Year: 1967
Type: article
Abstract: This paper was written for the Culham conference two years ago, but owing to circumstances beyond the control of the authors it has not been widely circulated. The paper is, in the main, the presentation of an original method for considering a weakly turbulent plasma. The virtue of this method, as compared with the normal methods which are based on perturbation theory, lies in its simplicity and physical clarity. It was first shown, using just this very method, that a weakly turbulent plasma can exhibit new types of oscillation and instability and that the propagation law for electromagnetic waves is substantially altered. There has now begun a wide experimental study of plasma turbulence. The method presented here for theoretically discussing turbulence enables new results to be easily obtained. It is relatively simple to understand and can be grasped by non-theoreticians. The authors therefore consider that the publication of this article serves a useful purpose.
Source: Plasma Physics
Authors: A A Vedenov, A V Gordeev, L I Rudakov
Institution: Kurchatov Institute
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2092524255