Analytic computation of self-inductance changes in a plasma focus
Abstract
A simple, although only approximate, model for the motion and shape of the current sheath is presented, from which the variable self-inductance can be computed. The circuit equation can be solved self-consistently with the sheath motion. Results are given by analytic formulae. The method is exemplified numerically for a low energy plasma focus.
- Publication:
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Pulsed High Beta Plasmas
- Pub Date:
- 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976phbp.proc..461G
- Keywords:
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- Electric Current;
- Equations Of Motion;
- Inductance;
- Magnetic Field Configurations;
- Plasma Control;
- Plasma Pinch;
- Focusing;
- Ion Motion;
- Magnetic Induction;
- Mathematical Models;
- Plasma Cylinders;
- Plasma Physics