• 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