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Island formation in collisionless kinetic plasmas with perturbed orbits
Benjamin J. Q. Woods
In the vinicity of phase-space resonances for a given species of plasma, the particle distribution function is flattened as free energy is exchanged between the plasma and resonant…
physics.plasm-ph2019
Analytical solutions for nonlinear plasma waves with time-varying complex frequency
Benjamin J. Q. Woods
Bernstein-Kruskal-Greene (or BGK) modes are ubiquitous nonlinear solutions for the 1D electrostatic Vlasov equation, with the particle distribution function given as a function…