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view Abstract Citations (25) References (15) Co-Reads Similar Papers Volume Content Graphics Metrics Export Citation NASA/ADS Nonresonant Resistive Dissipation of Compressible Magnetohydrodynamic Waves Califano, Francesco ; Chiuderi, Claudio ; Einaudi, Giorgio Abstract The effect of compressibility on the propagation and resistive dissipation properties of magnetohydrodynamic waves in nonuniform media is studied by using a normal mode analysis. The paper concentrates on wave models for which the resistivity acts over the entire system, thus excluding localized resonant absorption. The wave modes in nonhomogeneous situations are identified in term of their familiar homogeneous counterparts and it is shown that only the shear Alfven and slow magnetosonic modes survive in the resistive regime. The most promising heating agents in the astrophysical context are shown to be the shear Alfven waves that behave almost incompressibly. Publication: The Astrophysical Journal Pub Date: May 1992 DOI: 10.1086/171306 Bibcode: 1992ApJ...390..560C Keywords: Compressibility; Magnetohydrodynamic Waves; Wave Attenuation; Wave Propagation; Analytic Functions; Magnetosonic Resonance; Mathematical Models; Propagation Modes; Shear; Plasma Physics; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS: MHD full text sources ADS |
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