Complete spectrum of kinetic eigenmodes for plasma oscillations in a weakly collisional plasma |
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Authors: | Ng C S Bhattacharjee A Skiff F |
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Institution: | Space Science Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA. |
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Abstract: | Kinetic eigenmodes of plasma oscillations in a weakly collisional plasma, described by a collision operator of the Fokker-Planck type, are obtained in closed form for initial-value as well as for boundary-value problems. These eigenmodes, which are smooth and compose a complete discrete spectrum, play the same role for weakly collisional plasmas as the Case-Van Kampen modes do for collisionless plasmas. |
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