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Hydromagnetic waves in a cylindrical plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

L. C. Woods
L. C. Woods
Affiliation:
Engineering Laboratory, Oxford University
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Abstract

This paper contained several extensions of the theory of hydromagnetic waves in a partially ionized gas. The gas is confined in a cylindrical tube through which passes an axial magnetic field. The tube wall is assumed to be either a perfect conductor or a material of small or zero conductivity.

The effects of the viscosity and compressibility of the ionized and neutral gases are included in the theory, as also are the contributions of finite conductivity and the ion-cyclotron term. The non-isotropic character of the viscosity and conductivity coefficients of the ionized gas is taken into account. New boundary conditions are derived for tubes with insulating walls, and it is shown that the only pure modes that can be propagated along such tubes are just two special cases of those waves having no azimuthal dependence.

The principal result of the paper is a new dispersion relation which allows for all the dissipative effects just mentioned and which is valid for a range of frequencies which extends well beyond the ion cyclotron frequency, but falls short of the frequency at which electron inertia and displacement currents became effective.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , August 1962 , pp. 570 - 586
Copyright
© 1962 Cambridge University Press

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