Review Article

Modeling Kelvin–Helmholtz Instability in Soft X-Ray Solar Jets

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(a) Dispersion curves of stable and unstable kink () MHD mode propagating in a moving untwisted magnetic flux tube of compressible plasma (modeling jet #11) at and . Unstable dispersion curves located above the middle of the plot have been calculated for four values of the Alfvén Mach number , , , and . (b) The normalized growth rates of the unstable mode for the same values of . Red curves in both plots correspond to the onset of KH instability.
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