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Fractional harmonics in a plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

G. J. Lewak
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Physics and Information Science, University of California, San Diego
H. J. Lee
Affiliation:
Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences,University of California, San Diego

Extract

The most common approach to the study of plasma nonlinearities is by a form of perturbation theory which first studies the linearized equations, then evaluates effects of nonlinearities in terms of these linear solutions. Such an approach is probably justifiable for the effect of weak nonlinearities, but will almost certainly miss features that are exclusively nonlinear in nature (i.e. effects which cannot be described by modifying linear theory, or effects which are present only when e.g. a source of disturbances in a plasma reaches a certain threshold amplitude). It is the object of this paper to investigate one possible such nonlinear effect.

Type
Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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