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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
卷 85, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.066409
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- National Science Foundation-Department of Energy [DE-FG02-06ER54982]
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0903906] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Large-scale particle-in-cell calculations of the plasma wake interactions of two negatively charged grains smaller than the Debye length are carried out using the COPTIC code over a wide range of subsonic plasma flow velocities. In plasmas with the temperature ratio T-e/T-i = 100, it is found that a single grain's oscillatory wake disappears for flow Mach numbers M less than approximately 0.3, which is the parameter regime where Landau damping is expected to be strong. Neutral collisions suppress potential oscillations above M = 0.3, but not the trailing attractive potential peak caused by ion focusing. The transverse (grain-aligning) force on a downstream particle in the wake of another is obtained rigorously from the code in three-dimensional simulations. It shows general agreement with the force that would be deduced from the single-grain wake potential gradient. Except for relatively large grains in the nonlinear collisional regime, the grain-aligning force is very small for slow flow.
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