Laboratory Studies of Effects Associated with Plasma Non-Uniformities (Non-Uniform Magnetic Fields and Non-Uniform Plasma Flows)

9876847 D 'Angelo地球物理学和天体物理学等离子体具有因点而异的特性。 本研究的目的是进行基本的实验室实验，研究等离子体非均匀性的影响。实验中进行的Q-机，并专注于如何静电冲击波发展时，等离子体密度脉冲发射到收敛的磁场线，以及如何离子声波动产生的磁场电流，如果一个非均匀的磁场对齐的散装等离子体流也存在。

9876847D'AngeloGeophysical and astrophysical plasmas have characteristics which vary from point to point. The objective of this research is to perform basic laboratory experiments which investigate some of the effects of plasma non-uniformities. The experiments are conducted in a Q-machine and focus on how electrostatic shock waves develop when plasma density pulses are launched into converging magnetic field lines and how ion-acoustic fluctuations are produced by magnetic field currents if a non-uniform magnetic field-aligned bulk plasma flow is also present.