No additional flow continua in magnetohydrodynamics

Autor: J. P. Goedbloed, A. J. C. Beliën, B. van der Holst, Rony Keppens
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Physics of Plasmas, 11, 4332-4340
ISSN: 1089-7674
1070-664X
DOI: 10.1063/1.1774163
Popis: The classical continuous spectrum of fluid flow found by C.M. Case [Phys. Fluids 3, 143 (1960) ] is contained in the Alfven and slow continua of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Contrary to several statements in the literature, most recently by S.N. Bhattacharyya and A. Bhattacharjee [Phys. Plasmas 4, 3744 (1997) ], there are no additional flow continua in MHD. Additional Eulerian continuum modes do exist in both fluids and plasmas, but they only involve non-Lagrangian perturbations of the density or the entropy, not of the pressure and the magnetic field.
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