Bulletin of Pure & Applied Sciences- Physics

  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 31d
  • Issue: 1

Plasma planar filaments instability and alfven waves

  • Author:
  • I.R. Durrani
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 121 to 126

Director, Faculty of Basic Sciences, University of Gujrat, Pakistan.

Abstract

Inhomogeneous plasma filaments instabilities are investigated by using the techniques of classical differential geometry of curves where Frenet torsion and curvature describe completely the motion of curves; in our case the Frenet frame changes in time and also depends upon the other coordinates taking into account the inhomogeneity of the plasma. The exponential perturbation method so commonly used to describe cosmological perturbations is applied to magneto hydrodynamic (MHD) plasma equations to find longitudinal modes describing Alfven wave's propagation modes describing plasma waves in the medium. Stability is investigated in the imaginary axis of the spectra of complex frequencies ω or Im(ω) ≠ 0.

Keywords

Plasma MHD instability, Frenet frame, Alfven waves, planar filaments