Alfvén wave filamentation and dispersive phase mixing in a high-density channel: Landau fluid and hybrid simulations
The propagation of dispersive Alfvén waves in a low-beta collisionless plasma with a high-density channel aligned with the ambient magnetic field, is studied in three space dimensions. A fluid model retaining linear Landau damping and finite Larmor radius corrections is used, together with a hybrid...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2009-04-01
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| Series: | Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics |
| Online Access: | http://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/16/275/2009/npg-16-275-2009.pdf |