It is shown that partial incoherence, in the form of stochastic phase noise, of a Langmuir wave in an unmagnetized plasma gives rise to a Landau-type damping. Starting from the Zakharov equations, which describe the nonlinear interaction between Langmuir and ion-acoustic waves, a kinetic equation is derived for the plasmons by introducing the Wigner-Moyal transform of the complex Langmuir wave ...

1. Under the conditions used in our investigation, tripalmitin layers of the Langmuir Blodgett (LB) type undergo a spontaneous transition, leading from a liquid crystalline (LB) state to a microcrystalline (CR) state. 2. This transition is accompanied by a shift of the methylene bending band from 1469 to 1473 cm-1 and a shift of the ester group motion from about 1169 to 1182 cm1 . In both cases...

INTRODUCTION: The Langmuir probe is a diagnostic device used to determine several basic properties of a plasma, such as temperature and density. A plasma is a state of matter which contains enough free (not bound to an atom) charged particles (electrons and ions) so that its dynamical behavior is dominated by electromagnetic forces. The subject of plasma physics is concerned mainly with ionized...

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an organophilic clay-based adsorbent was prepared by incorporating a cationic surfactant,hexadecyltrimethylammonium (hdtma) at different levels of cec in tunisian smectite-illite clay. thepresence of the hdtma surfactant enhanced the adsorption ability of the clays toward plyphenolic compounds from aqueous systems. adsorption experiments were carried out using a batch equilibration technique to...

Langmuir wave turbulence generated by a beamplasma interaction has been studied since the early days of plasma physics research. Despite a long history of investigation on this subject, among the outstanding issues is the generation of harmonic Langmuir waves observed in both laboratory and computer-simulated experiments. However, the phenomenon has not been adequately explained in terms of the...

A model of kinetic effects in Langmuir wave dynamics is presented using a nonlinear distribution function that includes particle separatrix crossing and self-consistent electrostatic evolution. This model is based on the adiabatic motion of electrons in the wave to describe Bernstein–Greene– Kruskal-like Langmuir waves over a wide range of temperatures 0.1 k D 0.4 . The asymptotic distribution ...