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Plasma Physics

Kink & Sausage Instabilities

Ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) macro-instabilities occurring in current-carrying pinched plasma columns.

m = 0 (Sausage Mode), m = 1 (Kink Mode) MHD Instability Modes