Pseudo-Spectrum of the Resistive Magneto-hydrodynamics Operator: Resolving the Resistive Alfven Paradox

D. Borba, K. S. Riedel, W. Kerner +3

The `Alfvén Paradox' is that as resistivity decreases, the discrete eigenmodes do not converge to the generalized eigenmodes of the ideal Alfvén continuum. To resolve the paradox,…