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Magnetorotational instability in dissipative dusty plasmas

Authors :
Jintao Cao
Zhengwei Wu
Haijun Ren
Paul K. Chu
Source :
Physics of Plasmas. 16:122107
Publication Year :
2009
Publisher :
AIP Publishing, 2009.

Abstract

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) in differential rotating dusty plasmas with dissipative effects is investigated by using local linear analysis. We assume that the dust grains are heavy enough to be immobile so that the dust effects are contained in our model only by introducing an electric field term in the one-fluid equation of plasma motion. The general local dispersion relation is derived and two limiting cases are discussed with respect to the dust-induced effect. The instability criterions in the different limiting cases are presented and the growth rate of local MRI in the last case is demonstrated.

Details

ISSN :
10897674 and 1070664X
Volume :
16
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physics of Plasmas
Accession number :
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