Spectrum of electrostatic modes in a cylindrical non-neutral plasm a of arbitrary density

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 312-328

  Goswami, Priyanka ^a   Bhattacharyya, S N ^a   Sen, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR PLASMA RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Continuous spectrum; Diocotron modes; Electrostatic modes; Finite difference; Non neutral plasma; Non self adjoint eigen value problem; Staggered grid; Surface modes

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROSTATICS;

CONTINUOUS SPECTRUM; DIOCOTRA MODE; EIGEN-VALUE PROBLEMS; ELECTROSTATIC MODE; FINITE DIFFERENCE; NON-SELF-ADJOINT; NON-SELF-ADJOINT EIGEN-VALUE PROBLEM; NONNEUTRAL PLASMA; STAGGERED-GRIDS; SURFACE MODES;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 0347699569     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2000.6447     Document Type: Article

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