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Nonlinear excitation of slow shear Alfvén mode by electromagnetic waves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

H. Saleem
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Abstract

Nonlinear decay of large-amplitude ordinary and extraordinary electromagnetic waves into an electrostatic upper-hybrid wave and a slow shear Alfvén wave in a low-β plasma is considered. Expressions for the growth rates and thresholds are obtained. Applications of this investigation to both space and laboratory plasmas are pointed out.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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