Publications in Mode Conversion Theory

A.J. Brizard, A.N. Kaufman, and E.R. Tracy, Recirculation in multiple wave conversions, Physics of Plasmas 15, 082116:1-10 (2008).

A.N. Kaufman, E.R. Tracy, and A.J. Brizard, Helical rays in two-dimensional resonant wave conversion, Physics of Plasmas 12, 022101:1-10 (2005).

E.R. Tracy, A.N. Kaufman, and A.J. Brizard, Ray-based methods in multidimensional linear wave conversion, Physics of Plasmas 10, 2147-2154 (2003).

A.N. Kaufman, E.R. Tracy, J.J. Morehead, and A.J. Brizard, The dissipative Budden problem: Effect of converted-wave damping on primary-wave reflection, Physics Letters A 252, 43-48 (1999).

A.N. Kaufman, J.J. Morehead, A.J. Brizard, and E.R. Tracy, Mode conversion in the Gulf of Guinea, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 394, 175-192 (1999).

A.J. Brizard, J.J. Morehead, A.N. Kaufman, and E.R. Tracy, Double-crossing mode conversion in nonuniform media, Physics of Plasmas 5, 45-59 (1998).

A.J. Brizard, J.J. Morehead, A.N. Kaufman, and E.R. Tracy, Double-cross instability: An absolute instability caused by counter-propagating positive- and negative-energy waves, Physical Review Letters 77, 1500-1503 (1996).

A.J. Brizard and A.N. Kaufman, How a wave flips its energy sign by linear conversion, Physical Review Letters 76, 1639-1642 (1996).

E.R. Tracy, A.J. Brizard, and A.N. Kaufman, Generalized Case-van Kampen modes in a multi-dimensional non-uniform plasma with application to gyroresonance heating, Journal of Plasma Physics 55, 449-486 (1996).

A.J. Brizard and A.N. Kaufman, The linear-conversion theory of energetic-minority-ion Bernstein-wave propagation across gyroresonance in nonuniform magnetic field, Physics of Plasmas 3, 64-71 (1996).

D.R. Cook, A.N. Kaufman, A.J. Brizard, H. Ye, and E.R. Tracy, Two-dimensional reflection of magnetosonic radiation by gyroballistic waves: An analytic theory, Physics Letters A 178, 413-418 (1993).