Wave Modes in Compressible Collision Free Multi-Species Magnetoplasmas
Abstract
For the calculation of the dispersion equation and polarization ratios of waves with phase velocities much higher than the thermal speed the latter is completely neglected in the so-called cold plasma approximation. A simple approach to taking the thermal speed into account is to add the gradient of a scalar pressure in the momentum balance equations for the mean velocities of the different species and to relate those pressures to the densities via an isothermal law.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 20, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADP015014
Entities
People
- S. Suchy