Electrostatic parametric resonances in a plasma revisited

Journal of Plasma Physics

Volumn 55, Issue PART 3, 1996, Pages 359-385

  Mckenzie, J F ^a,b   Hagfors, T ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTROSTATICS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; IONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NUMERICAL METHODS; RESONANCE; WAVE PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

ELECTRON PERTURBATION DENSITIES; ELECTROSTATIC PARAMETRIC RESONANCES; ION ACOUSTIC WAVE; ION PLASMA FREQUENCY; LANGMUIR ION ACOUSTIC MODES; SILIN DISPERSION EQUATION; UNMAGNETIZED PLASMA; UNSHIFTED LANGMUIR WAVE; ZAKHAROV MODEL;

PLASMA STABILITY;

EID: 0030167903     PISSN: 00223778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0022377800018912     Document Type: Article

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