Published June 1990 | Version v1
Journal article

Intrinsic chaos in a plasma wave

  • 1. Department of Physics and Centre of Energy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi (India)
  • 2. Fusion Studies Program, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi (India)

Description

The linear plasma response to an electrostatic wave is described by the Van Kampen--Case--Siewert (VCS) modal structure using Lie transform techniques. The VCS structure, which is well known to give rise to Landau damping, is also proved to be responsible for chaotic particle response and diffusion in phase space in the quasilinear limit

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics of Fluids B
Journal Volume
2
Journal Issue
6
Series
Phys. Fluids B.
Journal Page Range
1154-1158
ISSN
0899-8221
CODEN
PFBPE

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
21073180
Subject category
S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
Descriptors DEI
COLLISIONLESS PLASMA; DIFFUSION; HOT PLASMA; LANDAU DAMPING; LIE GROUPS; PHASE SPACE; PLASMA WAVES; RANDOMNESS; TRANSFORMATIONS
Descriptors DEC
DAMPING; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; PLASMA; SPACE; SYMMETRY GROUPS