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dc.contributor.authorTang, Han
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-02T22:07:41Z
dc.date.available2020-10-02T22:07:41Z
dc.date.issued2020-05
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11122/11293
dc.descriptionThesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2020en_US
dc.description.abstractElectrostatic structures are observed in various of space environments including the auroral acceleration region, the solar wind region and the magnetosphere. The Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal (BGK) mode, one of the non-linear solutions to the Vlasov-Poisson system, is a potential explanation to these phenomena. Specifically, two dimensional (2D) BGK modes can be constructed through solving the Vlasov-Poisson-Ampère system with the assumption of a uniform ion background. This thesis discusses the existence and features of the 2D BGK modes with kinetic effects from both electrons and ions. Specifically, we construct electron or ion BGK modes with finite temperature ratio between ions and electrons. More general cases, the electron-ion 2D BGK mode with the participation of both non-Boltzmann electron and ion distributions are constructed and analyzed as well.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectspace plasmasen_US
dc.subjectionized gasesen_US
dc.subjectplasmaen_US
dc.subjectplasma astrophysicsen_US
dc.titleTwo-dimensional Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal modes in a magnetized plasma with kinetic effects from electrons and ionsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.degreemsen_US
dc.identifier.departmentDepartment of Physicsen_US
dc.contributor.chairChung-Sang, Ng
dc.contributor.committeeDelamere, Peter
dc.contributor.committeeNewman, David
refterms.dateFOA2020-10-02T22:07:41Z


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