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Excitation of ion-acoustic waves

Gould, R. W. (1964) Excitation of ion-acoustic waves. Physical Review, 136 (4A). A991-A997. ISSN 0031-899X. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.136.A991. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:GOUpr64

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Abstract

The excitation of ion-acoustic waves by a pair of idealized grids in a collisionless plasma is examined. It is shown that in a limited region, neither too close nor too far from the source, the disturbance closely approximates an exponentially damped (spatially) ion-acoustic wave. Far from the source a weak electron "wave" with less damping and larger wavelength dominates; near the source the potential varies as 1/z.


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Additional Information:© 1964 The American Physical Society. Received 11 May 1964. It is a pleasure to acknowledge several stimulating conversations with B. D. Fried and with M. Feix concerning this problem. This work has been undertaken as part of the joint research program of the Institut fur Plasmaphysik and EURATOM. This work was done while the author held a National Science Fellowship for research at the Institut fur Plasmaphysik.
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DOI:10.1103/PhysRev.136.A991
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