DocumentCode
1219564
Title
Landau Damping for Students Part II Boundary Value Problem
Author
Ishihara, Osamu ; Alexeff, Igor
Author_Institution
The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee 37916
Volume
4
Issue
1
fYear
1976
fDate
3/1/1976 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
25
Lastpage
27
Abstract
By setting the frequency ¿ in Vlasov´s equation to a complex number, we have been able to remove the singularity in the integrand that has, in our own experience, caused our students so much trouble in the past. The resulting proper integrals are real, easily evaluated by elementary means, and yield correctly Landau´s value for growth (and by extension, damping). The basic point in Justifying the derivation is that Landau damping for the student is no longer a mysterious phenomenon, obtained only via complex, contour integration, but an easily computed fact.
Keywords
Boundary value problems; Damping; Partial differential equations; Physics; Probability distribution; Resonance; TV;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0093-3813
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TPS.1976.4316927
Filename
4316927
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