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Transient E‐Mode Propagation in a Plane‐Stratified Plasma
Author(s) -
Hirsch Peter
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
radio science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1944-799X
pISSN - 0048-6604
DOI - 10.1002/rds196724407
Subject(s) - physics , plasma , isotropy , steady state (chemistry) , transient (computer programming) , electric field , logarithm , transverse plane , plane wave , harmonic , electromagnetic radiation , mechanics , computational physics , optics , mathematics , acoustics , mathematical analysis , quantum mechanics , chemistry , structural engineering , computer science , engineering , operating system
When a harmonic steady state electromagnetic wave, polarized in the plane of incidence, propagates in a plane‐stratified isotropic plasma (regarded as a dielectric), the electric field is found to diverge at the level of plasma resonance. It is shown that this physical inconsistency can be removed by discarding the steady state assumption. In the transient case, the field remains finite, but the magnitude of the longitudinal component increases linearly with time, while that of the transverse component increases as the logarithm of the time.