Abstract
The transmission of the fast Alfvén wave in second harmonic ion cyclotron resonance heating of a deuterium-hydrogen (minority) plasma is analyzed in a general three-dimensional magnetogeometry. The approach is based on the congruent reduction of the Hermitian, anisotropic pressure fluid plasma model. The unreduced, 17th-order, slow-amplitude transport equation, characterizing the problem of interest, is systematically reduced to the fourth-order irreducible transport system describing the coupling of the fast wave to the resonant components of the anisotropic pressure plasma model. This system yields a compact expression for the fast wave transmission coefficient in a general geometry and arbitrary direction of propagation of the incident wave.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1204-1209 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Physics of Fluids B |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 6 |
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| State | Published - 1990 |
