Experimental observations of the thermal expansion of a plasma
作者:
G. C. Goldenbaum,
K. A. Gerber,
期刊:
Physics of Fluids(00319171)
(AIP Available online 1973)
卷期:
Volume 16,
issue 8
页码: 1289-1297
ISSN:0031-9171
年代: 1973
DOI:10.1063/1.1694510
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
A dense argon plasma(n e = 4 × 1018cm − 3, KT = 4 eV)is created and allowed to expand either into a vacuum or into a low density, partially ionized plasma. Expansion into a vacuum is shown to be dominated by electric‐field effects which accelerate ions to much higher energies(E ≲ 180 eV)than the original thermal energy. Expansion into a low density(n e = 1 × 1013cm − 3)10% ionized plasma of the same species was dominated by resonant charge exchange giving the appearance of momentum transfer. Expansion into a hydrogen plasma shows essentially complete momentum transfer as in a blast wave. Expansion of a hydrogen plasma into an ambient argon plasma shows spatially separated regions in which the hydrogen appears to collisionally snowplow the argon plasma.
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