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Tripolar shear-Alfvén vortex structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1998

D. JOVANOVIĆ
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, PO Box 57, Yu-11001 Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and International Centre for Theoretical Physics, PO Box 586, 34100 Trieste, Italy
F. PEGORARO
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa, and Istituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia, Sez. A, Università di Pisa, Piazza Torricelli 2, Pisa, Italy
J. JUUL RASMUSSEN
Affiliation:
Optics and Fluid Dynamics Department, Association EURATOM–Risø National laboratory PO Box 49, DK4000 Roskilde, Denmark

Abstract

Nonlinear structures in the formof coherent tripolar vortices, associated with shear-Alfvén perturbations in the presence of both magnetic and velocity shears, are studied analytically.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
1998 Cambridge University Press

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