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Stability of parallel flow of a multi-component cylindrical plasma to electrostatic perturbations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

R. Lucas
R. Lucas
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616
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Abstract

Sufficient conditions for the stability of parallel flow of a warm N-component cylindrical plasma to electrostatic perturbations are obtained. In the unperturbed state the jth plasma component is assumed to have axial velocity Vj0(r), r being the radial co-ordinate, and the equilibrium quantities are permitted to be arbitrary functions of r consistent with the zeroth-order equations. The L2-norms of certain system variables are shown to be bounded uniformly in time. Circle theorems are obtained for the complex eigenfrequencies of any normal mode.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , October 1981 , pp. 369 - 383
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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