Alfvén Waves in Inhomogeneous Magnetic Fields
- 1 September 1972
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 15 (9), 1673-1675
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1694148
Abstract
It has been found that the rigorous and general treatment of electrostatic oscillations in a cold plasma of nonuniform density given by Barston can be extended to the case of Alfvén waves in an ideal fluid in the presence of a class of inhomogeneous magnetic fields.Keywords
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