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Two-dimensional shear Alfvén-wave turbulence in a plasma with arbitrary β

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

G. Brodin
Affiliation:
Department of Plasma Physics, Umeå University, S-901 87 Uineå, Sweden

Abstract

Two-dimensional shear Alfvén-wave turbulence is investigated for a plasma with arbitrary β value. A set of three equations, which reduces to the derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the limit of parallel propagation, is derived. The genuinely two-dimensional case is governed by two coupled equations. For a non-parallel one-dimensional space dependence, the nonlinearity is shown to vanish to all orders.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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