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Liu, C. S.

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NASA NTRS1985

The gravity field of topography buried by sediments

The gravity field over topography in the northern Indian Ocean that was completely buried by sediments of the Bengal Fan was investigated to understand the effect of sedimentation on the continental gravity field. An isopach map made from the seismic reflection and refraction in the Bay of Bengal shows two prominent N-S trending features in the basement topography. The northernmost portion of the Ninetyeast Ridge is totally buried by sediments north of 10 deg N. The other buried ridge trends roughly N-S for 1400 km at 85 deg E to the latitude of Sri Lanka and then curves toward the west. It has basement relief up to 6 km. Two free air gravity anomaly profiles across the region show a strong gravity low over the 85 deg E ridge, while the Ninetyeast Ridge shows a gravity high.

Sandwell, D. T.↗
NASA NTRS1980

Guiding center plasma with gravitational or gradient drifts

It is noted that since its introduction in 1971, the subject of the statistical dynamics of the electrostatic guiding center plasma model has received considerable theoretical attention. The paper presents the theory and a simulation for the two-dimensional electrostatic guiding center plasma in a uniform gravitational field. Finally, it is shown that the gravitational field leads to large electrostatic energies at long wavelengths and associated vortex motion in the plasma.

Joyce, G.↗
NASA NTRS1979

Nonlinear development of an electromagnetic filamentation instability

A simplified model of an electromagnetic filamentation instability that arises when two counterstreaming electron beams pass through a uniform ion background is treated by statistical mechanical techniques borrowed from fluid turbulence theory. Accumulation of magnetic energy at long wavelengths is predicted, as observed in the numerical simulations of Lee and Lampe.

Montgomery, D.↗