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Instability

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Instability in systems is generally characterized by some of the outputs or internal states growing without bounds. Not all systems that are not stable are unstable; systems can also be marginally stable or exhibit limit cycle behavior.

In control theory, a system is unstable if any of the roots of its characteristic equation has real part greater than zero. This is equivalent to any of the eigenvalues of the state matrix having real part greater than zero.

In structural engineering, a structure can become unstable when excessive load is applied. Beyond a certain threshold, structural deflections magnify stresses, which in turn increases deflections. This can take the form of buckling or crippling. The general field of study is called structural stability.

Fluid instabilities

Fluid instabilities occur in liquids, gases and plasmas, and are often characterized by the shape that form; they are studied in fluid dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics. Fluid instabilities include:

Ballooning mode instability (some analogy to the Rayleigh–Taylor instability); found in the magnetosphere
Atmospheric instability

Hydrodynamic instability or dynamic instability (atmospheric dynamics)

Inertial instability; baroclinic instability; symmetric instability, conditional symmetric or convective symmetric instability; barotropic instability; Helmholtz or shearing instability; rotational instability

Hydrostatic instability or static instability/vertical instability (parcel instability), thermodynamic instability (atmospheric thermodynamics)

Conditional or static instability, buoyant instability, latent instability, nonlocal static instability, conditional-symmetric instability; convective, potential, or thermal instability, convective instability of the first and second kind; absolute or mechanical instability

Bénard instability
Drift mirror instability
Kelvin–Helmholtz instability (similar, but different from the diocotron instability in plasmas)
Rayleigh–Taylor instability
Plateau-Rayleigh instability (similar to the Rayleigh–Taylor instability)
Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (similar to the Rayleigh–Taylor instability)

Plasma instabilities

Plasma instabilities can be divided into two general groups (1) hydrodynamic instabilities (2) kinetic instabilities. Plasma instabilities are also categorised into different modes:

Mode (azimuthal wave number)	Note	Description	Radial modes	Description
m=0		Sausage instability: displays harmonic variations of beam radius with distance along the beam axis	n=0	Axial hollowing
			n=1	Standard sausaging
			n=2	Axial bunching
m=1		Sinuous, kink or hose instability: represents transverse displacements of the beam cross-section without change in the form or in a beam characteristics other than the position of its center of mass
m=2	Filamentation modes: growth leads towards the breakup of the beam into separate filaments.	Gives an elliptic cross-section
m=3		Gives a pyriform (pear-shaped) cross-section

Source: Andre Gsponer, " Physics of high-intensity high-energy particle beam propagation in open air and outer-space plasmas" (2004)

List of plasma instabilities

Bennett pinch instability (also called the z-pinch instability )
Beam acoustic instability
Bump-in-tail instability
Buneman instability, (same as Farley-Buneman instability?)
Cherenkov instability,
Chute instability
Coalescence instability,
Collapse instability
Counter-streaming instability
Cyclotron instabilities, including:

*Alfven cyclotron instability

*Electron cyclotron instability

*Electrostatic ion cyclotron Instability

*Ion cyclotron instability

*Magnetoacoustic cyclotron instability

*Proton cyclotron instability

*Nonresonant Beam-Type cyclotron instability

*Relativistic ion cyclotron instability

*Whistler cyclotron instability

Diocotron instability, (similar to the Kelvin-Helmholtz fluid instability).
Disruptive instability (in tokamaks)
Double emission instability
Drift wave instability
Edge-localised modes
Farley-Buneman instability
Fan instability
Filamentation instability
Firehose instability (also called Hose instability)

Flute instability
Free electron maser instability
Gyrotron instability
Helical instability (helix instability)
Helical kink instability
Hose instability (also called Firehose instability)
Interchange instability
Ion beam instability
Kink instability
Lower hybrid (drift) instability (in the Critical ionization velocity mechanism)
Magnetic drift instability
Magnetic buoyancy instability (Parker instability)
Modulation instability
Non-Abelian instability (see also Chromo-Weibel Instability)
Chromo-Weibel Instability
Non-linear coalescence instability
Oscillating two stream instability, see two stream instability
Pair instability
Parker instability (magnetic buoyancy instability)
Peratt instability (stacked toroids)
Pinch instability
Sausage instability
Slow Drift Instability
Tearing mode instability
Two stream instability
Weak beam instability
Weibel instability
z-pinch instability, also called Bennett pinch instability

Notes

External links

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