Localization of 3D inertial Alfven wave and generation of turbulence

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Sharma, R. P. [1 ]
Sharma, Prachi [1 ]
Yadav, N. [1 ]
机构
[1] Indian Inst Technol Delhi, Ctr Energy Studies, New Delhi 110016, India
关键词
Inertial Alfven wave; Ponderomotive nonlinearity; ELECTRON ACCELERATION; VORTEX STRUCTURES; IONOSPHERE; PLASMA; MAGNETOSPHERE; FREQUENCY; EVOLUTION; SPECTRA;
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10.1007/s10509-015-2338-z
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P1 [天文学];
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The present paper deals with the nonlinear interaction of Inertial Alfven wave (IAW) and fast magnetosonic wave in the low beta plasma, where beta is the ratio of thermal pressure to the background magnetic pressure. In this paper, the localization and turbulent spectra of IAW along with the density dips correlated with the fast magnetosonic wave have been investigated. Variation of parallel electric field along and across the field lines has also been studied. Taking ponderomotive nonlinear effect in the dynamics of fast magnetosonic wave, couple of dimensionless equations has been derived. These coupled equations have been simulated numerically using the pseudo-spectralmethod. The obtained results reveal that the Kolmogorov scaling is followed by a steeper scaling in magnetic power spectrum, which is consistent with the observations by the FAST and Hawkeye spacecraft in auroral region. The relevance of present investigation has been discussed for auroral
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