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Stability of weakly nonlinear ion sound waves with finite ion temperature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

E. Infeld  and
G. Rowlands
E. Infeld
Affiliation:
Institute of Nuclear Research, Hoża 69, Warsaw, Poland
G. Rowlands
Affiliation:
University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL
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Abstract

The modulation instability of small-amplitude ion-acoustic waves is investigated in three dimensions for Ti<0 (ion temperature non-zero). Relevance of results to an experiment of Watanabe is discussed. Instabilities present in this experiment are seen to be due to three-dimensional rather than thermal effects and would also appear for Ti = 0.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , February 1981 , pp. 81 - 87
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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