Journal of Plasma Physics

Table of Contents - 1981 - Volume 25, Issue 03  

Articles

Ion-acoustic wave induced convective cells

P. K. Shuklaa1 and M. Y. Yua1

a1 Institut für Theoretisehe Physik Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 4630 Bochum 1 Federal Republic of Germany

It is shown that a finite-amplitude ion-acoustic wave in a uniform magneto- plasma can enhance two-dimensional plasma vortices. The latter results from a modulational instability. The growth rates are obtained analytically.

(Received October 20 1980)