Chaos in Non Lineal Alfven Waves Using the DNLS Equation

ELASKAR, SERGIO; SÁNCHEZ-ARRIAGA, GONZALO; SANMARTÍN, JUAN

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Congreso; 2006 International Symposium on Electrohydrodynamics – 2006 ISEHD; 2006

Universidad de Buenos Aires

The electro-dynamical tethers emit waves in structured denominated Alfven wings. The Derivative Nonlineal Schrödinger Equation (DNLS) possesses the capacity to describe the propagation of circularly polarized Alfven waves of finite amplitude in cold plasmas. The DNLS equation is truncated to explore the coherent, weakly nonlinear, cubic coupling of three waves near resonance, one wave being linearly unstable and the other waves damped. In this article is presented a theoretical and numerical analysis when the growth rate of the unstable wave is next to zero considering two damping models: Landau and resistive. The DNLS equation presents a chaotic dynamics when is consider only three wave truncation. The evolution to chaos possesses three routes: hard transition, period-doubling and intermittence of type I.