Journal of Plasma Physics

Table of Contents - 1991 - Volume 46, Issue 03  

Research Article

Amplification of nonlinear surface waves in an inhomogeneous transition layer

G. Brodina1 and O. M. Gradova2

a1 Department of Plasma Physics, Umeå University, S-901 87 Umeå, Sweden

a2 N. S. Kurnakov Institute, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Moscow,U.S.S.R.

Abstract

A plasma with a boundary transition layer of variable depth in the presence of a powerful electromagnetic field is considered. It is shown that a displacement of the boundary will grow, and will propagate as a nonlinear surface wave in the direction in which the depth of the transition layer decreases.

(Received May 28 1991)

(Revised August 05 1991)