Validity of the Electrostatic Approximation
Abstract
Criteria are derived for the existence of normal modes in a magnetized plasma for which |≇ × E|≪|≇.E|. The condition is different from the frequently quoted condition of thermal pressure ≪ magnetic pressure.
- Publication:
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Physics of Fluids
- Pub Date:
- May 1970
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1970PhFl...13.1401M