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Dispersion in inhomogeneous plasma streams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

P. B. Burt
Affiliation:
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Abstract

The instabilities in a two stream plasma in which the density across the stream is variable are studied from the point of view of a scattering problem. Approximate dispersion relations are developed, one of which is identical with the infinite, homogeneous case. A second relation is obtained which depends upon the scale of density variation.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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