Min-Uk Lee

A closed-form framework for predicting complex dispersion relations and instability growth rates in magnetized plasmas

We develop an explicit closed-form formulation for fluid plasma instabilities in magnetic-field geometries for near-bi-Maxwellian plasmas. Starting from the continuity, momentum, and anisotropic pressure equations, we derive a generalized closed-form expression for the imaginary part of the frequency, expressed in term...