Saturation of the ion drift instability in collisional complex plasmas by ion trapping.

Yaroshenko, Victoria V · Phys Rev E · 2021

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Competition between ion trapping and collisional detrapping is considered to be an important issue in the stabilization of the ion flow instability. The saturation amplitudes in terms of the particle density are derived and compared to the experimental data.