Longitudinal simple waves in a plasma with anisotropic pressure
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Longitudinal simple waves in a plasma with anisotropic pressure
zbMATH Open document ID: 0733.76095
DOI: 10.1007/BF01049713
author: V. Yu. Zakharov
author: I. S. Shikin
published in: Fluid Dynamics
publication date: 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: Simple waves propagating along a magnetic-field in an anisotropic plasma are studied on the basis of a system of magnetohydrodynamic equations that takes into account the ionic thermal energy fluxes. Earlier it was shown that the waves investigated may be of two types and the nature of the variation of the parameters of these waves as functions of density was explored. Below, exact solutions are obtained for both types of waves and it is shown that the wave with the lesser phase velocity may break on the expansion interval, while the profile of the wave with the greater phase velocity always breaks on the compression interval.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76X05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 78A40
zbMATH DE Number: 4213688
zbMATH Keywords: waves propagating along a magnetic-field
zbMATH Keywords: anisotropic plasma
zbMATH Keywords: ionic thermal energy fluxes
zbMATH Keywords: exact solutions
zbMATH Keywords: phase velocity
zbMATH Keywords: expansion interval
MaRDI profile type: Publication
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4213688