Abstract
The stability of a magnetized inhomogeneous plasma with transverse inhomogeneous electric field is analyzed by using a kinetic formalism. It is found that for a smooth profile of the flow velocity, drift and ion-cyclotron waves are damped due to resonant interaction with ions. On the other hand, drift and drift-cyclotron kinetic instabilities modified by shear flow are excited by inverse electron Landau damping. A renormalized nonlinear dispersion equation, which accounts for random scattering of ions in the presence of the inhomogeneous transverse shear flow, is derived and applied to determine the saturation level of the drift-cyclotron instability in a plasma with transverse shear flow.
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