On the nature of "collisionless" Landau damping

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation

Volumn 13, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2008, Pages 18-23

  Bilato, R ^a   Brambilla, M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PLASMAPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Landau damping; Linearized Vlasov equation; Plasmas; Quasilinear diffusion coefficient

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; DIFFUSION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING;

LANDAU DAMPING; QUASILINEAR DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; VLASOV EQUATION;

PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES;

DAMPING; DIFFUSION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES;

EID: 34547398649     PISSN: 10075704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2007.05.007     Document Type: Article

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