A numerical study of nonlinear Alfvén waves and solitons

DOI10.1063/1.865188zbMath0607.76121OpenAlexW1980822080MaRDI QIDQ3747173

G. L. Payne, Steven R. Spangler, J. P. Sheerin

Publication date: 1985

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.865188

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear Schrödinger equationsolitonsinitial conditionstatic magnetic fieldFourier methodwave packetamplitude-modulated wavescollapse instabilityfinite-amplitude Alfvén waveshomogeneous, one-dimensional plasma

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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