STUDY OF HEATING AND ACCELERATION OF PLASMA BY MAGNETIC FIELDS

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to investigate means of heating, accelerating, and channeling plasma jets by means of magnetic fields. The following investigations were performed: (1) Transient Electrodeless Discharge Experiments; (2) Steady-state Plasma Channelling Experiments; (3) The Punch Method of Compressing, Heating, and Confining a Plasma; (4) Relaxation Heating of a Plasma by Surface Interaction with a Magnetic Field; (5) Experiments on the Punch Method of Heating; (6) Propulsion Experiments with the Asymmetric Punch; (7) Magnetohydrodynamic Shear Heating; (8) The Two-Coil Induction Method of Measuring Conductivity; and (9) MHD Channel Flow of a Rotating F LUID. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0255738

Entities

People

  • Meredith C. Gourdine

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Channel Flow
  • Conductivity
  • Flow
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Physical Properties
  • Plasma Jets
  • Steady State

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.