Journal article
Observation of the Taylor instability in a dusty plasma
Physics of plasmas, Vol.19(1), pp.014501-014501-3
01/05/2012
DOI: 10.1063/1.3671971
Abstract
Observations of the Taylor instability in a laboratory dusty plasma are presented. The dust cloud, formed in a dc argon glow-discharge plasma, is stratified into regions of high and low dust densities. The instability was triggered by a spontaneous intrusion of the low density dust fluid into the high density dust fluid at the interface. The instability in the dust fluid was phenomenologically similar to the hydrodynamic Taylor instability that occurs when a light fluid is accelerated into a heavy fluid.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Observation of the Taylor instability in a dusty plasma
- Creators
- K Pacha - University of IowaJ Heinrich - University of IowaS.-H Kim - University of IowaR Merlino - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Physics of plasmas, Vol.19(1), pp.014501-014501-3
- Publisher
- American Institute of Physics
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.3671971
- ISSN
- 1070-664X
- eISSN
- 1089-7674
- Grant note
- DE-FG01-04ER54795 / UNSPECIFIED
- Date published
- 01/05/2012
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984199732302771
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