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Hauptverfasser: Frank, S. J., Wright, J. C., Bonoli, P. T.
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Veröffentlicht: 2022
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10214
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author Frank, S. J.
Wright, J. C.
Bonoli, P. T.
author_facet Frank, S. J.
Wright, J. C.
Bonoli, P. T.
contents Treatments of plasma waves usually assume homogeneity, but the parallel gradients ubiquitous in plasmas can modify wave propagation and absorption. We derive a quasilocal inhomogeneous correction to the plasma dielectric for arbitrary distributions by expanding the phase correlation integral and develop a novel integration technique that allows our correction to be applied in many situations and has greater accuracy than other inhomogeneous dielectric formulas found in the literature. We apply this dielectric tensor to the lower-hybrid current drive problem and demonstrate that inhomogeneous wave damping does not affect the lower-hybrid wave's linear damping condition, and in the non-Maxwellian problem damping and propagation should remain unchanged except in the case of waves with very large phase velocities.
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spellingShingle A quasi-local inhomogeneous dielectric tensor for arbitrary distribution functions
Frank, S. J.
Wright, J. C.
Bonoli, P. T.
Plasma Physics
Treatments of plasma waves usually assume homogeneity, but the parallel gradients ubiquitous in plasmas can modify wave propagation and absorption. We derive a quasilocal inhomogeneous correction to the plasma dielectric for arbitrary distributions by expanding the phase correlation integral and develop a novel integration technique that allows our correction to be applied in many situations and has greater accuracy than other inhomogeneous dielectric formulas found in the literature. We apply this dielectric tensor to the lower-hybrid current drive problem and demonstrate that inhomogeneous wave damping does not affect the lower-hybrid wave's linear damping condition, and in the non-Maxwellian problem damping and propagation should remain unchanged except in the case of waves with very large phase velocities.
title A quasi-local inhomogeneous dielectric tensor for arbitrary distribution functions
topic Plasma Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10214