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Chaturvedi & Ossakow 1977
Chaturvedi, P.K. and Ossakow, S.L. (1977). Nonlinear theory of the collisional Rayleigh-Taylor instability in equatorial spread F. Geophysical Research Letters 4: doi: 10.1029/GL004i012p00558. issn: 0094-8276.

The nonlinear behavior of the collisional Rayleigh-Taylor instability is studied in equatorial Spread F by including a dominant two-dimensional nonlinearity. It is found that on account of this nonlinearity the instability saturates by generating damped higher spatial harmonics. The saturated power spectrum for the density fluctuations is discussed. A comparison between experimental observations and theory is presented.

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