Viscous Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in highly ionised plasmas
(2013)
Journal Article
Roediger, E., Kraft, R. P., Nulsen, P., Churazov, E., Forman, W., Brüggen, M., & Kokotanekova, R. (2013). Viscous Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in highly ionised plasmas. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 436(2), 1721-1740. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1691
Transport coefficients in highly ionised plasmas like the intra-cluster medium (ICM) are still ill-constrained. They influence various processes, among them the mixing at shear flow interfaces due to the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI). The observ... Read More about Viscous Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in highly ionised plasmas.