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Propagation of electrostatic longitudinal waves in plasmas

In this paper a kinetic description based on the BGK model is developed to study the propagation of longitudinal waves in a collisional and isotropic plasma. Only electron motions are considered and the collisions between electrons and ions are represented by a relaxation term. We obtain a dispersion relation which depends on the collision frequency and on the Landau damping.


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