Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
2012-04-23
Physics
Plasma Physics
15 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Phys Rev E
Scientific paper
Large-scale particle-in-cell calculations of the plasma wake interactions of two negatively charged grains smaller than the Debye length are carried out using the COPTIC code over a wide range of subsonic plasma flow velocities. In plasmas with temperature ratio $T_e/T_i=100$, it is found that a single grain's oscillatory wake disappears for flow Mach numbers ($M$) less than approximately 0.3, which is the parameter regime where Landau damping is expected to be strong. Neutral collisions suppress potential oscillations above $M=0.3$, but not the trailing attractive potential peak caused by ion focussing. The transverse (grain-aligning) force on a downstream particle in the wake of another is obtained rigorously from the code in three-dimensional simulations. It shows general agreement with the force that would be deduced from the single-grain wake potential gradient. Except for relatively large grains in the nonlinear collisional regime, the grain-aligning force is very small for slow flow.
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