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Amplification of nonlinear surface waves in an inhomogeneous transition layer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

G. Brodin  and
O. M. Gradov
G. Brodin
Affiliation:
Department of Plasma Physics, Umeå University, S-901 87 Umeå, Sweden
O. M. Gradov
Affiliation:
N. S. Kurnakov Institute, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Moscow,U.S.S.R.
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Abstract

A plasma with a boundary transition layer of variable depth in the presence of a powerful electromagnetic field is considered. It is shown that a displacement of the boundary will grow, and will propagate as a nonlinear surface wave in the direction in which the depth of the transition layer decreases.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , December 1991 , pp. 459 - 462
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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