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JOURNAL OF PLASMA PHYSICS VOLUME 57 1997 =) CAMBRIDGE (:)) UNIVERSITY PRESS EDITORS PROFESSOR R A CAIRNS, School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY 16 9SS, Scotland, [email protected] PROFESSOR GEORGE H MILEY, Fusion Studies Laboratory, University of Illinois, 103 S Goodwin Avenue, Urbana IL 61081-2984, USA, [email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITORS Dr ROBERT L BINGHAM, Space Science Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, England, [email protected] Dr MARCO BRAMBILLA, Mazx-Planck-Institute fiir Plasmaphysik, Postfach 1555, D-85740 Garching, Germany, [email protected] PROFESSOR ERYK INFELD, Soltan Institute, Hoza 69, PL-00681 Warsaw, Poland, [email protected] PROFESSOR P K KAW, /nstitute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar 382 424, Gujarat, India, Kaw@ plasma.ernet.in PROFESSOR D B MELROSE, Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia, melrose a physies.su.oz.au PROFESSOR EDWARD C MORSE, Nuclear Engineering Department, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720, USA, [email protected] Dr RICHARD A NEBEL, 7-15, Los Alamos National Laboratory. 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POSTMASTER: send address changes in USA, Canada and Mextoi Jocurnoal of Plasma Physics, Cambridge University Press, 110 Midland Avenue, Port Chester. New York. NY 10573-4930 Information on Journalo f Plasma Physics and all other Cambridge journals can be accessed via http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/ and in North America via http://www.cup.org © Cambridge University Press 1997 CONTENTS TO VOLUME 57 Part 1 JANUARY 1997 The Earth’s plasma sheet as a laboratory for flow turbulence in high-£ MHD JOSEPH E. Borovsky, RICHARD C. ELpHic, HERBERT O. FUNSTEN and MICHFE. LTHLOMESE N Transition to turbulent electric current sheet reconnection RUSBS. EDALHLBLUR G Plasma sheath evolution from perturbed electrodes in a negative-ion plasma YASSER EL-ZEIN, SEUNGJUN Y1, Karu E. LONNGREN, IGOR ALEXEFF, TERRENCE E. SHERaInd DH.A HSNUA N Remarks on statistical mechanics of discrete and continuous media with application to the magnetohydrodynamic dynamo LEAF TURNER Magnetohydrodynamic equations under anisotropic conditions R. Kinney and J.C. MCWILLIAMS Reduced MHD in nearly potential magnetic fields H. R. STRAUSS On general transformations and variational principles for — the magnetohydrodynamics of ideal fluids. Part IIL. Stability criteria for axisymmetric flows V. A. VLApiHm. iK.r Moorrayrt, an d K. I. [Lin Thermal conduction in strongly coupled plasmas: especially liquid alkali metals N. H. Maarnd cM. Pu. To st Anisotropy in Hall MHD turbulence due to a mean magnetic field S. GHOSH and M. L. GOLDSTEIN K—e compressible 3D neutral fluid turbulence modelling of the effect of toroidal cavities on flame-front propagation in the gas-blanket regime for tokamak divertors GEORGE VAHALA, LINDA VAHALA, JOSEPH MORRISON, SERGE! KRASHENaIndN DNIEITERK SOIGVMA R Entropy. fluctuation and transport in lattice gas systems with generalized semi-detailed balance HuponGc CHEN Inhiofb turibultenti caoscande by sweep SHIYI CHEN and RoBH.E KRRAICTHNA N IV Contents Energy spectrum in the dissipation range of fluid turbulence D. O. MaRTINEz, S. CHEN, G. D. DooLeEn, R. H. KRAaIcHnay, L.-P. WanG and Y. ZHov Experimental evidence of rapid relaxation to large-scale structures in turbulent fluids: selective decay and maximal entropy MicHaAEL R. Brown Viscous drag and the differential rotation of the Earth's core Davip L. Book and J. A. VALDIVIA ARY/MarcH 1997 Kinetic Alfvén solitons in a low-beta plasma B.C. Kauita and R. P. BHatTa Effect ofa stochastic electron background on low-m tearing modes P.V. Siva Rama Prasap and D. P. TEWAR!I Quasiparticle invariants and energy transfer between particles and fields Petro P. SOSENKO Derivation of an equation for three-wave interactions based on the Klimontovich—Dupree equation V. 1. EROFEE\ Nonlinear propagation of lower-hybrid waves in a dusty plasma QO. P. San Nonlinear effects in Alfvén resonance I. S. DMITRIENKO Stability analysis of the ideal m =n = 1 kink mode in toroidal geometry by direct expansion of the hydromagnetic equations C. WAHLBERG and A. BONDESON Evolution of magnetic moment in the interaction of waves. with kinetically described plasmas CHANDRA Das Quasi-optical description of reflection focusing and plasma cut-offs of electron cyclotron Gaussian beams S. Nowak and A. OREFICE Plasma stochasticity and modulational interactions of waves associated with lower hybrid resonance S. I. POPEL A nonlinear theory of charged-particle stopping in non-ideal plasmas \ l Ss. SAYASOV Generation of Bernstein modes in space and laboratory plasmas by inject ion of an electron beam GEORGY! V. Lizunoy Contents Arbitrary potential drops between collector and emitter in pure electron diodes HEIDRUN KOLINSKY and HANS SCHAMEL New classes of three-dimensional ideal-MHD equilibria R. KarseR and A. SALAT Power thresholds of the L-H transition described by a global bifurcation of tokamak equilibrium KE. MINARDI Bohm sheath criteria and double layers in multispecies plasmas FRANK VERHEEST and MANFRED A. HELLBERG Covariant form of Trubnikov’s response tensor for a_ relativistic magnetized thermal plasma D. B. MELROSE Book REVIEW Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, by E. Battaner Part 3 APRIL 1997 Solitary waves and corresponding double layers in relativistic plasmas with multitemperature electrons G. C. Das and K. M. SEN On the possible role of anomalous resistivity in POS A. KINGSEP and A. MUNIER Evolution of a preformed electron beam propagating through a conducting cylinder Han S. UHM Two-stream cyclotron radiative instabilities due to the marginally mirror trapped fraction of fusion alphas in tokamaks V. ARUNASALAM Diamagnetic effects during the early stages of star formation H. U. Rauman,D. BHaTTAcHARYA, S. Raspoor and P. AMENDT Excitation of upper-hybrid waves by a rotating relativistic electron beam in a plasma-filled large-orbit gyrotron S.C. SHARMA Role of higher spatial harmonics in the launched LH spectrum in the ponderomotive effects at the plasma edge J. PREINHAELTER, L. VAHALA and G. VAHALA A novel construction of the response tensors for a collisionless unmag netized plasma D. J. PERCIVAL Vi Contents A modal view of oscillations in inhomogeneous compressible MHD P.S. CaLtiy and 8. T. MappISsoN Spectral dependence, efficiency and localofi nonz-inadutctiive ocurnren t drive via helicity injection by global Alfvén waves in tokamak plasmas K. KOMOS8S. CHUPEVRMAIN aLnd IC. ,BRU MA Wave-wave interactions in two-fluid cosmic-ray hydrodynamics G. M. Wess, M. Brio, G. P. Zank and T. Story Cosmicsh-ocksr wiath iynjec-tionm ino thed hyidrodfynaimice appdroa ch Part 1. Injection linear in the thermal pressure CHuuNG-Mine Ko, Kat-WC1HAnN aGn d G. M. WEBB Book REVIEW Force Free Magnetic Fields, Solitons, Topology and Applications, by G. E. Marsh Part 4 May/JuNeE 1997 Effect of beam density on nonlinear amplification of inverse bremsstelrectarohn alccuelenragtio n A.P.C Par.s, M. Virginia ALVEs, R. M. O. GALVAo, A. SERBETO and M.S. HUSSEIN Relativistic kinetic theory of waves in isotropic plasmas REINHARD SCHLIaCnd KMEEINHIARSD KENELRLE R Solutions of the hydromagnetic equation with magnetic null points: uniform-resistivciatsye F. JaMITzanKdY M . SCHOLER Fundampleasmna tradaialtio n generatebdy a travelling Langmuir wave hybrid stimulated modulational instability ABRAHAM C.-L. CHIAN and JoSE R. ABALDE Variational principle for crossed-fdieveilcdes D. J. Kaup and Gary E. THOMAS Particle acceleration by large amplitude waves revisited R. PakGT. Ceorsro a,nd .F. B. Rizzato The influence of trapping effects on neutron productioin n NBI-heated tokamak plasmas B. Wouue, Z. JAuancd HL.- G. ERIKSSON Resistive effects on helicity wave current drive venerated by Alfvén waves in tokamak plasmas C. BrumMaA, 8S.C UPERMAN and K. KOMOSHVILI Exwaavec soltutio ns for a cylindrically bounded magnetized plasma G. MurtTaza and M. Y. Yt C'ontents Effects of electron-beam denisity on large-amplitude ion-acoustic waves in a plasma with trapped electrons Y.N. NEJon The effects of propagation angle of waves and pitch angle of electrons on maser and beam—plasma instabilities GuanGc-Li Huane, DrE-Yu Wane and Dinc-Y1 Mao Normal and anomalous explosion mechanisms for nonlinear instabilities in three-wave coupling Dine-Yr Li, Dinc-Y1 Mao and DE-Yu WanG Corrigenda AUTHOR INDEX TO VOLUME 57