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Three-wave coupling coefficient in a drifting bi-Maxwellian plasma
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2009
Abstract
A general electrostatic coupling coefficient which satisfies the Manley-Rowe relations is used to derive an explicit expression for the resonant three-wave coupling coefficient between electrostatic normal modes of a uniformly magnetized, infinite, homogeneous plasma with species described by drifting bi-Maxwellian distribution functions. The limit of this expression is taken when the phase velocities of the three waves are much larger than a species thermal speed, and also when the phase velocities are much smaller than the thermal speed. These are fluid limits and are applicable to the three-wave interaction between some low-frequency electrostatic waves, such as ion acoustic and ion cyclotron modes, in a plasma where Te ≫ Ti.
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