Generalized Pressure Tensor, Stress Tensor and Ponderomotive Force in Collisionless Plasma
Abstract
The generalized expression for the ponderomotive force acting on a plasma in which a electromagnetic wave is excited is obtained from the hydrodynamical equations. The ponderomotive force is calculated from the time-averaged stress tensor with the generalized pressure tensor, which includes the higher order effect of high-frequency fields.
- Publication:
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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
- Pub Date:
- January 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1143/JPSJ.51.269
- Bibcode:
- 1982JPSJ...51..269K
- Keywords:
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- Collisionless Plasmas;
- Electromagnetic Radiation;
- Hydrodynamic Equations;
- Ponderomotive Forces;
- Stress Tensors;
- Wave Excitation;
- Electron Plasma;
- Maxwell Equation;
- Plasma Frequencies;
- Solenoids;
- Vlasov Equations;
- Wave Propagation;
- Plasma Physics