STOCHASTIC PLASMA-HEATING BY ELECTROSTATIC-WAVES - A COMPARISON BETWEEN A PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATION AND A LABORATORY EXPERIMENT

Authors
FIVAZ M FASOLI A APPERT K SKIFF F TRAN TM TRAN MQ
Citation
M. Fivaz et al., STOCHASTIC PLASMA-HEATING BY ELECTROSTATIC-WAVES - A COMPARISON BETWEEN A PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATION AND A LABORATORY EXPERIMENT, Physics letters. A, 182(4-6), 1993, pp. 426-432
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics letters. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
03759601
Volume
182
Issue
4-6
Year of publication
1993
Pages
426 - 432
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9601(1993)182:4-6<426:SPBE-A>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
Dynamical chaos is produced by the interaction between plasma particle s and two electrostatic waves. Experiments performed in a linear magne tized plasma and a ID particle-in-cell simulation agree qualitatively: above a threshold wave amplitude, ion stochastic diffusion and heatin g occur on a fast time scale. Self-consistency appears to limit the ex tent of the heating process.