The parametric decay of Alfven waves into shear Alfven waves and dust lower hybrid waves

Journal Article · Thu Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3460344· OSTI ID:21389152

Jamil, M ^[1]; Shah, H A; Zubia, K; Zeba, I; Uzma, Ch ^[1]; Salimullah, M ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, Government College University, Lahore 54000 (Pakistan)

The parametric decay instability of Alfven wave into low-frequency electrostatic dust-lower-hybrid and electromagnetic shear Alfven waves has been investigated in detail in a dusty plasma in the presence of external/ambient uniform magnetic field. Magnetohydrodynamic fluid equations of plasmas have been employed to find the linear and nonlinear response of the plasma particles for this three-wave nonlinear coupling in a dusty magnetoplasma. Here, relatively high frequency electromagnetic Alfven wave has been taken as the pump wave. It couples with other two low-frequency internal possible modes of the dusty magnetoplasma, viz., the dust-lower-hybrid and shear Alfven waves. The nonlinear dispersion relation of the dust-lower-hybrid wave has been solved to obtain the growth rate of the parametric decay instability. The growth rate is maximum for small value of external magnetic field B{sub s}. It is noticed that the growth rate is proportional to the unperturbed electron number density n{sub oe}.

• OSTI ID: 21389152
• Journal Information: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 17, Issue 7; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3460344; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 1070-664X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
ALFVEN WAVES
COUPLING
DECAY INSTABILITY
DISPERSION RELATIONS
DUSTS
LOWER HYBRID CURRENT DRIVE
MAGNETIC FIELDS
MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS
NONLINEAR PROBLEMS
PARAMETRIC INSTABILITIES
PLASMA
PLASMA WAVES
SHEAR
FLUID MECHANICS
HYDRODYNAMICS
HYDROMAGNETIC WAVES
INSTABILITY
MECHANICS
NON-INDUCTIVE CURRENT DRIVE
PLASMA INSTABILITY
PLASMA MACROINSTABILITIES