@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00005448,
 author = {Toida, Mieko and Yoshiya, Takashi and ohsawa, Yukiharu},
 issue = {4},
 journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
 month = {Apr},
 note = {The evolution of macroscopic magnetohydrodynamic disturbances across a magnetic field is studied, with particular attention to the effect of multiple ion species. Analyses are carried out on disturbances where the initial magnetic profiles are sinusoidal. Both the theory and electromagnetic simulations show that, in a single-ion-species plasma, the disturbance is undamped, with its energy oscillating between the magnetic field and ion velocity. In a multi-ion-species plasma, however, it is initially damped, owing to the phase mixing of the magnetosonic mode and the modes having ion-ion hybrid cutoff frequencies. Furthermore, it is found from long-time simulations that the amplitude of the disturbance continues to decrease in a multi-ion-species plasma. This is due to nonlinear mode couplings. The magnetic energy is irreversibly transferred to the ions., 8pages},
 pages = {042302--042302},
 title = {Damping of magnetohydrodynamic disturbances in multi-ion-species plasmas},
 volume = {13},
 year = {2006}
}