Ion-acoustic double layers in a magnetized plasma
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 29 (3) , 714-717
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.865924
Abstract
Solutions for double layers (DL), propagating obliquely to the magnetic field with a speed near the slow ion-acoustic velocity are presented. Using fluid equations for the ions and an arbitrary equation of state for the electrons, it is shown that in such a system, DL solutions exist for the two-electron Boltzmann model. No DL exists when the electrons are isothermal, and when the free and reflected electrons are described by Maxwell distributions.Keywords
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