Nonlinear Alfven waves in a plasma with a finite conductivity

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Feb 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981ap%26ss..74..491g&link_type=abstract

Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 74, no. 2, Feb. 1981, p. 491-495.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Plasma Conductivity, Plasma Oscillations, Plasma Turbulence, Wave Propagation, Electrical Resistivity, Energy Dissipation, Magnetosonic Resonance, Type 4 Bursts

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A theoretical study is presented of the propagation of nonlinear Alfven waves in a turbulent plasma with large but finite conductivity. The Alfven wave in such a medium is governed by the diffusion equation. It is shown that an initial periodic perturbation (for a constant magnetic field strength) while still being incompressive decays due to dissipation. The study indicates that the origin of type IV bursts is a magnetosonic wave, which, although accompanied by an Alfven wave, forms the shock wave in time intervals much longer than the time of Alfven wave decay.

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