An asymptotic method for non-linear magnetosonic waves in an isothermal plasma with a finite conductivity

DOI10.1017/S0308210500011410zbMath0423.76090MaRDI QIDQ3857943

Domenico Fusco

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic methodsemilinear heat equationfinite conductivitywavefrontmagnetohydrodynamic equationsisothermal plasmaBurgers' type equationexpansion for a small magnetic Reynolds numbernon-linear magnetosonic wavessolvable eigenvalue problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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Cites Work

• Application of the Burgers' equation with a variable coefficient to the study of nonplanar wave transients
• Ondes asymptotiques non linéaires
• Theory of non-linear wave propagation with application to the interaction and inverse problems
• Nonlinear Dispersive or Dissipative Waves in Inhomogeneous Media
• Ray method for nonlinear wave propagation in a rotating fluid of variable depth

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