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Analytic BGK modes and their modulational instability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Hans Schamel
Hans Schamel
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik und Astrophysik, Munich
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Physically acceptable solutions of the time-independent Vlasov–Poisson system are found by applying a method which is analogous to the soliton method in Korteweg–de Vries theory. Cnoidal wave solutions for small-amplitude Langmuir and ion acoustic waves are derived, in which the nonlinearity is determined by trapped electrons. The class of weakly distorted waves is shown to be modulational unstable.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , February 1975 , pp. 139 - 145
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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