Influence of external density fluctuations on parametric 3-wave interaction

B. Lefebvre (1) , V. Krasnoselskikh (1) , S. D. Bale (1) , A. S. Volokitin (1)

1 LPC2E - Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace

Recent satellite observations seem to invalidate the classical scenario of Langmuir turbulence. Among the possible candidates which may play an important role to be taken into account are external density fluctuations. Parametric three-wave interaction is studied in the presence of quasi-monochromatic large-scale and low-frequency density fluctuations.

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]

B. Lefebvre, V. Krasnoselskikh, S. D. Bale, A. S. Volokitin. Influence of external density fluctuations on parametric 3-wave interaction. Advances in Space Research, 2002, 30, pp.1645-1650. ⟨10.1016/S0273-1177(02)00429-5⟩. ⟨insu-03611214⟩