Relativistic velocity shear driven instability in EMHD
Velocity shear driven instability is critical for fast-ignition scenarios. At fast time scales, this velocity shear driven Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) like instability has been investigated for non- relativistic electron fluids in past in considerable detail with the help of the Electron Magneto Hydrodynamic (EMHD) model. The present talk provides a simple generalization of the EMHD model to the relativistic regime in 2-D. Even in the relativistic regime by confining to phenomena occurring at time scales slower than the plasma period the density perturbations can be neglected. This leads to a simplified incompressible relativistic fluid model for electron motion in 2-D. It is observed that the usual normal KH like unstable mode gets modified due to the shear in the relativistic mass factor associated with the equilibrium velocity flow.
