Theory of semicollisional kinetic Alfvén modes in sheared magnetic fields

DOI10.1063/1.865347zbMath0573.76111OpenAlexW1985072057MaRDI QIDQ3691337

Liu Chen, T. S. Hahm

Publication date: 1985

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.865347

zbMATH Keywords

WKB methodasymptotic matching analysisdiamagnetic drift frequencieseigenfrequencies of the damped modesfinite ion Larmor radiussemicollisional kinetic Alfvén modessheared slab geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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