Ion acceleration by parallel propagating nonlinear Alfvén wave packets in a radially expanding plasma
The numerical simulation of the nonlinear evolution of the parallel propagating Alfvén waves in a radially expanding plasma is performed by using a kinetic-fluid model (the Vlasov–MHD model). In our study, both the nonlinear evolution of the Alfvén waves and the radial evolution of the velocity dist...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2014-02-01
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Series: | Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics |
Online Access: | http://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/21/339/2014/npg-21-339-2014.pdf |