TY - JOUR
T1 - Intermediate nonlinear evolution of the parker instability
T2 - Formation of convection-induced discontinuities and absence of finite-time singularities
AU - Zhu, P.
AU - Bhattacharjee, A.
AU - Germaschewski, K.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Direct numerical simulations of the line-tied Parker (or magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor) instability, based on the fully compressible ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations, are presented. In the intermediate nonlinear phase, the instability continues to grow exponentially in time and the plasma tends to develop convection-induced discontinuities in the form of shocklike coherent structures. No evidence of finite-time singularities is seen.
AB - Direct numerical simulations of the line-tied Parker (or magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor) instability, based on the fully compressible ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations, are presented. In the intermediate nonlinear phase, the instability continues to grow exponentially in time and the plasma tends to develop convection-induced discontinuities in the form of shocklike coherent structures. No evidence of finite-time singularities is seen.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.065001
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.065001
M3 - Article
C2 - 16606001
AN - SCOPUS:33144461922
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 96
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 6
M1 - 065001
ER -