TRANSIENTS IN ELECTRON PLASMAS.

Abstract

It is shown that evanescent Bohm and Gross waves and Van Kampen modes are both aspects of one and the same analytic wave function and thus really do not exist independently. This new wave function is subject to the Fried and Conte dispersion relation, casual in nature, and rigorously describes electrostatic events in plasmas. In fact it was found possible to solve the age old problem of constructing the Green's function from these waves. By means of this Green's function the signal propagating through the plasma due to any other mode of excitation can be obtained by simple convolution. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0697947

Entities

People

  • Heinrich Derfler
  • T. C. Simonen

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Convolution
  • Dispersion Relations
  • Dispersions
  • Electronics
  • Electrons
  • Excitation
  • Wave Functions

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics