Ionization and ablation phenomena in an ablative plasma accelerator

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 5420-5428

  Keidar, M ^a   Boyd, I D ^a   Beilis, I I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; KNUDSEN LAYER EDGE; NONEQUILIBRIUM IONIZATION REGION (NEIR); SURFACE ABLATION;

CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRONS; IONIZATION; LASER ABLATION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PLASMA DENSITY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; VELOCITY;

PLASMA ACCELERATORS;

EID: 9944253865     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1805726     Document Type: Article

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