The formation of stationary striations in an argon plasma due to the development of an instability is studied using the equations for the competing plasma population species. The nonlinear dynamic stability of the system is analyzed using a two-time perturbation procedure. The unstable uniform steady state bifurcates to a new state with a sinusoidal density variation in space leading to the formation of balls of glowing plasma. This is analogous to phenomena of structure formation that appear in chemical reactions and biological processes.

No abstract

It is the purpose of this article to present the merits of adopting the terminology zeroth ionization potential to describe the energy change that occurs when a gaseous anion loses an electron.

No abstract

No abstract