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Electron-temperature-gradient-driven drift waves and anomalous electron energy transport

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

P. K. Shukla ,
G. Murtaza  and
J. Weiland
P. K. Shukla
Affiliation:
Institut für Theoretische Physik IV, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-4630 Bochum 1, Federal Republic of Germany
G. Murtaza
Affiliation:
Institut für Theoretische Physik IV, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-4630 Bochum 1, Federal Republic of Germany
J. Weiland
Affiliation:
Institute for Electromagnetic Field Theory, and EURATOM Fusion Research, Chalmers University of Technology, S-41296 Göteborg, Sweden
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Abstract

By means of a kinetic description for ions and Braginskii's fluid model for electrons, we derive three coupled nonlinear equations governing the dynamics of low-frequency short-wavelength electrostatic waves in the presence of equilibrium density, temperature and magnetic-field gradients in a two-component magnetized plasma. In the linear limit we present a dispersion relation that admits new instabilities of drift waves. An estimate of the anomalous electron energy transport due to non-thermal drift waves is obtained by making use of the saturated wave potential, which is deduced from the mixing-length hypothesis. We also present stationary solutions of the nonlinear equations governing the interaction of linearly unstable drift waves. The relevance of our investigation to wave phenomena in space and laboratory plasmas is pointed out.

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Research Article
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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , December 1990 , pp. 393 - 404
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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