Published February 13, 2004
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Journal article
Complete spectrum of kinetic eigenmodes for plasma oscillations in a weakly collisional plasma
- 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242 (United States)
- 2. Space Science Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824 (United States)
Description
Kinetic eigenmodes of plasma oscillations in a weakly collisional plasma, described by a collision operator of the Fokker-Planck type, are obtained in closed form for initial-value as well as for boundary-value problems. These eigenmodes, which are smooth and compose a complete discrete spectrum, play the same role for weakly collisional plasmas as the Case-Van Kampen modes do for collisionless plasmas
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Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 92
- Journal Issue
- 6
- Journal Page Range
- p. 065002-065002.4
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTAO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36020838
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- BOUNDARY-VALUE PROBLEMS; COLLISIONAL PLASMA; COLLISIONLESS PLASMA; EIGENFUNCTIONS; FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION; PLASMA WAVES
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; FUNCTIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PLASMA
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- Notes
- (c) 2004 The American Physical Society