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Stability of non-linear plasma waves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

G. Rpwlands
G. Rpwlands
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, England
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Abstract

The stability of a stationary non-linear wave set up by two counter-streaming cold beams of electrons immersed in a background of stationary ions is examined without recourse to an expansion in terms of the amplitude of this wave. It is found that this wave is unstable to small perturbations and hence one would not expect such waves to exist in practice.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , December 1969 , pp. 567 - 576
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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