Experimental Demonstration of Hydromagnetic Waves in an Ionized Gas
作者:
G. A. Sawyer,
P. L. Scott,
T. F. Stratton,
期刊:
Physics of Fluids(00319171)
(AIP Available online 1959)
卷期:
Volume 2,
issue 1
页码: 47-51
ISSN:0031-9171
年代: 1959
DOI:10.1063/1.1724390
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
A regular hydromagnetic oscillation was excited in a linear discharge tube with metal walls. An externally applied axial magnetic field and discharge currents less than 104amperes were essential to the production of the oscillation. Complete spatial current distributions derived from measurements of the radial and time dependence of the three components of magnetic field showed a helical notch (screw thread) of reduced current density which rotated with uniform angular velocity. The pitch and apparent rotational frequency of the oscillation depended on the gas density, discharge current, and applied axial magnetic field; the right‐ or left‐handedness and rotational sense depended on the relative orientation of the applied axial magnetic field and the self field of the discharge current. The helical regularity could be described as a superposition of hydromagnetic waves traveling in the axial and circumferential directions.
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