Saturation of Nonlinear Explosive Instabilities
- 17 November 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 23 (20), 1149-1151
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.23.1149
Abstract
The saturation of linear or nonlinearly (explosively) unstable high-frequency, electrostatic flute modes in a mirror-confined plasma is discussed. The mechanism proposed is the perturbation of particle orbits by the wave electric fields.Keywords
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