Parametric instabilities in underdense plasma and stochastic heating of electrons

DOI10.1063/1.865063zbMath0586.76070OpenAlexW2052563224MaRDI QIDQ3713652

A. A. Offenberger, W. Tighe, Kent Estabrook, W. Rozmus

Publication date: 1985

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.865063

zbMATH Keywords

particle-in-cell simulationsparametric instabilitiesmomentum transferhomogeneous plasmaMaxwellian tailsaturation mechanismion-acoustic decayoscillating two-stream instabilitiesfields of coherent wavesheating of the electron distribution functionhot particle productionion-acoustic second harmoniclarge scale stochasticity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

Cites Work

• Regular and stochastic motion

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