Currents and Fields in an Asymmetrically Driven Coaxial Line

Abstract

Cylindrical plasma pinch experiments are conveniently done in coaxial geometry. However, when a coaxial line is driven by a non-axisymmetric source of current, there result asymmetries in the magnetic field in the coaxial line which in turn will drive Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities. In this paper we calculate the field asymmetry.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA638870

Entities

People

  • B. R. Suydam

Organizations

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Asymmetry
  • Bessel Functions
  • Boundaries
  • Current Density
  • Geometry
  • Information Operations
  • Instability
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Mathematics
  • Pulsed Power
  • Rayleigh Taylor Instability
  • Short Circuits
  • Symmetry
  • Thickness
  • Z-Pinches

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics