Magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the inverse-pinch plasma discharge

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1589-1599

  Esaulov, A ^a   Bauer, B S ^a   Lindemuth, I R ^a,b   Makhin, V ^a   Presura, R ^a   Ryutov, D D ^a   Sheehey, P T ^a,c   Siemon, R E ^a   Sotnikov, V I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; INVERSE-PINCH PLASMA DISCHARGE; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATION; SHOCK ACCELERATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLOTRONS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; INDUCTANCE; KINETIC ENERGY; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TURBULENCE;

PLASMA CONFINEMENT;

EID: 2542436097     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1650354     Document Type: Article

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