Spatially nonuniform traveling waves bifurcating from single-humped Vlasov equilibria
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· Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (USA)
OSTI ID:5588737
The results summarized here for traveling wave solutions near single-humped Vlasov equilibria, combined with those we recently have reported for traveling wave solutions nearby multihumped Vlasov equilibria comprise a nonlinear theory of undamped longitudinal plasma waves, which (a) shows that there exist small-amplitude perturbations of single-humped Vlasov equilibria (predicted to damp by linear analysis) that in fact do not damp, and (b) provides nonlinear wave solutions that are likely candidates for the saturated states of unstable multihumped (e.g., bump-on-the-tail) Vlasov equilibria.
- OSTI ID:
- 5588737
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-881011--
- Conference Information:
- Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (USA) Journal Volume: 57
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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