Applicability of the hydrodynamic approximation to current-carrying plasma jets during their radial expansion

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 29, Issue 2 II, 2001, Pages 371-376

  Gidalevich, Evgeny ^b   Boxman, Raymond L ^a,b   Goldsmith, Samuel ^b  

^a IEEE

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamicity of plasma; Plasma Joule heating; Vacuum arc

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; HYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA HEATING;

KNUDSEN NUMBER (KN);

PLASMA JETS;

EID: 0035302472     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.922748     Document Type: Article

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