Numerical investigation of transients in the SSPX Spheromak

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Sovinec, C R ^a   Cohen, B I ^b   Cone, G A ^a   Hooper, E B ^b   McLean, H S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOTIC SCATTERING; HYDROGEN PLASMAS; MAGNETIC TOPOLOGY; SPHEROMAKS; TRANSIENT EFFECTS;

ANISOTROPY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; KINETIC ENERGY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMA FLOW; THERMAL EFFECTS;

PLASMA SIMULATION;

EID: 18044373635     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.035003     Document Type: Article

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