luizfillip / rayleigh-taylor

Compute Rayleigh Taylor Instability growth rates and integrated quantities along a field line

Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (Data analysis)

This repository aims to prepare geophysical data for compute Rayleigh-Taylor growth rates

Theory background

This is a well-known result for collisional interchange instability (also referred to as generalized Rayleigh-Taylor instability) that includes not only the effects of gravity and ambient electric field but also those ofboth the zonal and the vertical components of the neutral wind velocity [see, Basu, 2002

$$ \gamma_{RT} = \frac{\tilde{\Sigma}{P, 0}^F}{\tilde{\Sigma}{P, 0}^E + \tilde{\Sigma}{P, 0}^F} \left(V_z - U_L^P - \frac{g_e}{\nu{eff}^F}\right) K^F - R$$

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Integrated neutral winds

Compute neutral winds integrated along field lines and see your effect on RTI growth rate

Plotting neutral and iono parameters