Kinetic Simulations of the interruption of large-amplitude Shear-Alfvén waves in a high-β plasma
Using two-dimensional hybrid-kinetic simulations, we explore the nonlinear "interruption" of standing and traveling shear-Alfvén waves in collisionless plasmas. Interruption involves a self-generated pressure anisotropy removing the restoring force of a linearly polarized Alfvénic perturba...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2017
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