Solitons in a Convective Motion of a Low-β Plasma
Abstract
In the present paper it is shown that solitons are formed and propagate in a convective motion of a low-β plasma in the presence of a weak static electric field normal to an applied magnetic field. The theory is based on a model equation of Hasegawa and Mima and also on the two-dimensional ion-fluid equation with a Boltzmann distribution from which the model equation is derived, both of which are reduced to the Korteweg-de Vries equation.
- Publication:
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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
- Pub Date:
- March 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1143/JPSJ.46.983
- Bibcode:
- 1979JPSJ...46..983N
- Keywords:
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- Convective Flow;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Flow;
- Plasma Waves;
- Solitary Waves;
- Vortices;
- Electric Fields;
- Inhomogeneity;
- Korteweg-Devries Equation;
- Magnetic Fields;
- Shear Flow;
- Plasma Physics