INTERACTION OF PLASMA JETS,
Abstract
The modern, controlled thermonuclear reaction research works basically in the direction of: (1) studies of the turbulent heating of plasma and (2) fundamental investigation concerning hot plasma trapping within large-scale magnetic traps. The article proposes a third approach: injecting an already prepared plasma into the magnetic traps. This would result in a fast filling of the trap and possibilities for the cleaning and additional heating of the plasma. The problem splits into three parts: (a) how to prepare a plasma of required characteristics; (b) how to inject it into the trap; and (c) how to keep it within the trap. One of the possible methods for plasma braking is the utilization of a collective interaction of colliding plasma jets under specified conditions of temperature and velocity relationships of the plasma components. Another method, the so-called polarization approach for colliding jet braking, does not impose auxiliary conditions on the plasma, and experiments proved this method also very effective, except that the resulting plasma was highly erratic. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 22, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0675573
Entities
People
- V. T. Tolok
Organizations
- National Air and Space Intelligence Center