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Australian Journal of Physics Australian Journal of Physics Society
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RESEARCH ARTICLE

The Spatial Alfvén Resonance in a Collisional Plasma

IJ Donnelly and BE Clancy

Australian Journal of Physics 36(3) 305 - 320
Published: 1983

Abstract

The structure of wave fields at the spatial Alfven resonance in a cylindrical collisional plasma is studied using both a WKB analysis and a numerical solution of the wave equations. At high plasma density and low temperature the Alfven resonance leads to ohmic dissipation of wave energy in a narrow resistive layer. The enhanced b. fields in this layer allow detection of the Alfven resonance position by magnetic field probes. An experiment which reports the observation of the spatial Alfven resonance has been analysed with good agreement between the calculated and the measured fields.

https://doi.org/10.1071/PH830305a

© CSIRO 1983

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