Driven transverse shear waves in a strongly coupled dusty plasma
Plasma Physics
2008-07-07 v2 General Physics
Abstract
The linear dispersion properties of transverse shear waves in a strongly coupled dusty plasma are experimentally studied by exciting them in a controlled manner with a variable frequency external source. The dusty plasma is maintained in the strongly coupled fluid regime with (1 < Gamma << Gamma_c) where Gamma is the Coulomb coupling parameter and Gamma_c is the crystallization limit. A dispersion relation for the transverse waves is experimentally obtained over a frequency range of 0.1 Hz to 2 Hz and found to show good agreement with viscoelastic theoretical results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0805.4514,
title = {Driven transverse shear waves in a strongly coupled dusty plasma},
author = {P. Bandyopadhyay and G. Prasad and A. Sen and P. K. Kaw},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.4514},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
The manuscripts contains five pages and 6 figures