Cascade and collapse of Langmuir waves in two dimensions Journal Article

Overview

abstract

• The temporal evolution of intense Langmuir waves in an unmagnetized plasma of two spatial dimensions is studied numerically. When the inequality W≳ (kλe)2 is satisfied, the evolution quickly leads to a state of collapsing solitons. Here, W is the ratio of electric field energy density to the particle kinetic energy density, k is a typical Langmuir wavenumber, and λe is the electron Debye length.

CU Boulder Authors

• Goldman, Martin V

publication date

• October 1, 1978

has restriction

• closed

Date in CU Experts

• February 4, 2015 9:13 AM

Full Author List

• Nicholson DR; Goldman MV

author count

• 2

published in

• Physics of Fluids  Journal

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International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

• 0031-9171

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• https://doi.org/10.1063/1.862093

Additional Document Info

start page

• 1766

end page

• 1776

volume

• 21

issue

• 10