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Plasma physics

necessary and sufficient condition for electrostatic instability of a uniform plasma with an arbitrary velocity distribution, tied to minima in the distribution.

In plasma physics, Penrose criterion refers to necessary and sufficient condition for electrostatic instability of a uniform plasma with an arbitrary velocity distribution, tied to minima in the distribution. This meaning comes from Penrose (1960) in The Physics of Fluids.[1]

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References

Penrose, O. (1960). Electrostatic Instabilities of a Uniform Non-Maxwellian Plasma. The Physics of Fluids, 3(2), 258-265. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1706024

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