Plasma Rotation during Implosion in aPinch
- 3 October 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 39 (14), 884-888
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.39.884
Abstract
A differential rotation of a collisionless -pinch column during implosion has been observed and explained by a model in which the driving mechanism is the off-diagonal element of the pressure tensor. Rotational motion was detected by directional probes and spectroscopic techniques. Experimental data were modeled by a one-dimensional hybrid code which included ionization and charge exchange of protons with neutral H atoms.
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