Slab Model Analysis of Magnetic and Collisional Viscosity Effects on the First Generation of Nuclear Structure

Abstract

A simple model is postulated for the freezing scale in nuclear plumes, whose success depends strongly on the high M ratios of nuclear plumes, and on the existence of some mechanism which causes the slab growth rate gamma(k) to be sharply peaked when regarded as a function wavenumber k. Although the model derivation is quite different from another mode, the only significant difference in implementation is the use of growth rates valid for all gradient scale lengths, rather than for just the asymptotic long wavelength limit. This model is only two dimensional, and hence does not address three dimensional effects, which may be important. Keywords: Nuclear plumes, Freezing scale, Plasma structure.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 27, 1989
Accession Number
ADA207880

Entities

People

  • Joseph D. Huba
  • P. Satyanarayana
  • Steven T.P. Zalesak

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Corporations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Engineering
  • Freezing
  • Frequency
  • Geometry
  • Long Wavelengths
  • Military Research
  • Nuclear Structure
  • Physics
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics