Alfén waves in a thermally stratified fluid
作者:
E.N. Parker,
期刊:
Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
(Taylor Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 29,
issue 1-4
页码: 1-12
ISSN:0309-1929
年代: 1984
DOI:10.1080/03091928408248179
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
The propagation of Alfvén waves along a uniform horizontal field in a highly conducting incompressible fluid, subject to the convective forces produced by a uniform vertical temperature gradient, is treated in a Boussinesq approximation. It is shown that there are exact solutions with large amplitude but restricted form. Their restricted form means that an arbitrary disturbing force produces other motions as well as Alfvén waves. An arbitrary initial disturbance of small amplitude produces waves whose state of polarization varies along the direction of propagation. For large amplitudes, however, any mixtures of polarization states causes scattering into new modes.
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