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Properties and evolution of anisotropic structures in collisionless plasmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2016

A. R. Karimov ,
M. Y. Yu  and
L. Stenflo
A. R. Karimov*
Affiliation:
Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Izhorskaya 13/19, Moscow, 127412, Russia Department of Electrophysical Facilities, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Kashirskoye shosse 31, Moscow, 115409, Russia
M. Y. Yu
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, 310027 Hangzhou, China Institut für Theoretische Physik I, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
L. Stenflo
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Linköping University, SE-58183 Linköping, Sweden
*
†Email address for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

A new class of exact electrostatic solutions of the Vlasov–Maxwell equations based on the Jeans’s theorem is proposed for studying the evolution and properties of two-dimensional anisotropic plasmas that are far from thermodynamic equilibrium. In particular, the free expansion of a slab of electron–ion plasma into vacuum is investigated.

Keywords

plasma expansionplasma flowsplasma nonlinear phenomena
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 82 , Issue 5 , October 2016 , 905820502
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2016 

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