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Resonant effect of the noncircular shape of the plasma surface on the dispersion properties of extraordinary azimuthal surface modes in magnetoactive waveguides

Journal Article · · Plasma Physics Reports
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  1. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine)
A theoretical study is made of the resonant effect of the shape of the cross section of the plasma column on the propagation of a packet of extraordinary electromagnetic waves with a zero axial wavenumber in a circular-cross-section cylindrical metal waveguide in an axial magnetic field. The waveguide is assumed to be partially filled with a plasma. The effect of the noncircular shape of the plasma cross section on the dispersion properties of surface eigenmodes propagating strictly transverse to the external magnetic field is investigated by the method of successive approximations for the case in which the angular period of the wave perturbations is twice the ripple period of the interface between the plasma and the dielectric. In this resonant case, the fields and eigenfrequencies of the eigenmodes are determined to second order in the small parameter describing the rippling of the plasma-dielectric interface.
OSTI ID:
21100161
Journal Information:
Plasma Physics Reports, Journal Name: Plasma Physics Reports Journal Issue: 7 Vol. 33; ISSN PPHREM; ISSN 1063-780X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English