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Growth‐rates of unstable Ion‐Sound waves in a constant electric field
Author(s) -
Gratzl Herbert
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
beiträge aus der plasmaphysik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1521-3986
pISSN - 0005-8025
DOI - 10.1002/ctpp.19710110609
Subject(s) - electric field , ion , electron , constant (computer programming) , physics , atomic physics , field (mathematics) , acoustic wave , materials science , acoustics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , computer science , pure mathematics , programming language
Abstract A constant electric field changes the linear growth rates of ion sound waves. The corrections are small, if the field energy is lower than the electron thermal energy times the ratio of electron to ion mass. They depend also on the nonlinear variation of the particle distributions.