EXPERIMENTS ON KORTEWEG-DEVRIES SOLITONS IN A POSITIVE ION-NEGATIVE ION PLASMA

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COONEY, JL [1 ]
GAVIN, MT [1 ]
LONNGREN, KE [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV IOWA, DEPT ELECT & COMP ENGN, IOWA CITY, IA 52242 USA
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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS B-PLASMA PHYSICS | 1991年 / 3卷 / 10期
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10.1063/1.859912
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
Experiments on the propagation of ion acoustic solitons that propagate in a positive ion-negative ion plasma are described. The solitons are launched from a solid metal disk to which a small negative step voltage [DELTA-phi almost-equal-to - 2(T(e)/e) V] is applied. The mechanism for the excitation of the soliton, the identification of the fast and the slow modes in such a plasma, and the observation of a transient sheat are presented.
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