Plasma Flow and a Soliton in a Theta Pinch
Abstract
The present paper deals with a weakly nonlinear wave propagating along a slender magnetized plasma of high β and shows that a compressive area-wave as well as a rarefaction wave propagates into the plasma due to the mirror effect. The steepening of the compression wave is balanced with a dispersion caused by a radial motion and a solitary wave is formed.
- Publication:
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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
- Pub Date:
- March 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1143/JPSJ.46.970
- Bibcode:
- 1979JPSJ...46..970N
- Keywords:
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- Magnetohydrodynamic Flow;
- Plasma Waves;
- Solitary Waves;
- Theta Pinch;
- Wave Propagation;
- Compression Waves;
- Elastic Waves;
- Propagation Modes;
- Wave Equations;
- Plasma Physics