EXPERIMENTS AND PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATION ON SELF-OSCILLATIONS AND PERIOD-DOUBLING IN THERMIONIC DISCHARGES AT LOW-PRESSURE

Authors
GREINER F KLINGER T KLOSTERMANN H PIEL A
Citation
F. Greiner et al., EXPERIMENTS AND PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATION ON SELF-OSCILLATIONS AND PERIOD-DOUBLING IN THERMIONIC DISCHARGES AT LOW-PRESSURE, Physical review letters, 70(20), 1993, pp. 3071-3074
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
70
Issue
20
Year of publication
1993
Pages
3071 - 3074
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1993)70:20<3071:EAPSOS>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
The mechanism of different discharge modes, self-oscillations, and the period-doubling route to chaos is studied by comparing experimental r esults from a filament cathode discharge with particle-in-cell simulat ions. The self-oscillation process invokes ion trapping by charge exch ange, double layer formation, and ion depletion. The exhausting of res ources which underlies the period-doubling route is identified with in complete ion refilling.