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| Titel |
Numerical simulations of a three-wave coupling occurring in the ionospheric plasma |
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H. Usui, H. Matsumoto, R. Gendrin |
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Englisch
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1023-5809
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In: Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics ; 9, no. 1 ; Nr. 9, no. 1, S.1-10 |
| Datensatznummer |
250006594
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/npg-9-1-2002.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| We studied a
three-wave coupling process occurring in an active experiment of microwave
power transmission (MPT) in the ionospheric plasma by performing
one-dimensional electromagnetic PIC (Particle-In-Cell) simulations. In
order to examine the spatial variation of the coupling process, we
continuously emitted intense electromagnetic waves from an antenna located
at a simulation boundary. In the three-wave coupling, a low-frequency
electrostatic wave is excited as the result of a nonlinear interaction
between the forward propagating pump wave and backscattered wave. In the
simulations, low-frequency electrostatic bursts are discontinuously
observed in space. The discontinuity of the electrostatic bursts is
accounted for by the local electron heating due to the bursts and the
associated modification of the wave dispersion relation. In a case where
the pump wave propagates along the geomagnetic field Bext ,
several bursts of Langmuir waves are observed. Since the first burst
consumes a part of the pump wave energy, the pump wave is weakened and
cannot trigger the three-wave coupling beyond the region where the burst
occurs. Since the dispersion relation of the Langmuir wave is variable,
due to the local electron heating by the burst, the coupling condition
eventually becomes unsatisfied and the first interaction becomes weak.
Another burst of Langmuir waves is observed at a different region beyond
the location of the first burst. In the case of perpendicular propagation,
the upper hybrid wave, one of the mode branches of the electron cyclotron
harmonic waves, is excited. Since the dispersion relation of the upper
hybrid wave is less sensitive to the electron temperature, the coupling
condition is not easily violated by the temperature increase. As a result,
the three-wave coupling periodically takes place in time and eventually,
the transmission ratio of the microwaves becomes approximately 20%, while
almost no attenuation of the pump waves is observed after the first
electrostatic burst in the parallel case. We also examined the dependency
of the temporal growth rate for the electrostatic waves on the amplitude
of the pump wave. |
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