Wave-driven countercurrent plasma centrifuge

Plasma Sources Science and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Fetterman, Abraham J ^a   Fisch, Nathaniel J ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNELING EFFECT; COUNTER CURRENT; COUNTER-CURRENT FLOW; IONIZED PLASMAS; RADIOFREQUENCY WAVES; WAVE ENERGY;

CENTRIFUGATION; CENTRIFUGES; FLOW PATTERNS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

ROTATION;

EID: 70350627276     PISSN: 09630252     EISSN: 13616595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-0252/18/4/045003     Document Type: Article

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