Landau-fluid simulations of Alfvén-wave instabilities in a warm collisionless plasma
A dispersive Landau-fluid model is used to study the decay and modulational instabilities of circularly-polarized Alfvén waves in a collisionless plasma, as well as their nonlinear developments. Comparisons are presented with the drift-kinetic approximation for the dispersionless regime and...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2004-01-01
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| Series: | Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics |
| Online Access: | http://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/11/609/2004/npg-11-609-2004.pdf |