STABILITY OF DOUBLE LAYERS IN PLASMA

Abstract

The properties of the electrostatic double layers in the non-collisional plasma have been investigated. The conditions on the stability of the double layers on base of the linearized equations for disturbances have been revealed. It has been shown that in beam double layer in the unlimited system only the convective instabilities can appear out the field of the potential drop. At presence of the conducting boundaries the development of the vibration type absolute instability is possible. The work results can be used for analysis of the data of laboratory and cosmic experiments on the investigation of the double layersAvailable from VNTIC / VNTIC - Scientific & Technical Information Centre of RussiaSIGLERURussian Federatio