STATIONARY CURRENT SHEET MODEL FOR PLASMA ACCELERATION.

Abstract

Difficulties with the usual circuit-current sheet model of the coaxial plasma accelerator are shown to arise in the case of a stationary current sheet. A suggestion for resolving these difficulties is made based on considering energy and momentum changes of the plasma moving through the current sheet. The resulting equations are confirmed by a detailed analysis of the circuit elements made up of the moving plasma within the current sheet. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0615606

Entities

People

  • F. W. Mezger

Organizations

  • General Electric

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Equations
  • Fluids
  • Momentum
  • Physical Properties
  • Plasma Accelerators
  • Plasmas (Physics)
  • Stationary

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design