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Energy budget of stable magnetohydrodynamic waves in a homogeneous heat-conducting collisionless plasma in a strong magnetic field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Alejandro de la Torre
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pabellón I, Ciudad Universitaria, CP 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Abstract

The energy transfer between a homogeneous heat-conducting collisionless plasma in a strong magnetic field and a harmonic external current immersed in it is studied in connection with the generation of stable magnetohydrodynamic waves in slow streams in the solar-wind plasma. The net balance of energy, given by the sum of the individual contributions that result from the interchange between each mode of oscillation and the stream, is established as function of the amplitude, frequency and growing rate of the external current and the plasma parameters.

Type
Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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