Trapping oscillations, discrete particle effects and kinetic theory of collisionless plasma
Plasma Physics
2009-11-07 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Chaotic Dynamics
Computational Physics
Abstract
Effects induced by the finite number of particles on the evolution of a monochromatic electrostatic perturbation in a collisionless plasma are investigated. For growth as well as damping of a single wave, discrete particle numerical simulations show a -dependent long time behavior which differs from the numerical errors incurred by vlasovian approaches and follows from the pulsating separatrix crossing dynamics of individual particles.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0103025,
title = {Trapping oscillations, discrete particle effects and kinetic theory of collisionless plasma},
author = {F. Doveil and M-C. Firpo and Y. Elskens and D. Guyomarc'h and M. Poleni and P. Bertrand},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0103025},
year = {2009}
}
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