Resonant electron effects on trapped electron instabilities
Abstract
The necessity of distinguishing between perpendicular and parallel components in electron velocity space, rather than simply considering energy, is pointed out and employed to estimate the effects of finite collisionality on the trapped electron instability.
- Publication:
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Physics of Fluids
- Pub Date:
- October 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.861365
- Bibcode:
- 1976PhFl...19.1596C
- Keywords:
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- Collisional Plasmas;
- Electron Energy;
- Electron Plasma;
- Plasma Oscillations;
- Trapped Particles;
- Differential Equations;
- Eigenvalues;
- Fourier Transformation;
- Kinetic Equations;
- Velocity Distribution;
- Plasma Physics