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A drift of Langmuir waves in a magnetized inhomogeneous plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2019

Vasily I. Erofeev
Vasily I. Erofeev*
Affiliation:
Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Koptyug Prosp., 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova Str., Novosibirsk, Russia
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†Email address for correspondence: yerofeyev@iae.nsk.su
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Abstract

The concept of informativeness of nonlinear plasma physics scenarios is explained. Natural ideas of developing highly informative models of plasma kinetics are spelled out. They are applied to develop a formula that governs the drift of long Langmuir waves in spatial positions and wave vectors in a magnetized plasma due to the plasma inhomogeneity. Together with previous findings (Erofeev, Phys. Plasmas, vol. 22, 2015, 092302), the formula evidences the need for an intelligent generalization of the notion of wave energy density from usual homogeneous plasmas to inhomogeneous ones.

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fusion plasmaplasma nonlinear phenomenaplasma waves

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 85 , Issue 1 , February 2019 , 905850104
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