SOLUTION OF THE COLLISIONLESS BOLTZMANN EQUATION USING A DIAGRAM TECHNIQUE
The diagram technique recently developed for the solution of Liouville's equation was extended and suitably modified to cover the case of the collisionless Boltzmann equation for a plasma. The usefulness of the method is demonstrated by two problems. These are: first, the infiuence of a plane polarized electric wave on the electron distribution function of a low- temperature plasma, and second, the propagation of a (small) initial disturbance for the case of a plasma which is governed by the Vlasov equation. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- NSA Number:
- NSA-14-026349
- OSTI ID:
- 4130269
- Journal Information:
- J. Math. Phys., Journal Name: J. Math. Phys. Vol. Vol: 1
- Country of Publication:
- Country unknown/Code not available
- Language:
- English
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