Interaction between low-frequency electrostatic waves in the ionospheric plasma
Abstract
It is shown that the energy sign of a low-frequency electrostatic wave in a laboratory reference system depends on the orientation of the wave vector with respect to the external electric and geomagnetic fields. It is found that explosive stability does not arise during the nonlinear interaction between waves with energies of different signs in the ionospheric plasma. If a wave with negative energy increases in the linear approximation while waves with positive energy are attenuated, then a system of three interacting waves achieves a quasi-equilibrium level.
- Publication:
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Geomagnetism and Aeronomy
- Pub Date:
- October 1987
- Bibcode:
- 1987Ge&Ae..27..764G
- Keywords:
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- Electrostatic Waves;
- Energy Distribution;
- F Region;
- Low Frequencies;
- Plasma-Electromagnetic Interaction;
- Electric Fields;
- Magnetic Fields;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability