Technique of Examination of the Current Sheath Stability in the Electrically Neutral Approximation

Abstract

The procedure of comprehensive analysis of instability of current sheathes in a wide range of frequencies and wave lengths in the electrically neutral approximation has been developed. This comprehensive analysis of instability is based on the consecutive solution of the kinetic equation with a self-consistent electromagnetic field (Vlasov's equation). For the first time the dispersion equation for the sharply inhomogeneous plasma of current sheath is introduced and the tensor of dielectric permeability is calculated.