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Stability of Luminous Discharges in Strong Fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92717

Abstract

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I show that a common thermal instability of conventional plasma discharges does not occur if plasma turbulence impedes current flow. Normally, thermal discharges drain current into a single hotter filament, because classical Coulomb resistance falls as a filament heats. Anomalous resistance reverses this, stabilizing the circuit. Only small levels of turbulence are needed.

Type
7. Magnetic Fields in Galactic Nuclei
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 140: Galactic and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields , 1990 , pp. 401 - 402
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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