From: smithzb@email.uah.edu (Zine B. Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
Subject: Re: Landau damping
Date: 20 Jan 1998 20:50:38 GMT
Organization: The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Message-ID: <6a32mu$r0j$1@info.uah.edu>
References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980119133047.4849C-100000@classic14>


Lutz Maibaum (maibaum@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de) wrote:

: I am looking for a derivation of the Landau damping formula, starting from
: the Vlasov equation. Does anyone know a source in which this is given in a
: correct but comprehensive way ?

: Lutz Maibaum
: University of Duesseldorf, Germany

Try _Plasma Physics and Controled Fusion_ by Chen. He gives a very good
discussion on Landau damping. I'm not sure if he starts from the Vlasov
eq or not, but somewhere close though.
(He is the only one that I have found that makes any since on Landau
damping)


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