Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992phflb...4...13m&link_type=abstract
Physics of Fluids B (ISSN 0899-8221), vol. 4, Jan. 1992, p. 13-18. Research supported by NASA.
Physics
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Klein-Gordon Equation, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Nonuniform Plasmas, Wave Reflection, Analytic Functions, Cartesian Coordinates, Critical Frequencies, Frequency Distribution, Wave Equations
Scientific paper
A new analytical approach is presented for assessing the reflection of linear Alfven waves in smoothly nonuniform media. The general one-dimensional case in Cartesian coordinates is treated. It is shown that the wave equations, upon transformation into the form of the Klein-Gordon equation, display a local critical frequency for reflection. At any location in the medium, reflection becomes strong as the wave frequency descends past this characteristic frequency set by the local nonuniformity of the medium. This critical frequecy is given by the transformation as an explicit function of the Alfven velocity and its first and second derivatives, and hence as an explicit spatial function. The transformation thus directly yields, without solution of the wave equations, the location in the medium at which an Alfven wave of any given frequency becomes strongly reflected and has its propagation practically cut off.
Fontenla Juan Manuel
Moore Robert L.
Musielak Zdzislaw E.
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