Anomalous Skin Effect for Anisotropic Electron Velocity Distribution Function

Technical Report · Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 EST 2004

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/821688· OSTI ID:821688

Kaganovich, Igor; Startsev, Edward; Shvets, Gennady

The anomalous skin effect in a plasma with a highly anisotropic electron velocity distribution function (EVDF) is very different from skin effect in a plasma with the isotropic EVDF. An analytical solution was derived for the electric field penetrated into plasma with the EVDF described as a Maxwellian with two temperatures Tx >> Tz, where x is the direction along the plasma boundary and z is the direction perpendicular to the plasma boundary. The skin layer was found to consist of two distinctive regions of width of order nTx/w and nTz/w, where nTx,z/w = (Tx,z/m)1/2 is the thermal electron velocity and w is the incident wave frequency.

• Research Organization: Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03073
• OSTI ID: 821688
• Report Number(s): PPPL-3925; TRN: US0401028
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: 19 Feb 2004
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
ANALYTICAL SOLUTION
DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
ELECTRIC FIELDS
ELECTRONS
PLASMA
SKIN EFFECT
VELOCITY