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By A. I. Akhiezer, I. A. Akhiezer, R. V. Polovin, D. Ter Haar
From the intro: houses of plasmas as a particular kingdom of topic are to a massive volume decided by way of the truth that there are among the debris which represent the plasma electromagnetic forces which act over macroscopic distances. approaches taking place in a plasma are as a result ordinarily followed through the excitation of electromagnetic fields which play a primary position within the approach those methods strengthen. The electromagnetic interactions which expand over macroscopic distances appear firstly within the prevalence within the plasma of collective oscillations during which a great number of debris takes half concurrently. The life of those particular collective electromagnetic oscillations is simply as a lot a attribute of a plasma as a particular nation of subject as, for example, the crystalline ordering is for the cast nation of topic. This explains where occupied in plasma physics through plasma electrodynamics, that's, the speculation of electromagnetic fields in a plasma-and, within the first example, the speculation of electromagnetic oscillations of a plasma-and the speculation of macroscopic electric and magnetic houses of a plasma. Such difficulties because the thought of magnetic traps, the matter of plasma heating by means of exterior fields or currents, and the speculation of instabilities in a non-uniform plasma belong additionally to the sector of plasma electrodynamics in its widest experience. we will now not contemplate those difficulties within the current book-not simply because they don't seem to be vital; on the contrary, they're of serious significance. We limit ourselves to an exposition of the idea of the electromagnetic houses of a uniform plasma as this conception is the root of the total of plasma electrodynamics
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R)-/coXA) t) d^k, where ω/Λ) and A^ik) are the frequency and amplitude of the magneto-hydrodynamic wave of the kind considered with wavevector ft, while the integration is over a small volume in ft-space near the point ft = fto. Putting coXfto) + ( i / y . »·)-/ωΧΑο)<], ^ ^λ: sz where I, = (X- Ujj) Akx, = {y- Ujyt) Aky, ξ . = ( Z " Upt) Akz, while Ak^, Aky, and Ak^ are the intervals in which the wavevector components lie. It follows from this formula that the wavepacket is appreciably different from zero only when the quantities and |^ are small (I ;S 1).
14). 3. TRANSITION FROM THE KINETIC TO THE HYDRODYNAMICAL DESCRIPTION Let us now elucidates the idea of deriving the hydrodynamical equations from the kinetic equations. 1) where F is the force acting upon a particle for which we shall take the Lorentz force. 2) which is a quadratic functional of the distribution function / = / ( r , r, /). 2) 0. 3) = 0. From these relations we can obtain the hydrodynamical equations. 4) One sees easily that the last term vanishes. Indeed, writing it in the form \m dv J CO m \ J mc Τ [vABl,^d% we find after integrating the second term by parts and applying Gauss's theorem to the first term: \m \ dO) J ) mc τ^ where » i s a unit vector normal to the surface of integration.
1 that the Coulomb interaction is screened at a distance of the order of the Debye radius γ ^ . 5] KINETIC A N D HYDRODYNAMIC METHODS One easily checks that this condition follows from the condition ξ 1 provided the ions have a non-relativistic temperature, 0¡ « : mf^. 1 some data about the parameters in some different plasmas (Polovin and Cherkasova, 1963; Alfvén and Fälthammer, 1963; Lehnert, 1959). T a b l e 1 . 5 . 5 . 1 . 1. 1. PHASE VELOCITIES AND POLARIZATION We shall now consider systematically the oscillations which can be excited and which can propagate in a plasma.