diocotron instabilities

A form of diocotron instability — A plasma instability created by two sheets of charge slipping past each other, in which energy is dissipated in the form of two surface waves propagating in opposite directions, one flowing over the other.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of diocotron instability
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