Complete spectrum of kinetic eigenmodes for plasma oscillations in a weakly collisional plasma

C S Ng; A Bhattacharjee; F Skiff

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.065002

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Complete spectrum of kinetic eigenmodes for plasma oscillations in a weakly collisional plasma

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Complete spectrum of kinetic eigenmodes for plasma oscillations in a weakly collisional plasma

C S Ng, A Bhattacharjee and F Skiff

Physical review letters, Vol.92(6), pp.650021-650024

02/13/2004

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.065002

PMID: 14995245

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Abstract

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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Title: Subtitle: Complete spectrum of kinetic eigenmodes for plasma oscillations in a weakly collisional plasma
Creators: C S Ng
A Bhattacharjee - University of New Hampshire at Manchester
F Skiff - University of Iowa
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Physical review letters, Vol.92(6), pp.650021-650024
Publisher: AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.065002
PMID: 14995245
ISSN: 0031-9007
eISSN: 1079-7114
Number of pages: 4
Language: English
Date published: 02/13/2004
Academic Unit: Physics and Astronomy
Record Identifier: 9984428838802771

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