Stirring Unmagnetized Plasma

Stirring unmagnetized plasma.

A new concept for spinning unmagnetized plasma is demonstrated experimentally. Plasma is confined by an axisymmetric multicusp magnetic field and biased cathodes are used to drive currents and impart a torque in the magnetized edge. Measurements show that flow viscously couples momentum from the magnetized edge (where the plasma viscosity is small) into the unmagnetized core (where the viscosit...

Taylor-Couette flow of unmagnetized plasma

Magnetic bucket for rotating unmagnetized plasma.

A new experiment is described which generates flow in unmagnetized plasma. Confinement is provided by a cage of permanent magnets, arranged to form an axisymmetric, high-order, multipolar magnetic field. This field configuration-sometimes called a "magnetic bucket"-has a vanishingly small field in the core of the experiment. Toroidal rotation is driven by J × B forces applied in the magnetized ...

Nonlinear tearing mode in inhomogeneous plasma: I. Unmagnetized islands

A theory of the nonlinear growth and propagation of magnetic islands in the semi-collisional regime is presented. The theory includes the effects of finite electron temperature gradients and uses a fluid model with cold ions in slab geometry to describe islands that are unmagnetized in the sense that their width is less than ρs, the ion Larmor radius calculated with the electron temperature. Th...

Exact evaluation of the quadratic longitudinal response function for an unmagnetized Maxwellian plasma

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