Adiabatic Time Development of Plasma Sheaths
- 1 February 1965
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 8 (2) , 308-314
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1761224
Abstract
The formation of the electromagnetic sheath separating a field free Maxwellian plasma from a confining field is treated by an adiabatic approximation. It is found that the condition imposed by the approximation is not severe. Solutions are shown for several values of the ion-electron temperature ratio. The problem is done in plane symmetry and with the collisionless approximation. The question of stability is not considered.Keywords
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