Journal article
Weakly damped acoustic-like ion waves in plasmas with non-Maxwellian ion distributions
Physics of plasmas, Vol.8(8), pp.3550-3557
08/01/2001
DOI: 10.1063/1.1386428
Abstract
Dispersion relations for ion-acoustic-like waves in plasmas with and without superthermal particles are calculated using a simple pole expansion of the distribution function for the ions. It is found that slow weakly damped modes exist in two-temperature plasmas, and the conditions when these modes appear are investigated. For plasmas with equal ion and electron temperatures weakly damped modes are found when there is a depletion of the high-energy tails.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Weakly damped acoustic-like ion waves in plasmas with non-Maxwellian ion distributions
- Creators
- H. Gunell - Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242F. Skiff - Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Physics of plasmas, Vol.8(8), pp.3550-3557
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.1386428
- ISSN
- 1070-664X
- eISSN
- 1089-7674
- Number of pages
- 8
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/01/2001
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984429011202771
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