Publication: Local analysis of electrostatic modes in a two-fluid E × B plasma
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2021-05-26
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A local study of linear electrostatic modes, applicable to the dynamics perpendicular to the magnetic field in a plasma with crossed electric and magnetic fields, is presented. The analysis is based on a two-fluid model that takes into account the finite-electron-gyroradius effects
through a rigorous gyroviscosity tensor and includes a dissipative friction force in the electron momentum equation. A comprehensive dispersion relation, valid for arbitrary electron temperature, is derived, which describes properly all the relevant waves for wavelengths longer than the electron Larmor radius. For a homogeneous and dissipationless plasma, such a fluid dispersion relation agrees with the long-wavelength limit of the kinetic electron–cyclotron-drift instability dispersion relation that extends the results to arbitrary short wavelengths.
The general fluid dispersion relation covers different parametric regimes that depend on the relative ion-to-electron drift velocity and on the
presence of equilibrium inhomogeneities and/or dissipation. Depending on such conditions, its roots yield as follows: two-stream instabilities,
driven solely by the relative drift between species; drift-gradient instabilities, driven by the combination of the relative drift and equilibrium
gradients; and drift-dissipative instabilities, driven by the combination of the relative drift and friction. Instability thresholds are
determined and some distinctive unstable modes are described analytically.
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Ramos, J. J., Bello-Benítez, E., & Ahedo, E. (2021). Local analysis of electrostatic modes in a two-fluid E × B plasma. Physics of Plasmas, 28(5), 052115