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Plasma Physics
| Dusty Plasmas | Wave-particles

Wave-particle and wave-wave interactions

This project is to investigate collective wave-particle and wave-wave interactions in a plasma. The examples include quasilinear interactions, modulational and decay instabilities, and nonlinear wave-particle processes.

Key Publications

S.V. Vladimirov, V.N. Tsytovich, S.I. Popel, and F.Kh. Khakimov, “Modulational Interactions in Plasmas”, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Dordrecht-Boston-London, 1995), 540 p.

V.S. Krivitsky, V.N. Tsytovich, and S.V. Vladimirov, “Nonlinear Plasma-Maser Effect”, Physics Reports 218, No. 3&4 (1992) 141-214.

S.V. Vladimirov and L. Stenflo, “Three-wave Processes in a Turbulent Nonstationary Plasma”, Physics of Plasmas 4, No. 5 (1997), 1249-1256.

S.V. Vladimirov, L. Stenflo, and M.Y. Yu, “Quasilinear Evolution of Weakly Turbulent Plasmas”, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 68, No. 12 (1999) 3881-3884.

G.Z. Machabeli, S.V. Vladimirov, D.B. Melrose, and Q. Luo, “Particle Acceleration by a Fast Ordinary Mode in an Electron-positron Plasma”, Physics of Plasmas 7, No. 4 (2000) 1280-1286.

 

 


Figure. Distribution function of plasma particles at the moment of the wave saturation.

 

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