Langmuir collapse in the presence of pumping and the dissipation of wave energy
Abstract
Numerical methods are used in investigating the dynamics of a Langmuir cavity resulting from the modulation instability of long-wave pumping at the plasma frequency. It is shown that at the final stage of collapse, when Landau damping of the plasma oscillations becomes significant, the cavity 'burns up' and the Langmuir energy is absorbed by resonance electrons.
- Publication:
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Zhurnal Eksperimentalnoi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki
- Pub Date:
- October 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983ZhETF..85.1221D
- Keywords:
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- Electrostatic Waves;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Plasma Pumping;
- Plasma Turbulence;
- Wave Attenuation;
- Cavities;
- Energy Dissipation;
- Landau Damping;
- Plasma Oscillations;
- Plasma Physics