Phase mixing in the continuous spectrum of Alfvén waves
- 1 March 1978
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 21 (3) , 516-518
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.862253
Abstract
The predicted damping of Alfvén waves in a nonuniform plasma is observed in a magnetohydrodynamic computer calculation. The results are interpreted in terms of a simple model of independent oscillators.Keywords
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