Abstract
Through particle-in-cell simulations and analytics, a host of interesting and novel wave effects in nonstationary plasma are examined. In particular, Langmuir waves serve as a model system to explore wave dynamics in plasmas undergoing compression, expansion, and charge recombination. The entire wave life-cycle is explored, including wave excitation, adiabatic evolution and action conservation, nonadiabatic evolution and resonant wave-particle effects, collisional dissipation, and potential laboratory applications of the aforementioned phenomenology.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 056302 |
Journal | Physics of Plasmas |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2013 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Condensed Matter Physics