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At high intensities, the plasma density profile is steepened by light pressure to a fraction of a laser wavelength.
Additionally, they show steepened trailing edges, where density depletions occur.
By contrast, distal clinoforms (shelf break, distally steepened ramp settings) yield a much broader spectrum of profiles and are generally shorter and steeper.
These forces oppose the formation of regions of steepened velocity gradient, and thus the mean energy of the flow drops off rapidly with time.
This coordinate can redress the disproportionate distribution of grid points by equalizing the steepened metric distribution along the magnetic field line in the conventional dipole coordinate.
Both odd and even harmonics were observed, and the physical process invoked to explain the harmonics generation was the resonance absorption, due to a highly steepened density profile.
In most cases the initial standing wave generated by the tilted interface steepened and evolved into a packet of solitary waves, although some energy remained in a residual larger scale.
However, instead of the decline being arrested the decline has quicked and steepened.
