Amplification of sound waves in an imploding plasma shell: Exact results
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 37 (1) , 207-210
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.37.207
Abstract
In an extended model, a rigorous proof is given for sound-wave amplifications in an imploding plasma shell. It is shown that, in the absence of a massless free surface, the boundary conditions give the exact eigenvalues which determine the asymptotic solution to the problem.Keywords
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