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Electron holes and their role in the dynamics of current-carrying weakly collisional plasmas. Part 1. Immobile ions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

J. Korn
Affiliation:
Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany
H. Schamel
Affiliation:
Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany

Abstract

Solutions of the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck-Poisson system in a current-carrying plasma are analysed theoretically and numerically in the collisionless and weakly collisional approximations. The class of electron holes is extended, and new solitary electron hole and hump equilibria are found. Numerical solutions of the full time-dependent self-consistent problem are presented that show the non-existence of structural dissipative equilibria as long as ions are treated as an immobile background.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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