Nonlinear Modulated Envelope Electrostatic Wavepacket Propagation in Space and Laboratory Plasmas

Details Nonlinear Modulated Envelope Electrostatic Wavepacket Propagation in Space and Laboratory Plasmas Nonlinear Modulated Envelope Electrostatic Wavepacket Propagation in Space and Laboratory Plasmas

Dec 2004

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THE PHYSICS OF IONIZED GASES: 22nd Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases; Invited Lectures,

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Electromagnetic Waves, Solitons, Bgk Modes, Dusty Or Complex Plasmas, Plasma Crystals, Laboratory Studies Of Space- And Astrophysical-Plasma Processes, Magnetohydrodynamics And Plasmas

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A brief review of the occurrence of amplitude modulated structures in space and laboratory plasmas is provided, followed by a theoretical analysis of the mechanism of carrier wave (self-) interaction, with respect to electrostatic plasma modes. A generic collisionless unmagnetized fluid model is employed. Both cold-(zero-temperature) and warm-(finite temperature) fluid descriptions are considered and compared. The weakly nonlinear oscillation regime is investigated by applying a multiple scale (reductive perturbation) technique and a Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation (NLSE) is obtained, describing the evolution of the slowly varying wave amplitude in time and space. The amplitude's stability profile reveals the possibility of modulational instability to occur under the influence of external perturbations. The NLSE admits exact localized envelope (solitary wave) solutions of bright (pulses) or dark (holes, voids) type, whose characteristics depend on intrinsic plasma parameters. The role of perturbation obliqueness (with respect to the propagation direction), finite temperature and - possibly - defect (dust) concentration is explicitly considered. The relevance of this description with respect to known electron-ion (e-i) as well as dusty (complex) plasma modes is briefly discussed.

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