Periodic Pulling and Turbulence in a Bounded Plasma
- 17 February 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 22 (7), 275-278
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.22.275
Abstract
Experimental results obtained with a machine demonstrate the effect of a nonlinear mechanism called periodic pulling that has been proposed to explain the transition to turbulence in a bounded plasma characterized by weakly unstable modes. The effect is characteristic of any distributed-parameter system that can be described by the van der Pol equation and is related to phenomena observed in solid-state oscillators and the gas laser.
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