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Velocity-space diffusion due to resonant wave–wave scattering of electromagnetic and electrostatic waves in a plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Reiji Sugaya
Reiji Sugaya
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Ehime University, Matsuyama 790, Japan
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Abstract

The velocity-space diffusion equation describing distortion of the velocity distribution function due to resonant wave-wave scattering of electromagnetic and electrostatic waves in an unmagnetized plasma is derived from the Vlasov-Maxwell equations by perturbation theory. The conservation laws for total energy and momentum densities of waves and particles are verified, and the time evolutions of the energy and momentum densities of particles are given in terms of the nonlinear wave-wave coupling coefficient in the kinetic wave equation.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , February 1991 , pp. 103 - 113
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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