Laboratory Studies of the Nonlinear Interactions of Kink-Unstable Flux Ropes and Shear Alfvén Waves

Stephen T Vincena1, Shreekrishna Tripathi1, Walter N Gekelman2, Timothy DeHaas2 and Patrick Pribyl3, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (2)UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States