ON WAVE PROPAGATION IN A LINEARIZED, VERTICALLY INHOMOGENEOUS PARTIALLY IONIZED GAS; FORMULATION AND MATHEMATICAL METHODOLOGY
- 30 September 1965
- report
- Published by Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
Abstract
The problem of wave propagation in a linearized 3-component (electron, ion, neutral) gas is discussed for the case where the ambient gas parameters are arbitrary functions of the vertical coordinate in z and uniform with respect to time and the horizontal coordinates. The formulation of the problem from the Boltzmann equation to a system of simultaneous coupled linear algebraic and first order differential equations in z is discussed in some detail in the first part of the report. In the second part, mathematical methods of dealing with such systems are treated, culminating in a discussion of the numerical method finally chosen and the computer program used to obtain solutions.Keywords
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