In:
The Physics of Fluids, AIP Publishing, Vol. 2, No. 1 ( 1959-01-01), p. 23-30
Abstract:
In high-temperature plasmas, collisions are very infrequent. Thus the charged particles travel on independent orbits determined by the electromagnetic field. At first sight this would seem completely different from a conventional fluid where particles are closely hemmed in by their neighbors. However, there can exist collective modes of motion in which the particles interact with each other by altering the fields. In this paper a new method is developed for the solution of the linearized transport equation. By facilitating direct use of the properties of particle orbits, a considerable simplification is achieved. In particular, a variational expression is derived for determining stability which is rigorous in the limit of small Larmor radius.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0031-9171
Language:
English
Publisher:
AIP Publishing
Publication Date:
1959
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1472743-2
detail.hit.zdb_id:
241528-8
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