| Abstract: | The methods of perturbation theory and statistical averaging over the phases of the oscillations were used to obtain the kinetic wave equations which describe three-plasmon processes involving the merging of two ion-sound waves into a helicon and the scattering of ion-sound by plasma particles with reradiation into a helicon. The rate of accumulation of whistles in a turbulent plasma due to such nonlinear processes is estimated.Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 6, pp. 18–25, November–December, 1970.The author thanks L. L Rudakov for supervising the work. |
