Abstract
AbstractIn a collisionless quiet argon plasma, transient density cavities are formed by applying a large amplitude rf pulse to a cylindrical wire antenna. After the end of the pulse, the density cavity breaks up into cylindrical rarefaction waves. Due to the large depression of up to 50%, wave propagation is nonlinear. Numerical models based on a fluid‐description and a generalized Korteweg‐deVries‐equation are presented for the propagation and superposition of the cylindrical waves. The numerical findings are compared critically with the experiments.
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