Abstract
The evolution of linear magnetohydrodynamic waves and plasma instabilities (firehose and mirror) in a compressible, magnetized plane Couette flow with anisotropic thermal pressure is investigated. In the present study we revealed that the pressure anisotropy brings significant novelty to the effect of coupling and linear reciprocal transformation of the wave modes originally discovered [Chagelishvili, Rogava, and Tsiklauri, Phys. Rev. E 53, 6028 (1996)]. It is found that behavior of the firehose and mirror instabilities is drastically changed due to the presence of shear in the flow. These novel effects are caused by the non-normality of linear dynamics in shear flows and they have been revealed through use of the nonmodal approach.
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