Effects of Inhomogeneities in Plasma Density on the Beam-Plasma Instability and Landau Damping
- 1 January 1972
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 15 (1) , 171-177
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1693735
Abstract
A numerical computer simulation using a charge sheet model is employed to investigate the beam‐plasma instability and Landau damping in a one‐dimensional, finite‐length, inhomogeneous plasma. The results confirm the theoretical predictions that the inhomogeneities in plasma density distribution reduce the spatial growth rate of the beam‐plasma instability and increase the Landau damping rateKeywords
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