Selected Publications

(Inertial Alfven waves, mode conversion, resonance cones)


P. M. Bellan, J. Yee, and J. F. Hansen, Spheromaks, solar prominences and Alfven instability of current sheets, Earth Planets and Space, 53, 495 (2001),  preprint

K. Stasiewicz, P. Bellan, C. Chaston, C. Kletzing, R. Lysak, J. Maggs, O. Pokhotelov, C. Seyler, P. Shukla, L. Stenflo, A. Streltsov, and J-E. Wahlund, Small Scale Alfvénic Structure in the Aurora, Space Sci. Reviews 92,  423 (2000) (preprint text, figures).

Bellan, P. M., Alfven Wave Instability of Current Sheets in Force-Free Collisionless Plasmas,   Phys. Rev. Letters.83, 4768 (1999). (preprint in PDF format)

Bellan, P. M., Collisionless Reconnection using Alfven wave radiation resistance, Phys. Plasmas 5, 3081 (1998).

Bellan, P. M., Comment on "Are two-fluid effects relevant to ULF pulsations?", J. Geophys. Res. 103, 11973 (1998).

Bellan, P. M. and K. Stasiewicz, Fine-scale Cavitation of Ionospheric Plasma Caused by Inertial Alfven Wave Ponderomotive Force, Phys. Rev. Letters, 80, 3523 (1998).

Bellan, P. M., New model for ULF Pc5 Pulsations: Alfven Cones, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23,1717(1996).

Bellan, P. M., Mode conversion into non-MHD waves at the Alfven layer: the case against the field line resonance, J. Geophys. Res. 101,24887(1996).

Bellan, P. M., An effective numerical method for linear mode conversion problems, J. Comput. Phys. 101, 24887 (1996).

Bellan, P. M., Alfven resonance reconsidered: Exact equations for wave propagation across a cold inhomogeneous plasma, Phys. Plasmas 1, 3523(1994).


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Revised: December 23, 2003.

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