Resistive drift-Alfvén waves in sheared magnetic fields
Abstract
A new class of resistive drift-Alfvén modes is discovered. The new modes are believed to be the generalization of shear-Alfvén waves to sheared magnetic fields. In addition, the finite β (plasma over magnetic pressure) corrections to the electrostatic dissipative drift wave are evaluated.
- Publication:
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Physics of Fluids
- Pub Date:
- July 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.862730
- Bibcode:
- 1979PhFl...22.1284C
- Keywords:
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- Magnetohydrodynamic Waves;
- Reactor Physics;
- Tokamak Devices;
- Differential Equations;
- Eigenvalues;
- Electrostatic Waves;
- Plasma Control;
- Plasma Physics