Published August 16, 1993 | Version v1
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Nonlinear waves in collisionless plasmas

Creators

  • 1. Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
  • 2. Dept. of Engineering Physics, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)

Description

We report results showing that arbitrarily close to any spatially uniform equilibrium of the one-dimensional Vlasov-Maxwell equations for collisionless plasmas there exist exact traveling solitary wave and traveling periodic wave solutions which, by virtue of particle trapping, neither damp nor grow even when their amplitude is arbitrarily small. (orig.)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. A
Journal Volume
179
Journal Issue
4-5
Journal Page Range
p. 306-310.
ISSN
0375-9601
CODEN
PYLAAG

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
Netherlands
INIS RN
25024379
Subject category
S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; BOLTZMANN-VLASOV EQUATION; COLLISIONLESS PLASMA; DAMPING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; PLASMA WAVES; SOLITONS; TRAPPING; WAVE PROPAGATION
Descriptors DEC
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PLASMA; QUASI PARTICLES