Dark and grey compressional dispersive Alfven solitons in plasmas

Journal Article · Wed Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3602463· OSTI ID:21546998

Shukla, P K; Eliasson, B ^[1]; Stenflo, L ^[2]

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1. International Centre for Advanced Studies in Physical Sciences, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Ruhr University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum (Germany)
2. Department of Physics, Linkoeping University, SE-58183 Linkoeping (Sweden)

The amplitude modulation of compressional dispersive Alfven (CDA) waves in a low-{beta} plasma is considered. It is shown that the dynamics of modulated CDA waves is governed by a cubic nonlinear Schroedinger equation, which depicts the formation of a dark/grey envelope CDA soliton.

• OSTI ID: 21546998
• Journal Information: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 18, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3602463; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 1070-664X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
ALFVEN WAVES
AMPLITUDES
LOW-BETA PLASMA
MODULATION
NONLINEAR PROBLEMS
SCHROEDINGER EQUATION
SOLITONS
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
EQUATIONS
HYDROMAGNETIC WAVES
PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
PLASMA
QUASI PARTICLES
WAVE EQUATIONS