RADIATION FROM ELEMENTARY FLUID-MECHANICAL SOURCES IN AN UNBOUNDED ELECTRON PLASMA
The radiation characteristics of a line source of fluid flux and a line source of force, embedded in a homogeneous electron plasma of infinite extent, are investigated for the case in which a uniform magnetic field is impressed externally throughout the medium in the direction of the source. It is found that there are two propagating modes which are strictly coupled longitudinal and transverse waves. However, one of the modes is predominantly transverse in the entire frequency range of propagation and the other is predominantly transverse in the lower, and predominantly longitudinal in the higher ranges of frequency of propagation. It is shown that the elementary fluid-mechanical sources considered in this paper radiate significant amounts of power only in the longitudinal-type waves.