Resonant Wave-Wave Interactions of Electromagnetic and Electrostatic Waves in a Homogeneous Magnetized Plasma

1989 ◽  
Vol 58 (8) ◽  
pp. 2794-2804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reiji Sugaya
1996 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Sugaya

The momentum-space diffusion equation and the kinetic wave equation for resonant wave–wave scattering of electromagnetic and electrostatic waves in a relativistic magnetized plasma are derived from the relativistic Vlasov–Maxwell equations by perturbation theory. The p-dependent diffusion coefficient and the nonlinear wave—wave coupling coefficient are given in terms of third-order tensors which are amenable to analysis. The transport equations describing energy and momentum transfer between waves and particles are obtained by momentum-space integration of the momentum-space diffusion equation, and are expressed in terms of the nonlinear wave—wave coupling coefficient in the kinetic wave equation. The conservation laws for the total energy and momentum densities of waves and particles are verified from the kinetic wave equation and the transport equations. These equations are very useful for the theoretical analysis of transport phenomena or the acceleration and generation of high-energy or relativistic particles caused by quasi-linear and resonant wave—wave scattering processes.


2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 1007-1010 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Brodin ◽  
L. Stenflo

Abstract. We reconsider the nonlinear resonant interaction between three electrostatic waves in a magnetized plasma. The general coupling coefficients derived from kinetic theory are reduced here to the low-frequency limit. The main contribution to the coupling coefficient we find in this way agrees with the coefficient recently presented in Annales Geophysicae. But we also deduce another contribution which sometimes can be important, and which qualitatively agrees with that of an even more recent paper. We have thus demonstrated how results derived from fluid theory can be improved and generalized by means of kinetic theory. Possible extensions of our results are outlined.


1988 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 357-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Grimshaw

Resonant interactions between triads of internal gravity waves propagating in a shear flow are considered for the case when the stratification and the background shear flow vary slowly with respect to typical wavelengths. If ωn, kn(n = 1, 2, 3) are the local frequencies and wavenumbers respectively then the resonance conditions are that ω1 + ω2 + ω3 = 0 and k1 + k2 + k3 = 0. If the medium is only weakly inhomogeneous, then there is a strong resonance and to leading order the resonance conditions are satisfied globally. The equations governing the wave amplitudes are then well known, and have been extensively discussed in the literature. However, if the medium is strongly inhomogeneous, then there is a weak resonance and the resonance conditions can only be satisfied locally on certain space-time resonance surfaces. The equations governing the wave amplitudes in this case are derived, and discussed briefly. Then the results are applied to a study of the hierarchy of wave interactions which can occur near a critical level, with the aim of determining to what extent a critical layer can reflect wave energy.


1979 ◽  
Vol 50 (11) ◽  
pp. 6811-6816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sinan Bilikmen ◽  
Joseph E. Willett

2019 ◽  
Vol 76 (12) ◽  
pp. 3831-3846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos F. M. Raupp ◽  
André S. W. Teruya ◽  
Pedro L. Silva Dias

Abstract Here the theory of global nonhydrostatic normal modes has been further developed with the analysis of both linear and weakly nonlinear energetics of inertia–acoustic (IA) and inertia–gravity (IG) modes. These energetics are analyzed in the context of a shallow global nonhydrostatic model governing finite-amplitude perturbations around a resting, hydrostatic, and isothermal background state. For the linear case, the energy as a function of the zonal wavenumber of the IA and IG modes is analyzed, and the nonhydrostatic effect of vertical acceleration on the IG waves is highlighted. For the nonlinear energetics analysis, the reduced equations of a single resonant wave triad interaction are obtained by using a pseudoenergy orthogonality relation. Integration of the triad equations for a resonance involving a short harmonic of an IG wave, a planetary-scale IA mode, and a short IA wave mode shows that an IG mode can allow two IA modes to exchange energy in specific resonant triads. These wave interactions can yield significant modulations in the dynamical fields associated with the physical-space solution with periods varying from a daily time scale to almost a month long.


1994 ◽  
Vol 269 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Grimshaw

Resonant interactions between internal gravity waves propagating in a stratified shear flow are considered for the case when the background density and shear flow vary slowly with respect to the waves. In Grimshaw (1988) triad resonances were considered, and interaction equations derived for the case when the resonance conditions are met only on certain space-time surfaces, being resonance sites. Here this analysis is extended to include higher-order resonances, with the aim of studying resonant wave interactions near a critical level. It is shown that a secondary resonant interaction between two incoming waves, in which two harmonic components of one incoming wave interact with a single harmonic component of another incoming wave, produces a reflected wave. This result is shown to agree with the study of Brown & Stewartson (1980, 1982a, b) who obtained this same result by a different approach.


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