Radial Current and Rotation Profile Tailoring in Highly Ionized Linear Plasma Devices
Plasma Physics
2019-08-30 v1
Abstract
In a rotating magnetized plasma cylinder with shear, cross-field current can arise from inertial mechanisms and from the cross-field viscosity. Considering these mechanisms, it is possible to calculate the irreducible radial current draw in a cylindrical geometry as a function of the rotation frequency. The resulting expressions raise novel possibilities for tailoring the electric field profile by controlling the density and temperature profiles of a plasma.
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@article{arxiv.1906.08391,
title = {Radial Current and Rotation Profile Tailoring in Highly Ionized Linear Plasma Devices},
author = {E. J. Kolmes and I. E. Ochs and M. E. Mlodik and J. -M. Rax and R. Gueroult and N. J. Fisch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.08391},
year = {2019}
}
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12 pages, 3 figures