NASA NTRS · 19840054102
Solitons versus parametric instabilities during ionospheric heating
Abstract
Various effects associated with ionospheric heating are investigated by numerically solving the modified Zakharov (1972) equations. It is shown that, for typical ionospheric parameters, the modulational instability is more important than the parametric decay instability in the spatial region of strongest heater electric field. It is concluded that the modulational instability leads to the formation of solitons, as originally predicted by Petviashvili (1976).
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Nicholson, D. R., Payne, G. L., Downie, R. M., Sheerin, J. P.. 1984-06-11. Solitons versus parametric instabilities during ionospheric heating. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19840054102
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