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A sufficient condition for the linear stability of magnetohydrodynamic equilibria with field aligned incompressible flows

Plasma Physics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

A sufficient condition for the linear stability of three dimensional equilibria with incompressible flows parallel to the magnetic field is derived. The condition involves physically interpretable terms related to the magnetic shear and the flow shear.

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@article{arxiv.0710.0064,
  title  = {A sufficient condition for the linear stability of magnetohydrodynamic equilibria with field aligned incompressible flows},
  author = {G. N. Throumoulopoulos and H. Tasso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.0064},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages