Jeans instability and hydrodynamic roots of Landau damping
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2015-08-18 v1 Plasma Physics
Abstract
Landau damping of Langmuir waves is shown to have hydrodynamic roots, and, in principle, might have been predicted (along with Langmuir waves) several decades earlier, soon after Jeans (1902) paper appeared.
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@article{arxiv.1508.03809,
title = {Jeans instability and hydrodynamic roots of Landau damping},
author = {Alexander Ershkovich and Arnold Kiv},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.03809},
year = {2015}
}