Title :
Low-frequency electrostatic instabilities in strongly coupled dusty plasmas
Author :
Xie, Baisong ; Chen, Zhaoyang ; Yu, Ming Y.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Low Energy Nucl. Phys., Beijing Normal Univ., China
fDate :
4/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Low-frequency electrostatic dust-wave instabilities in a plasma containing strongly correlated dust grains and ion flow are investigated. The effects of dust charge relaxation and strong Coulomb coupling are shown to be important in determining the instability behavior. The frequency and growth/damping rates of the waves exhibit transition behavior in the parameter space
Keywords :
damping; dusty plasmas; plasma electrostatic waves; plasma impurities; plasma instability; plasma theory; plasma transport processes; relaxation; damping rates; dust charge relaxation; electrostatic dust-wave instabilities; frequency; growth rates; instability behavior; ion flow; low-frequency electrostatic dust-wave instabilities; low-frequency electrostatic instabilities; parameter space; strong Coulomb coupling; strongly correlated dust grains; strongly coupled dusty plasmas; transition behavior; waves; Dusty plasma; Elasticity; Electrons; Electrostatics; Equations; Frequency; Ionization; Laboratories; Plasma waves; Viscosity;
Journal_Title :
Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
