Kink oscillation
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A kink oscillation is a class of MHD instabilities which sometimes develop in a thin plasma column carrying a strong axial current.
If a kink begins to develop in a column the magnetic forces on the inside of the kink become larger than those on the outside, which leads to growth of the perturbation. [1]
