[{"key":"dc.contributor.author","value":"Romanin, Benjamin Stephen Joseph","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.accessioned","value":"2010-05-16T04:58:52Z","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.available","value":"2010-05-16T04:58:52Z","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.issued","value":"1984","language":null},{"key":"dc.identifier.uri","value":"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2429\/24759","language":null},{"key":"dc.description.abstract","value":"In this thesis we show that stable cnoidal waves can be generated from a linearly unstable plasma system. We look at a two-stream electromagnetic instability using plasma fluid theory. A reductive perturbation method is used to solve the equations to various order in a smallness parameter, \u03b5. To O(\u03b5\u00b2) , the set of equations can be reduced to a canonical nonlinear equation: the Korteweg-deVries equation. This equation has stable cnoidal solutions.","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.language.iso","value":"eng","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.publisher","value":"University of British Columbia","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.rights","value":"For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/terms_of_use.","language":null},{"key":"dc.title","value":"Cnoidal waves generated from a plasma instability","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.type","value":"Text","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.name","value":"Master of Science - MSc","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.discipline","value":"Geophysics","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.grantor","value":"University of British Columbia","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.type.text","value":"Thesis\/Dissertation","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.description.affiliation","value":"Science, Faculty of","language":null},{"key":"dc.description.affiliation","value":"Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of","language":null},{"key":"dc.degree.campus","value":"UBCV","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.description.scholarlevel","value":"Graduate","language":"en"}]