Temperature Effects on the Beat Heating of a Collisional Magnetoplasma

Autor: B. B. Arora, D. R. Phalswal, N. L. Varma
Rok vydání: 1983
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Zdroj: Beiträge aus der Plasmaphysik. 23:261-269
ISSN: 1521-3986
0005-8025
DOI: 10.1002/ctpp.19830230306
Popis: The beat heating of a magneto-plasma by two antiparallel electromagnetic waves at different temperatures is examined. The effects of plasma temperature, plasma electron collisions, plasma ion collisions and magnitude and direction of the magnetic field on the excitation of plasma electron waves and plasma ion waves are studied. A formula for the power absorption density of the plasma by using Maxwell's equations in conjuction with continuity and momentum equation. including collisions and pressure tensor terms, is derived. The contribution of the plasma temperature to the power absorption density, both at low and high beat frequencies, of the collisional and the non-collisional magnetised plasmas is found very significant and is illustrated numerically. The inclusion of pressure tensor term in the momentum equation is also found to cause characteristic changes in the power absorption density of the plasma with the orientation of magnetic field.
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