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On the structure of the boundary layer separating a neutral anisotropic plasma from a magnetic field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Leonard G. Cohen  and
Ira M. Cohen
Leonard G. Cohen
Affiliation:
Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Ira M. Cohen
Affiliation:
The Towne School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Abstract

The structure of the boundary layer separating a collisionless plasma from a one-dimensional magnetic field has been studied for anisotropic particle velocity distribution functions of the form

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where F± is a weighting function, H± is the Hamiltonian, a± is a parameter, pz is generalized momenta, m± is particle mass, and δ is the Dirac delta function. Charge neutrality was preserved throughout the boundary layer and self- consistent solutions were obtained for particles having two or three degrees of freedom and moving against either a plane or circular boundary. The results were compared with those for the structure of a boundary layer consistent with a cold streaming plasma having a particle velocity distribution of the form

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Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 1969 , pp. 311 - 330
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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