Modeling the dominance of the gradient drift or Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in sheared ionospheric E x B flows

C. Rathod, B. Srinivasan, W. Scales

Studies have shown that in sheared $\mathbf{E}\times \mathbf{B}$ flows in an inhomogeneous ionospheric plasma, the gradient drift (GDI) or the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KHI) instability may…