Ion-Acoustic Instability of a Two-Temperature, Collisional, Fully Ionized Plasma
- 20 September 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 27 (12) , 792-795
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.27.792
Abstract
From a perturbation analysis of the fluid equations for a homogeneous, unmagnetized plasma it is shown that long-wavelength ion waves are unstable when . The additional destabilizing effect of a current is also investigated.
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