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FIZIKA A 19 (2010) 1 , 1-10
 
KINETIC BUNEMAN INSTABILITY IN DUSTY PLASMA OF DIFFERENT TEMPERATURE REGIMES
SH. M. KHALILa and H. AL-YOUSEF
Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Princess Nora Bent Abdurrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
aOn leave from Plasma Physics & Nuclear Fusion Department, N.R.C., Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo, Egypt
E-mail addresses: skhalil@kacst.edu.sa and mohamed_khalil@post.com
Received 21 December 2008; Revised manuscript received 13 March 2010
Accepted 17 March 2010 Online 6 April 2010
Recent theoretical work on the excitation of Buneman's instability in
inhomogeneous anisotropic dusty plasmas is presented. Plasmas with different
temperature regime are considered. The dispersion relation is derived and solved
for a 1-D Buneman instability excited in such plasmas. Electron to ion
temperature ratio, degree of plasma inhomogeneity and dust grains thermal
velocity are found to play a crucial role in the growth and damping of Buneman
instability.
PACS numbers: 52.35.Qz, 52.27.Lw
UDC 533.95
Keywords: Buneman's instability, anisotropic plasma, dusty plasma
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