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More on the expansion of a collisionless plasma into the wake of a body

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

K. H. Wright Jr ,
D. E. Parks ,
I. Katz ,
N. H. Stone  and
U. Samir
K. H. Wright Jr
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899
D. E. Parks
Affiliation:
S-CUBED, P. O. Box 1620, La Jolla, CA 92038
I. Katz
Affiliation:
S-CUBED, P. O. Box 1620, La Jolla, CA 92038
N. H. Stone
Affiliation:
Space Science Laboratory, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35812
U. Samir
Affiliation:
Space Physics Research Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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Abstract

Recent laboratory measurements of plasma expansion in a plasma wake experiment are compared with analytical expressions which approximate the plasma expansion model of Crow, Auer & Allen. Good quantitative agreement was found between the data and theory for the velocity and position of the ion expansion front. These results provide an important insight into the behaviour of the expansion early in its development.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , February 1986 , pp. 119 - 123
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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