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Sheared-flow-driven vortices in a magnetized dusty electron–positron plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 May 2001

P. K. SHUKLA
Affiliation:
Institut für Theoretische Physik IV, Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
T. FARID
Affiliation:
Institut für Theoretische Physik IV, Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
L. STENFLO
Affiliation:
Department of Plasma Physics, Umeå University, S-90187 Umeå, Sweden
O. G. ONISHCHENKO
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics of the Earth, 123810 Moscow, Russia
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It is shown that sheared plasma flows can generate nonthermal electrostatic waves in a magnetized dusty electron–positron plasma. Linearly excited modes attain large amplitudes and start interacting among themselves. Nonlinearly coupled modes self-organize in the form of coherent vortices comprising a vortex chain and a double vortex. Conditions under which the latter appear are given. The relevance of our investigation to space, astrophysical, and laboratory plasmas is pointed out.

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© 2000 Cambridge University Press