National Institutes of Natural Science, National Institute for Fusion Science
Department of Helical Plasma Research, Fundamental Physics Simulation Research Division

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Front cover of Physics of Plasmas Vol.22 Num.3.

One of figures in a paper (*) of Mr. Ryosuke Goto et al. appears in the front cover of Physics of Plasmas Vol.22 Num.3.
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Density contours in MHD simulations of Rayleigh-Taylor instability.The contours are drawn in relatively early stage of the nonlinear stage (upper panel) and fully turbulent stage (lower panel). The Rayleigh- Taylor instability has some common natures with pressure-driven instabilities in the Large Helical Device of National Institute of Fusion Science (NIFS).
These results were obtained by using "plasma simulator" in NIFS.

*Reference:
R. Goto, H. Miura, A. Ito, M. Sato and T. Hatori "Formation of large-scale structures with sharp density gradient through Rayleigh-Taylor growth in a two-dimensional slab under the two-fluid and finite Larmor radius effects" Phys. Plasmas 22, 032115 (2015)





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