Solitary Surface Waves on a Plasma Confined by External Radiation

✍ Scribed by O. M. Gradov; L. Stenflo

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 144 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0005-8025
• DOI: 10.1002/ctpp.19840240603

✦ Synopsis

We consider the nonlinear surface deformation of a plasma-which is confined by external fields. It then turns out that a perturbation of the plasma-vacuum boundary can propagate as a solitary wave with a velocity that depends on the external radiation intensity.