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Oscillation-centre fluid theory of the ponderomotive force
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2009
Abstract
A new fluid-theory derivation of the time-dependent ponderomotive force is presented in the oscillation-centre representation. We show that the velocity renormalization adopted in this paper is equivalent to the oscillation-centre representation and is the velocity required so that the mean density obeys the continuity equation exactly. We also show that previous fluid theory results may be recovered by adopting a different velocity renormalization and by redefining the ponderomotive force.
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