ON WAVE PROPAGATION IN A LINEARIZED, VERTICALLYnINHOMOGENEOUS PARTIALLY IONIZED GAS: FORMULATION AND MATHEMATICAL METHODOLOGY

摘要

The propagation of waves in both fully and partially ionized gases, both with and without magnetic fields, has been treated by a number of workers;e, g. Tanenbaum and Minters in 1962 obtained the dispersion relations for a linearized and spatially uniform gas of electrons, positive ions and neutrals. The present report discusses the basic formulation and mathematical treatment of wave propagation in a linearized electron-ion-neutral gas, with static magnetic field, in which the ambient gas parameters have an arbitrary variation with the vertical coordinate and are uniform in the horizontal direction.