Amplitude equations for electrostatic waves: Multiple species

DOI10.1063/1.532635zbMATH Open0946.76102arXivpatt-sol/9706001OpenAlexW3100971258MaRDI QIDQ4701663FDOQ4701663

Authors: John David Crawford, Anandhan Jayaraman 

Publication date: 21 November 1999

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The amplitude equation for an unstable electrostatic wave is analyzed using an expansion in the mode amplitude $A(t)$. In the limit of weak instability, i.e. $gammao{0}^{+}$ where $gamma$ is the linear growth rate, the nonlinear coefficients are singular and their singularities predict the dependence of $A(t)$ on $gamma$. Generically the scaling $|A(t)|=gamm{a}^{5/2}r(gammat)$ as $gammao{0}^{+}$ is required to cancel the coefficient singularities to all orders. This result predicts the electric field scaling $|E_k|simgamm{a}^{5/2}$ will hold universally for these instabilities (including beam-plasma and two-stream configurations) throughout the dynamical evolution and in the time-asymptotic state. In exceptional cases, such as infinitely massive ions, the coefficients are less singular and the more familiar trapping scaling $|E_k|simgamm{a}^2$ is recovered.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9706001

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zbMATH Keywords

amplitude equationelectric field scalingexpansion in mode amplitudelimit of weak instabilityunstable electrostatic wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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