Formation of ion-acoustic double layers
- 1 June 1983
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 26 (6) , 1584-1586
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.864293
Abstract
The formation of an ion‐acoustic double layer from a potential well is studied by computer simulation and explained by a modified Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation taking into account the reflections of the electrons.Keywords
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