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Kinetic Solitary Electrostatic Structures in Collisionless Plasma: Phase-Space Holes
I H Hutchinson
The physics of isolated plasma potential structures sustained by a deficit of phase-space density on trapped orbits, commonly known as electron or ion holes, is reviewed. The princ…
Multimode theory of electron hole transverse instability
Xiang Chen, I H Hutchinson
We present Vlasov-Poisson 3-D linear stability analysis of an initially planar electron hole structure, solving for the distribution function by integration along unperturbed orbit…
Electron phase-space hole transverse instability at high magnetic field
I H Hutchinson
Analytic treatment is presented of the electrostatic instability of an initially planar electron hole in a plasma of effectively infinite particle magnetization. It is shown that t…
Plasma electron-hole kinematics: momentum conservation
I H Hutchinson, C T Zhou
We analyse the kinematic properties of a plasma electron hole: a non-linear self-sustained localized positive electric potential perturbation, trapping electrons, that behaves as a…
Non-linear Plasma Wake Growth of Electron Holes
I. H. Hutchinson, C. B. Haakonsen, C. Zhou
An object's wake in a plasma with small Debye length that drifts \emph{across} the magnetic field is subject to electrostatic electron instabilities. Such situations include, for e…
Particle in cell calculation of plasma force on a small grain in a non-uniform collisional sheath
I H Hutchinson
The plasma force on grains of specified charge and height in a collisional DC plasma sheath are calculated using the multidimensional particle in cell code COPTIC. The background i…
Collisional Effects on Nonlinear Ion Drag Force for Small Grains
I. H. Hutchinson, C. B. Haakonsen
The ion drag force arising from plasma flow past an embedded spherical grain is calculated self-consistently and non-linearly using particle in cell codes, accounting for ion-neutr…
Intergrain forces in low Mach-number plasma wakes
I. H. Hutchinson
Large-scale particle-in-cell calculations of the plasma wake interactions of two negatively charged grains smaller than the Debye length are carried out using the COPTIC code over…
Ion collection by oblique surfaces of an object in a transversely-flowing strongly-magnetized plasma
I. H. Hutchinson
The equations governing a collisionless obliquely-flowing plasma around an ion-absorbing object in a strong magnetic field are shown to have an exact analytic solution even for arb…