THE STABILITY OF PLASMAS IN THE PRESENCE OF CONDUCTING WALLS,
Abstract
The report analyzes two situations where conducting surfaces are present. In the first, a plasma, bounded between two perfectly conducting walls, is supported against gravity by a magnetic field. The gravitational field is simply to simulate the centrifugal force on particles moving on curved lines of force or the field gradient forces, without complicating the geometry. The second situation is a wedge-shaped section of a cylindrical column of plasma, confined between perfectly conducting walls. It is assumed that there is no magnetic field inside the plasma and that there is an azimuthal field outside the plasma. Both situations turned out to have unstable solutions, although the instabilities are not so'bad' as without conductors in the sense that some of the unstable modes are eliminated.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 09, 1960
- Accession Number
- AD0607617
Entities
People
- Carl Iddings
Organizations
- TRW Inc.