Accession Number:

AD0832624

Title:

A THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF BOUNDED PLASMAS.

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis,

Corporate Author:

AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Personal Author(s):

• McDonald, Jerry Dean

Report Date:

1968-06-01

Pagination or Media Count:

61.0

Abstract:

The effect of boundaries on the two-stream instability problem for a plasma with a negligible thermal velocity spread is investigated. Two models, a slab and a cylinder of plasma, are used in the calculation of the surface charge density at the boundaries. A dispersion relation is obtained for each model with and without an externally applied magnetic field. From the dispersion relation it is shown that instabilities in the bounded plasmas are not appreciably different from those in an infinite plasma with boundaries. Author

Descriptors:

• *THERMONUCLEAR REACTIONS
• *PLASMAS(PHYSICS)
• CONTAINMENT(NUCLEAR REACTORS)
• STABILITY
• OSCILLATION
• MAGNETIC FIELDS
• PERTURBATION THEORY
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• INTERFACES
• THESES

Subject Categories:

• Plasma Physics and Magnetohydrodynamics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE