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Alfvénicity of fluctuations associated with the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

Suess, S. T.; Parhi, S.

The velocity shear which exists between three layers in an ideal plasma is studied. This configuration is modeled as a jet (or, strictly speaking, a wake) embedded in a uniform medium using a magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code developed for astrophysical jet simulations. Weak and strong magnetic fields are considered both inside and outside the jet w…