Expansion of a two-component plasmoid in a vacuum
Abstract
Numerical integration of the equations of two-fluid hydrodynamics is used to solve the problem of the one-dimensional expansion in a vacuum of a quasineutral plasmoid, consisting of a mixture of ions of different charges and masses. A space-time picture of the change in me hydrodynamic quantities and the electric field is obtained, and the effect of the ion mass and charge is investigated.
- Publication:
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Soviet Physics Journal
- Pub Date:
- February 1978
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00898482
- Bibcode:
- 1978SvPhJ..21..186A