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This paper gives a tutorial for the electrostatic instabilities induced by electron and/or ion beams in space plasmas. After a brief review of the linear theory of the electron/ion beam instabilities, we describe various types of nonlinear processes reproduced by electrostatic particle simulations. We first study the basic nonlinear processes in a uniform system with periodic boundaries, and then we study the beam plasma interactions in a nonuniform system with open boundaries. Importance of ion dynamics in the nonlinear evolution of the electron beam instabilities are discussed based on the simulations with different distributions of ions.
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Omura, Y., Umeda, T., Matsumoto, H. (2003). Simulation of Electron Beam Instabilities and Nonlinear Potential Structures. In: Büchner, J., Scholer, M., Dum, C.T. (eds) Space Plasma Simulation. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 615. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36530-3_4
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