Weakly Magnetized, Hall Dominated Plasma Couette Flow.


Journal

Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
25 Sep 2020
Historique:
received: 16 06 2020
revised: 14 08 2020
accepted: 18 08 2020
entrez: 9 10 2020
pubmed: 10 10 2020
medline: 10 10 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

A novel plasma equilibrium in the high-β, Hall regime that produces centrally peaked, high Mach number Couette flow is described. Flow is driven using a weak, uniform magnetic field and large, cross field currents. Large magnetic field amplification (factor 20) due to the Hall effect is observed when electrons are flowing radially inward, and near perfect field expulsion is observed when the flow is reversed. A dynamic equilibrium is reached between the amplified (removed) field and extended density gradients.

Identifiants

pubmed: 33034476
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.135001
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

135001

Auteurs

K Flanagan (K)

Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.

J Milhone (J)

Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.

J Egedal (J)

Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.

D Endrizzi (D)

Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.

J Olson (J)

Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.

E E Peterson (EE)

Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NW17, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

R Sassella (R)

Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.

C B Forest (CB)

Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.

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