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Shear-driven Instability

Shear-Driven Instability is a type of plasma instability arising from velocity shear in the plasma flow, where spatial variations in the flow velocity exceed a critical threshold that destabilizes the system through energy transfer from the mean flow to perturbations.

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A powerful local shear instability in weakly magnetized disks. I - Linear analysis. II - Nonlinear evolution

Steven A. Balbus, John F. Hawley · The Astrophysical Journal · 1991 · 4.5K citations

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Adiabatic shear instability based mechanism for particles/substrate bonding in the cold-gas dynamic-spray process

M. Grujičić, Changtai Zhao, W.S DeRosset et al. · Materials & Design (1980-2015) · 2004 · 765 citations

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On spray formation

Philippe Marmottant, Emmanuel Villermaux · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 2004 · 667 citations

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Linear and non-linear evolution of the vertical shear instability in accretion discs

Richard P. Nelson, Oliver Gressel, O. M. Umurhan · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2013 · 440 citations · Full text

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Wave-induced shear instability in the summer thermocline

Jeremy Woods · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1968 · 379 citations

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  1. GG
    G. Ganguli

    United States Naval Research Laboratory, United States

    11 publications · 329 citations

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  2. WE
    W. E. Amatucci

    United States Naval Research Laboratory, United States

    6 publications · 192 citations

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  3. PN
    P. N. Guzdar

    University of Maryland, College Park, United States

    6 publications · 368 citations

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  4. ET
    Edward Thomas

    Auburn University, United States

    6 publications · 123 citations

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  5. HS
    H. Saleem

    Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology, Pakistan

    5 publications · 121 citations

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  1. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    Princeton, United States

    15 h-index

    67 publications

    5.8K citations

  2. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    15 h-index

    46 publications

    3.5K citations

  3. United States Naval Research Laboratory

    Washington, United States

    14 h-index

    34 publications

    1.2K citations

  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    12 h-index

    35 publications

    1.4K citations

  5. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    11 h-index

    38 publications

    1.9K citations

  6. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    11 h-index

    16 publications

    1.2K citations

  7. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    10 h-index

    17 publications

    1.1K citations

  8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    9 h-index

    17 publications

    586 citations

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  1. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 29 publications · 1.6K citations

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  2. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 30 publications · 2.1K citations

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  3. Physics of Plasmas

    47 publications · 1.3K citations

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  4. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 22 publications · 6.2K citations

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  5. The Physics of Fluids

    23 publications · 1K citations

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