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Instability of tangential discontinuities in pinching plasmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2001

S. P. TSYBENKO
S. P. TSYBENKO
Affiliation:
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117924, Russian Federation
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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.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , July 1999 , pp. 117 - 123
Copyright
1999 Cambridge University Press

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