Comments on the dissipation of hydromagnetic surface waves

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Sep 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980apj...240..693l&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 240, Sept. 1, 1980, p. 693-695.

Physics

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Electromagnetic Surface Waves, Energy Dissipation, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Plasma Heating, Solar Corona, Adiabatic Conditions, Kinetic Heating, Solar Physics

Scientific paper

A recent paper by Wentzel, which claims to calculate a plasma heating rate due to dissipation of surface waves in an ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluid, is found to be in error in interpretation. A well-established general theorem pertaining to the conservative ideal MHD fluid requires that the normal mode calculated by Wentzel be oscillatory in time. Within ideal MHD, dissipation and plasma heating are therefore impossible.

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