Rescaling methods and plasma expansions into vacuum
作者:
G. Manfredi,
S. Mola,
M. R. Feix,
期刊:
Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics
(AIP Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 5,
issue 2
页码: 388-401
ISSN:0899-8221
年代: 1993
DOI:10.1063/1.860524
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
The problem of a two‐component, collisionless plasma expansion into vacuum is investigated from the viewpoint of the Vlasov–Poisson model. The set of equations is treated both analytically (through the rescaling transformations) and numerically, using a one‐dimensional Eulerian code. In planar geometry, the rescaling allows to conjecture the existence of a self‐similar expansion over long times. Numerical results subsequently confirm the conjecture and show that the plasma becomes neutral over a smaller and smaller scale. A few thermodynamical properties are studied: the temperature is shown to decrease ast−2; the polytropic relation (d/dt)(pn−&ggr;)=0 (with &ggr;=3) is verified asymptotically via a semianalytical argument. Finally, the same problem is studied in a spherical one‐dimensional geometry. The time‐asymptotic solution is again self‐similar. Numerical simulations show that a non‐neutral, multiple‐layer structure appears, which is proved to be stable over long times.
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