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Electron hole and electron wave excitation in a plasma with transverse effects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Satoru Iizuka  and
Hiroshi Tanaca
Satoru Iizuka
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama 240, Japan
Hiroshi Tanaca
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama 240, Japan
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Abstract

Excitation of electron holes and electron wave pulses is investigated numerically in a single-ended plasma by computer simulation using a particle model. The transverse effects are taken into account by introducing the perpendicular wavenumber in the Poisson equation. Increase in the plasma potential in front of a plasma source, resulting from propagation of the rarefaction pulse from an end boundary, gives rise to the excitation of electron holes, while the rarefaction pulse reflects back as the compression pulse toward the boundary. The qualitative properties are in good agreement with experiment.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , December 1986 , pp. 453 - 463
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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