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Instability of tangential discontinuities in pinching plasmas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 April 2001
Abstract
A new mechanism for the formation of pinching plasma instability related to a tangential discontinuity is discussed. With this in mind we use a simple model of the Davydov–Zakharov class. It appears that there is a strong dependence of the instability increment on current density, resulting from the corresponding dispersion relation. Modulation of a current pulse is shown to be a possible way of stabilizing powerful discharges.
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- 1999 Cambridge University Press
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