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Geometric optics in an ideal magnetohydrodynamic fluid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Ira B. Bernstein
Ira B. Bernstein
Affiliation:
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
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Abstract

The propagation of small monochromatic disturbances in a stable ideal magnetohydrodynamic fluid is treated by the method of geometric optics. The medium is trirefringent and requires six systems of rays. The problem of a point radiator is solved in the small wave-length limit where the theory holds.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , June 1971 , pp. 303 - 313
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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