title: Drift wave stabilized by an additional streaming ion or plasma population.
abstract: It is shown that the universally unstable kinetic drift wave in an electron-ion plasma can very effectively be suppressed by adding an extra flowing ion (or plasma) population. The effect of the flow of the added ions is essential, their response is of the type (vph-vf0)exp[-(vph-vf0)2], where vf0 is the flow speed and vph is the phase speed parallel to the magnetic field vector. The damping is strong and it is mainly due to this ion exponential term, and this remains so for vf0<vph.
authors: Department of Physics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
authors: M F
authors: MF
authors: Bashir
authors: Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, 38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.|Departamento de Astrofisica, Universidad de La Laguna, 38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Vranjes