Accession Number:

AD0679110

Title:

OVERSTABLE MODES DUE TO RESISTIVITY GRADIENTS IN current-CARRYING PLASMA SLAB,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

AEROSPACE CORP EL SEGUNDO CALIF LAB OPERATIONS

Personal Author(s):

• Pridmore-Brown,David C.

Report Date:

1968-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

15.0

Abstract:

A preliminary study is made of overstable modes due to resistivity gradients in a current-carrying plasma slab. A restricted set of solutions satisfying a constant pressure assumption is found for the magnetohydrodynamic equations. These solutions turn out to be overstable in a certain range of the resistivity. Author

Descriptors:

• *PLASMAS(PHYSICS)
• STABILITY
• ELECTRIC CURRENT
• ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE
• MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS
• PRESSURE
• COMPRESSIVE PROPERTIES

Subject Categories:

• Plasma Physics and Magnetohydrodynamics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE