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Discontinuities in an anisotropic plasma and their identification in the solar wind
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The types of discontinuity which can occur in a magnetohydrodynamic fluid with anistotropic pressure are discussed in this article, and rules are given for the identification of the type of discontinuities together with equations to determine their orientation and velocity.About:
This article is published in Planetary and Space Science.The article was published on 1970-11-01. It has received 343 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Shocks and discontinuities & Discontinuity (geotechnical engineering).read more
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The solution of the Rankine–Hugoniot equations for fast shocks in an anisotropic kappa distributed medium
D. F. Vogl,D. Langmayr,D. Langmayr,Nikolai V. Erkaev,Helfried K. Biernat,Helfried K. Biernat,Charlie J. Farrugia,S. Mühlbachler +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the anisotropic threshold conditions of the plasma instabilities are obtained via a kinetic approach using a generalized Lorentzian distribution function, the so-called kappa distribution function.
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Intermittencies and Local Heating in Magnetic Cloud Boundary Layers
Zilu Zhou,Zilu Zhou,Pingbing Zuo,Xueshang Feng,Xueshang Feng,Yi Wang,Chaowei Jiang,X. Y. Song +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors performed a statistical study on the intermittency and the associated local heating in the front boundary layers (BLs) of 74 magnetic clouds (MCs) and identified the intermittent structures by the partial variance of increments (PVI) method.
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Electromagnetic instabilities in non-uniform anisotropic plasmas
B. Butt,G. S. Lakhina +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the mechanisms of electromagnetic instabilities in nonuniform plasmas are analyzed, taking into account the anisotropy in temperature and temperature gradients, and it is shown that resonance-type drift instabilities can be produced by resonant interactions between ions or electrons and plasma drift waves.
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Electrostatic structure of the rotational discontinuity: The elementary pulse
Dong‐Jian Wang,B. U. Ö. Sonnerup +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of the rotational discontinuity in a collision-free plasma when the width of the discontinuity is comparable to the Debye length, λD, so that a large deviation from charge neutrality occurs is presented.
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TL;DR: In this article, the propagation of electromagnetic waves and X-ray diffraction of X rays in crystals are discussed. But they do not consider the effects of superconductivity on superconducting conductors.
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Discontinuities in the solar wind
D. S. Colburn,Charles P. Sonett +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the existence of a field of MHD discontinuities in the solar wind should make possible the generation of ensembles of shocks and contact surfaces, which can be treated as shock wave or contact surface.
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Power spectra and discontinuities of the interplanetary magnetic field - Mariner 4.
TL;DR: Power spectra and fluctuations of interplanetary magnetic field from Mariner 4 data for solar active and quiet days as mentioned in this paper, for both active and non-active solar active days.
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Micro-scale structures in the interplanetary medium
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe and analyze the following micro-scale structures which were found in combined interplanetary magnetic field and plasma data obtained by the deep-space probe Pioneer-6: (1) Several types of simultaneous discontinuities in the magnetic fields and plasma parameters; (2) at least one clear example of a transitional region (D-sheet) associated with a plasma discontinuity; (3) other D-sheets which give evidence of magnetic field annihilation; inhomogeneous isothermal regions in which the square of the magnetic-field intensity is proportional to the
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