Archives of Acoustics, 45, 2, pp. 241–251, 2020
10.24425/aoa.2020.133145

Magnetoacoustic Heating of Plasma Caused by Periodic Magnetosound Perturbations with Discontinuities in a Quasi-Isentropic Magnetic Gas

Anna PERELOMOVA
Technical University of Gdansk
Poland

The magnetoacoustic heating of a plasma by harmonic or periodic saw-tooth perturbations at a transducer is theoretically studied. The planar fast and slow magnetosound waves are considered. The wave vector may form an arbitrary angle θ with the equilibrium straight magnetic strength. In view of variable θ and plasma-β, the description of magnetosound perturbations and relative magnetosound heating is fairly difficult. The scenario of heating depends not only on plasma-β and θ, but also on a balance between nonlinear attenuation at the shock front and inflow of energy into a system. Under some conditions, the average over the magnetosound period force of heating may tend to a positive or negative limit, or may tend to zero, or may remain constant when the distance from a transducer tends to infinity. Dynamics of temperature specifying heating differs in thermally stable and unstable cases and occurs unusually in the isentropically unstable flows.
Keywords: non-linear magnetoacoustics; shock waves; adiabatical instability; acoustic activity; acoustic heating
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DOI: 10.24425/aoa.2020.133145