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Wave-trains in the solar wind

I: General theory and its application to an ideal, isotropic, one-fluid plasma

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The main results of Whitham's averaged Lagrangian method for the treatment of linear wave-trains in a weakly inhomogeneous, moving medium are presented briefly. This method is then applied to an ideal, isotropic, one-fluid plasma which can be taken for the lowest order approximation for the interplanetary solar wind expansion.

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  1. Abteilung für Theoretische Geophysik, Universität Hamburg, Germany

    Dirk J. Olbers

  2. Institut für Reine und Angewandte Kernphysik, Universität Kiel, Germany

    Arne K. Richter

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Olbers, D.J., Richter, A.K. Wave-trains in the solar wind. Astrophys Space Sci 20, 373–389 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00642209

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