Shock discontinuity in high-current vacuum arcs

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 29, Issue 5 I, 2001, Pages 700-703

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

^a IEEE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamicity of plasma; Shock waves; Vacuum arc

Indexed keywords

CATHODE PLASMA JETS; PLASMA JET INTERACTION;

ANODES; CATHODES; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; PLASMA SHOCK WAVES;

PLASMA JETS;

EID: 0035485734     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.964457     Document Type: Article

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