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Excitation of surface waves in magnetohydrodynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi
Affiliation:
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, U.S.A.

Abstract

A study is made of the transient development of two-dimensional linearized surface waves generated by a localized steady pressure distribution on the interface between a uniformly streaming, semi-infinite, infinitely conducting plasma subjected to a gravitational field and the confining vacuum magnetic field. The linearized equations associated with an initial-value problem are used to obtain the large-time asymptotic behaviour of the disturbance in the far field.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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