On the Stability of Composite Plasma in Porous Medium

Abstract

Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a composite plasma in porous medium is considered to include the frictional effect of collisions of ionized with neutral atoms in the presence of a variable magnetic field. The system is found to be stable for stable density stratification. The magnetic field can stabilize a system which was unstable in its absence. The medium permeability has a decreasing or an increasing effect on the growth rates. With the increase in collisional frequency, the growth rates decrease but may have increasing influence in certain region.

Keywords

• Composite Plasma,, Porous Medium,, Rayleigh-Taylor Instability,, Variable Magnetic Field

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