Electron holes and their role in the dynamics of current-carrying weakly collisional plasmas. Part 2. Mobile ions
- 1 October 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Plasma Physics
- Vol. 56 (2) , 339-359
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022377800019292
Abstract
New dissipative structural equilibria of the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck-Poisson system in a current-carrying plasma with mobile ions are presented. The dynamical evolution towards these final equilibrium states is explored. First consequences for the parallel transport are derived and it is shown that the anomalous resistivity depends on non-symmetric distortions of the electron distribution function in the thermal range which are affected by collisions and ion mobility. The fundamental role of electron holes as the underlying collisionless structure is emphasized.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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