Experiments With Radiatively Cooled Supersonic Plasma Jets Generated in Conical Wire Array Z-Pinches

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. V. Lebedev
Keyword(s):  
Wire Array ◽  
Plasma Jets ◽  
Supersonic Plasma

Supersonic Plasma Jets of Different Gases in Low-Pressure Environment

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (10) ◽  
pp. 2450-2451
Author(s):  
Wenxia Pan ◽  
Xian Meng ◽  
Heji Huang ◽  
Chengkang Wu
Keyword(s):  
Low Pressure ◽  
Plasma Jets ◽  
Supersonic Plasma ◽  
Different Gases

Heat exchange between subsonic and supersonic plasma jets and a plane surface

1981 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 573-576
Author(s):  
G. A. Frolov ◽  
V. S. Dvernyakov ◽  
V. V. Pasichnyi ◽  
F. I. Zakharov
Keyword(s):  
Heat Exchange ◽  
Plane Surface ◽  
Plasma Jets ◽  
Supersonic Plasma

scholarly journals Laboratory plasma physics experiments using merging supersonic plasma jets

2014 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. C. Hsu ◽  
A. L. Moser ◽  
E. C. Merritt ◽  
C. S. Adams ◽  
J. P. Dunn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Physics ◽  
National Laboratory ◽  
Mean Free Path ◽  
Plasma Jets ◽  
Pulsed Power ◽  
Laboratory Plasma ◽  
Los Alamos National Laboratory ◽  
Supersonic Plasma ◽  
Physics Experiment ◽  
Mean Charge

We describe a laboratory plasma physics experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory that uses two merging supersonic plasma jets formed and launched by pulsed-power-driven railguns. The jets can be formed using any atomic species or mixture available in a compressed-gas bottle and have the following nominal initial parameters at the railgun nozzle exit: ne ≈ ni ~ 1016 cm−3, Te ≈ Ti ≈ 1.4 eV, Vjet ≈ 30–100 km/s, mean charge $\bar{Z}$ ≈ 1, sonic Mach number Ms ≡ Vjet/Cs > 10, jet diameter = 5 cm, and jet length ≈20 cm. Experiments to date have focused on the study of merging-jet dynamics and the shocks that form as a result of the interaction, in both collisional and collisionless regimes with respect to the inter-jet classical ion mean free path, and with and without an applied magnetic field. However, many other studies are also possible, as discussed in this paper.

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