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Electrostatic heat flux instabilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

S. Peter Gary
S. Peter Gary
Affiliation:
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California, Los Alamos, NM 87545
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Abstract

The linear Vlasov dispersion relation for electrostatic waves in a homogeneous plasma is studied for instabilities driven by an electron heat flux. A two Maxwellian model of the electron distribution function gives rise to three unstable modes: the electron beam, ion-acoustic and ion cyclotron heat flux instabilities. At large Te/Ti the ion-acoustic instability has the lowest threshold; at small Te/Ti the electron beam instability is dominant; and at intermediate values of Te/Ti the ion cyclotron mode is the first to go unstable. The presence of a high energy tail on the electron distribution function raises the value of the dimensionless heat flux qe/(nemev3e) at the ion-acoustic threshold, but increasing atomic number of the ions decreases this value.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , August 1978, pp. 47 - 60
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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