Ядерна фізика та енергетика Nuclear Physics and Atomic Energy   ISSN: 1818-331X (Print), 2074-0565 (Online)   Publisher: Institute for Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine   Languages: Ukrainian, English   Periodicity: 4 times per year   Open access peer reviewed journal

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V. B. Taranov

Abstract: Drift-ion-sound standing waves are considered in a magnetized inhomogeneous plasma. Effects of three dimensionality, dispersion and vortex nonlinearity are taken into account. Perturbation theory solution is obtained by the multiple-time-scale formalism. It is shown that no secular terms are present up to the second order in amplitude and that second order corrections are homogeneous in the drift direction.

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