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Numerical investigation of the two stream instability and resonant heating of an inhomogeneous, axisymmetric, plasma column

Thesis/Dissertation ·
OSTI ID:6630954

The numerical simulation of an axisymmetric, inhomogeneous plasma column for two different problems (namely two stream instability and ion resonant heating) has been considered. In the first part we consider an inhomogeneous, cylindrically axisymmetric electron plasma confined electrostatically by immobile ions and with an external boundary surface. In this model the electron density profile is finite and continuous for all radii p < a, where a is a cut off radius, beyond which the electron contribution to the source terms in the field equations is negligible. In the second part a background of electrons is assumed, on an ion plasma which is described in dimensionless units.

Research Organization:
Kansas Univ., Lawrence (USA)
OSTI ID:
6630954
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
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Heating
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ELECTRON DENSITY
HEATING
INHOMOGENEOUS PLASMA
INSTABILITY
ION TEMPERATURE
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PLASMA HEATING
PLASMA INSTABILITY
PLASMA MICROINSTABILITIES
SIMULATION
SYMMETRY
TWO-STREAM INSTABILITY