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On the flute instability in a Q-machine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Enos D'Ambrogio  and
Aldo Nocentini
Aldo Nocentini
Affiliation:
Istituto di Meccanica dell'Università degli Studi, Trieste, Italy
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Abstract

The influence of the cathodes of a double-ended Q-machine on a flute instability of the Rayleigh–Taylor type is investigated for a low β plasma column. It is shown that flute modes are strongly affected by the end plate conditions and by the machine length. The occurrence of ion-rich sheaths is a necessary condition for the validity of the dispersion relation of the unbounded case. The range of values of the column length for the existence of a given flute mode is determined.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , April 1972 , pp. 247 - 253
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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