| Issue |
EPL
Volume 81, Number 1, January 2008
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 15002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Physics of Gases, Plasmas and Electric Discharges | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/81/15002 | |
| Published online | 03 December 2007 | |
Effect of velocity diffusion on the propagation of nonlinear plasma waves
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, and CNISM, Sezione di Cosenza - 87036 Rende (CS), Italy
Received:
28
September
2007
Accepted:
5
November
2007
The propagation of plasma waves in unmagnetized plasmas has been the subject of several numerical and analytical studies since long time and surely represents a problem of crucial importance in plasma physics. In this paper we focus on the production of nonlinear plasma waves as the result of the so-called nonlinear Landau damping phenomenon in a realistic situation, where particle velocity diffusion is taken into account. The nonlinear Landau damping phenomenon of plasma waves has been recently analyzed in laboratory experiments with pure electron plasmas; we numerically reproduce this real experimental situation by means of collisional particle in cell (PIC) simulations that allow us to answer important questions: when and how do collisions affect the launching of nonlinear plasma waves?
PACS: 52.35.Fp – Electrostatic waves and oscillations (e.g., ion-acoustic waves) / 52.35.Mw – Nonlinear phenomena: waves, wave propagation, and other interactions (including parametric effects, mode coupling, ponderomotive effects, etc.) / 52.65.Ff – Fokker-Planck and Vlasov equation
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