Evolution of the electron cyclotron drift instability in two-dimensions

Janhunen, Salomon; Smolyakov, Andrei; Sydorenko, Dmytro; Jimenez, Marilyn; Kaganovich, Igor; Raitses, Yevgeny

doi:10.1063/1.5033896

Title: Evolution of the electron cyclotron drift instability in two-dimensions

Journal Article · Tue Aug 14 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5033896· OSTI ID:1543865

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Univ. of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK (Canada)
Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (Canada)
Princeton Univ./Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, Princeton, NJ (United States)

The Electron Cyclotron Drift Instability driven by the electron E × B drift in partially magnetized plasmas is investigated with highly resolved particle-in-cell simulations. The emphasis is on two-dimensional effects involving the parallel dynamics along the magnetic field in a finite length plasma with dielectric walls. It is found that the instability develops as a sequence of growing cyclotron harmonics demonstrating wave breaking and complex nonlinear interactions, being particularly pronounced in ion density fluctuations at short wavelengths. At the same time, nonlinear evolution of fluctuations of the ion and electron density, as well as the anomalous electron current, shows cascade toward long wavelengths. Tendency to generate long wavelength components is most clearly observed in the spectra of the electron density and the anomalous current fluctuations. An intense but slowly growing mode with a distinct eigen-mode structure along the magnetic field develops at a later nonlinear stage enhancing the tendency toward long wavelength condensation. Furthermore, the latter mode having a finite wavelength along the magnetic field is identified as the Modified Two-Stream Instability (MTSI). It is shown that the MTSI mode results in strong parallel heating of electrons.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

OSTI ID:: 1543865

Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 25, Issue 8; ISSN 1070-664X

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