Stability of a Current-Carrying Plasma
- 1 January 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 4 (8), 1037
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1706435
Abstract
The critical current is obtained for the onset of ion wave instability in the experimentally interesting case of a current‐carrying plasma with an electron distribution function given by the conductivity theory of Spitzer and Härm. The results are presented in a form suitable for comparison with experiment.Keywords
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