Solitary kinetic Alfvén waves on the ion‐acoustic velocity branch in a low‐β plasma

1996 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 4304-4306 ◽  
Author(s):  
De‐Jin Wu ◽  
De‐Yu Wang
1994 ◽  
Vol 21 (17) ◽  
pp. 1831-1834 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.-E. Wahlund ◽  
P. Louarn ◽  
T. Chust ◽  
H. de Feraudy ◽  
A. Roux ◽  
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1994 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Ghosh ◽  
K. P. Das

Starting from a set of equations that lead to a linear dispersion relation coupling kinetic Alfvén waves and ion-acoustic waves, three-dimensional KdV equations are derived for these waves. These equations are then used to investigate the three-dimensional stability of solitary kinetic Alfvén waves and ion-acoustic waves by the small-k perturbation expansion method of Rowlands and Infeld. For kinetic Alfvén waves it is found that there is instability if the direction of the plane-wave perturbation lies inside a cone, and the growth rate of the instability attains a maximum when the direction of the perturbation lies in the plane containing the external magnetic field and the direction of propagation of the solitary wave.


2018 ◽  
Vol 123 (8) ◽  
pp. 6655-6669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongtao Huang ◽  
Yiqun Yu ◽  
Lei Dai ◽  
Tieyan Wang

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