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Single-mode saturation of the bump-on-tail instability

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OSTI ID:7320788
A slightly unstable plasma with only one or a few linear modes unstable is considered. Nonlinear saturation at small amplitudes has been treated by time-asymptotic analysis which is a generalization of the methods of Bogolyubov and co-workers. In this paper the method is applied to instability in a collisionless plasma governed by the vlasov equation. The bump-on-tail instability is considered for a one-dimensional plasma. (MOW)
Research Organization:
Rochester Univ., NY (USA)
OSTI ID:
7320788
Report Number(s):
COO-3497-16; CONF-760983-1
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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