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View SchemaInstability of Shear Waves in an Inhomogeneous Strongly Coupled Dusty Plasma
| Authors | Amruta Mishra, P. K. Kaw, A. Sen |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0103081 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0103081 |
| DOI | 10.1063/1.874183 |
| Journal | Published in Physics of Plasmas 7, 3188 (2000) |
Abstract
It is demonstrated that low frequency shear modes in a strongly coupled, inhomogeneous, dusty plasma can grow on account of an instability involving the dynamical charge fluctuations of the dust grains. The instability is driven by the gradient of the equilibrium dust charge density and is associated with the finite charging time of the dust grains. The present calculations, carried out in the generalized hydrodynamic viscoelastic formalism, also bring out important modifications in the threshold and growth rate of the instability due to collective effects associated with coupling to the compressional mode.
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