Turbulent Heating in Computer Simulations of the Modified Plasma Two-Stream Instability
- 10 January 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 28 (2) , 88-91
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.28.88
Abstract
Computer simulations of the fluidlike modified two-stream instability, driven by relative electron-ion drifts across a magnetic field, show strong anomalous plasma heating. The electron and ion heating rates are comparable and result in ion thermal speeds which approach the relative drift speed within a few ion plasma periods.Keywords
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