Accession Number:

AD0747219

Title:

Surfaces Waves in Hot Plasmas,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

UNIVERSITY COLL OF NORTH WALES BANGOR DEPT OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS

Personal Author(s):

• Barr,H. C.
• Boyd,T. J. M.

Report Date:

1972-03-10

Pagination or Media Count:

11.0

Abstract:

Vlasovs equation and the full set of Maxwells equations are solved as an initial value problem in a semi-infinite plasma. On specifying boundary conditions, a dispersion relation is obtained for surface waves in two situations, one without a wave incident on the boundary, the other with such a wave. The former case includes all previous results as special cases. In the latter case, we find that surface waves cannot be excited by a wave incident on the boundary. Author

Descriptors:

• *PLASMAS(PHYSICS)
• BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS
• OSCILLATION
• WAVE FUNCTIONS
• DISPERSION RELATIONS
• PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
• UNITED KINGDOM

Subject Categories:

• Plasma Physics and Magnetohydrodynamics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE