Published July 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

The parametric decay of Alfven waves into shear Alfven waves and dust lower hybrid waves

  • 1. Department of Physics, Crescent Model School Shadman, Lahore 54000 (Pakistan)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Government College University, Lahore 54000 (Pakistan)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka 1342 (Bangladesh)

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The parametric decay instability of Alfven wave into low-frequency electrostatic dust-lower-hybrid and electromagnetic shear Alfven waves has been investigated in detail in a dusty plasma in the presence of external/ambient uniform magnetic field. Magnetohydrodynamic fluid equations of plasmas have been employed to find the linear and nonlinear response of the plasma particles for this three-wave nonlinear coupling in a dusty magnetoplasma. Here, relatively high frequency electromagnetic Alfven wave has been taken as the pump wave. It couples with other two low-frequency internal possible modes of the dusty magnetoplasma, viz., the dust-lower-hybrid and shear Alfven waves. The nonlinear dispersion relation of the dust-lower-hybrid wave has been solved to obtain the growth rate of the parametric decay instability. The growth rate is maximum for small value of external magnetic field Bs. It is noticed that the growth rate is proportional to the unperturbed electron number density noe.

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Journal Title
Physics of Plasmas
Journal Volume
17
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 073703-073703.5
ISSN
1070-664X
CODEN
PHPAEN

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