Comment on negative diffusion coefficients in quasi-linear theory

DAVID C. MONTGOMERY, S. E. Bodner · Journal of Plasma Physics · 1971

A recent paper on quasiinear theory by Klozenberg & Bernstein is commented upon. It is argued that improper treatment of the perturbed electron distribution for damped waves has led to a diffusion-type equation with a negative diffusion coefficient.

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