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Spontaneous generation of magnetic field in an imploding plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

S. K. H. Auluck
S. K. H. Auluck
Affiliation:
Neutron Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Bombay 400 085, India
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Abstract

Spontaneous generation of an axial magnetic field is predicted when the usually neglected centripetal acceleration term is properly taken into account in the two-fluid equations of motion for a cylindrically symmetric imploding plasma. An order-of-magnitude calculation is presented to illustrate spontaneous generation of a reversed-field configuration in a plasma imploded by a metallic liner.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , December 1984 , pp. 349 - 357
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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