Yamada T, Itoh SI, Inagaki S, Nagashima Y, Kasuya N, Kamataki K, Arakawa H, Kobayashi T, Yagi M, Fujisawa A, Itoh K. Observation of quasi-two-dimensional nonlinear interactions in a drift-wave streamer.
Phys Rev Lett 2010;
105:225002. [PMID:
21231392 DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.105.225002]
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Abstract
A streamer, which is a bunching of drift-wave fluctuations, and its mediator, which generates the streamer by coupling with other fluctuations, have been observed in a cylindrical magnetized plasma. Their radial structures were investigated in detail by using the biphase analysis. Their quasi-two-dimensional structures were revealed to be equivalent with a pair of fast and slow modes predicted by a nonlinear Schrödinger equation based on the Hasegawa-Mima model.
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