STABILITY OF INHOMOGENEOUS PLASMAS,
Abstract
The stability of realistic, inhomogeneous, plasmas with sheaths is studied by examining the interaction between an electron beam and the discrete, longitudinal, normal modes of a stable, Maxwellian plasma. A weak beam just displaces the discrete plasma eigenfrequencies in a way depending on beam current and energy. For the first four eigenfrequencies we calculate omega-plane maps. Instability is confined to a few intermediate modes, and growth rates are not large. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1969
- Accession Number
- AD0692675
Entities
People
- C. H. Love
- William M. Leavens
Organizations
- Boeing