Landau damping [SEP] named after
Landau damping
In physics, Landau damping, named after its discoverer, the eminent Soviet physicist Lev Davidovich Landau (1908–68), is the effect of damping (exponential decrease as a function of time) of longitudinal space charge waves in plasma or a similar environment. This phenomenon prevents an instability from developing, and creates a region of stability in the parameter space. It was later argued by Donald Lynden-Bell that a similar phenomenon was occurring in galactic dynamics, where the gas of electrons interacting by electrostatic forces is replaced
- Internal wave
- Inverse scattering transform
- Ion acoustic wave
- Irradiance
K.
- Kelvin wave
- Kinematic wave
- Knife-edge effect
- Kondratiev wave
L.
- Lamb waves
- Landau damping
- Lee wave
- Linear elasticity
- Linear polarization
- List of waves named after people
- Long wavelength limit
- Longitudinal mode
- Longitudinal wave
- Longwave
- Love wave
M.
- Mach wave
- Mach–Zehnder interferometer