Studies of Plasma Instability Processes Excited by Ground Based High Power HF (Heating) Facilities

Abstract

This report results from a contract tasking P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics as follows: The contractor will develop the theory of ionospheric heating and quantitatively compare the Gurevich theoretical calculations (driven by measured input boundary conditions) to actual existing data. They will, jointly with PL scientists, design and implement experiments to iterate comparison of refined experiment to refined theory. The theory, the incoherent scatter radar data, and supporting observations will be used to pursue electron acceleration mechanisms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA353470

Entities

People

  • Alex Gurevich

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coordinate Systems
  • Electric Fields
  • Electrons
  • Equations
  • Frequency
  • Geometry
  • Grids
  • Ground Based
  • Group Velocity
  • Instability
  • Latitude
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Observation
  • Plasma Instabilities
  • Radio Waves
  • Scattering
  • Wave Propagation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics