas

R. Soler, A. J. Diaz, J. L. Ballester, M. Goossens

摘要:

开尔文-亥姆霍兹不稳定性(Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability,KHI)是在太阳大气中观测到的。离子-中性碰撞可能对太阳部分电离等离子体中KHI的生长速率和演化起相关作用,例如,太阳辐射在这里,我们调查的线性相位的KHI在两个部分电离的磁化等离子体之间的界面处的剪切流的存在下。分析中考虑了离子中性碰撞和可压缩性的影响。我们得到的线性模式的色散关系,并进行参数研究的不稳定的解决方案。我们发现,在不可压缩的情况下,KHI是目前的任何速度剪切的碰撞频率的值无关。在可压缩情况下,不稳定区域强烈地依赖于等离子体参数,特别是碰撞频率和密度衬度。对于高碰撞频率和低密度对比度的KHI是本超Alfvenic速度剪切。对于高密度对比,阈值速度剪切可以降低到亚阿尔文值。对于特定的情况下,湍流羽流的双折射,我们得出结论,亚Alfvenic流速可以触发KHI由于离子中性耦合。

英文摘要:

The Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability (KHI) has been observed in the solar atmosphere. Ion-neutral collisions may play a relevant role for the growth rate and evolution of the KHI in solar partially ionized plasmas as in, e.g., solar prominences. Here, we investigate the linear phase of the KHI at an interface between two partially ionized magnetized plasmas in the presence of a shear flow. The effects of ion-neutral collisions and compressibility are included in the analysis. We obtain the dispersion relation of the linear modes and perform parametric studies of the unstable solutions. We find that in the incompressible case the KHI is present for any velocity shear regardless the value of the collision frequency. In the compressible case, the domain of instability depends strongly on the plasma parameters, specially the collision frequency and the density contrast. For high collision frequencies and low density contrasts the KHI is present for super-Alfvenic velocity shear only. For high density contrasts the threshold velocity shear can be reduced to sub-Alfvenic values. For the particular case of turbulent plumes in prominences, we conclude that sub-Alfvenic flow velocities can trigger the KHI thanks to the ion-neutral coupling.

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