A WKB analysis of the Alfvén spectrum of the linearized magnetohydrodynamics equations
Small perturbations of an equilibrium plasma satisfy the linearized magnetohydrodynamics equations. These form a mixed elliptic-hyperbolic system that in a straight-field geometry and for a fixed time frequency may be reduced to a single scalar equation div, where may have singularities in the domaind of definition. We study the case when is a half-plane and possesses high Fourier components, analyzing the changes brought about by the singularity . We show that absorptions of energy takes...