Wave Motion in a Plasma Based on a Fokker-Planck Equation (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Alan Oppenheim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0365804681 ISBN 13: 9780365804680

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from Wave Motion in a Plasma Based on a Fokker-Planck Equation

We introduce an isotropic approximation to the fokker-planck collision operators in Boltzmann's equations in order to study small amplitude wave motion in a fully ionized, neutral, two component plasma in a steady, applied magnetic field. With this model we find Larmor resonance modes which can not be found from theories based on the relaxation model of Bhatnagar, Gross and Krook[1] (the Krook model). We remark that so far the Krook model is the only other collision model from which one computes Larmor resonances. Moreover, these modes persist in a certain non-uniform collisionless limit.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0365804681
• ISBN 13: 9780365804680
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 103