Ion-acoustic wave induced convective cells
Abstract
It is shown that a finite-amplitude ion-acoustic wave in a uniform magneto- plasma can enhance two-dimensional plasma vortices. The latter results from a modulational instability. The growth rates are obtained analytically.
- Publication:
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Journal of Plasma Physics
- Pub Date:
- June 1981
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1981JPlPh..25..451S
- Keywords:
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- Convective Flow;
- Ion Acoustic Waves;
- Magnetic Fields;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Plasma Diffusion;
- Plasma Heating;
- Amplitude Modulation;
- Beta Factor;
- Crossed Fields;
- Electrostatic Waves;
- Landau Damping;
- Wave Interaction;
- Plasma Physics