Current Sheet in a Coaxial Plasma Gun
- 1 March 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 5 (3), 341-347
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1706620
Abstract
Magnetic‐ and electric‐probe measurements have been made on the thin current layer which is accelerated in a coaxial (Marshall) plasma gun. It is found that this layer does not act as a ``snowplow,'' but rather has the character of a strong shock wave.Keywords
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