Plasma dynamics in pulsed strong magnetic fields

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 11, Issue 5 PART 2, 2004, Pages 2411-2418

  Doron, R ^a   Arad, R ^a,f   Tsigutkin, K ^a   Osin, D ^a   Weingarten, A ^a   Starobinets, A ^a   Bernshtam, V A ^a   Stambulchik, E ^a   Ralchenko, Yu V ^a,g   Maron, Y ^a   Fruchtman, A ^b   Fisher, A ^c   Huba, J D ^d   Roth, M ^e  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f SOREQ NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Israel)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMA OPENING SWITCHES (POS); PLASMA REFLECTION; PLASMAS DYNAMICS; PROPAGATION VELOCITY;

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; HALL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PLASMAS; REFLECTION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 2942518000     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1651491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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