Stratified Resistive Tearing Instability

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Stratified Resistive Tearing Instability
المؤلفون: Hopper, Scott J., Wood, Toby S., Bushby, Paul J.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Mathematics
Astrophysics
Mathematical Physics
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Fluid Dynamics, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Mathematical Physics, Physics - Plasma Physics, Physics - Space Physics
الوصف: Resistive tearing instabilities are common in fluids that are highly electrically conductive and carry strong currents. We determine the effect of stable stratification on the tearing instability under the Boussinesq approximation. Our results generalise previous work that considered only specific parameter regimes, and we show that the length scale of the fastest growing mode depends non-monotonically on the stratification strength. We confirm our analytical results by solving the linearised equations numerically, and we discuss whether the instability could operate in the solar tachocline.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13210
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2408.13210
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv