Investigation of Global MHD Instabilities in Multi-component Z-pinch Plasma
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Sotnikov, V.I.; Covington, A.; Darling, T.; Farkas, A.; Leboeuf, J.N.; Oliver, B.V.; Mehlhorn, T.A.; Sarkisov, G.; Hellinger, P.; Travnicek, P.
- Source
- 2007 IEEE 34th International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) Plasma Science, 2007. ICOPS 2007. IEEE 34th International Conference on. :397-397 Jun, 2007
- Subject
- Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Nuclear Engineering
Magnetohydrodynamics
Plasma density
USA Councils
Plasma simulation
Laboratories
Wires
Optical arrays
Deuterium
Palladium
Kinetic energy
- Language
- ISSN
- 0730-9244
Summary form only given. In the process of plasma ablation from wires in a wire array, consisting of deuterium and palladium, plasma in the precursor consists of heavy and light ions. In this multi-component current carrying plasma global MHD instabilities can develop. Dependence of the growth rates of such instabilities from the density ratio of heavy and light ions as well as kinetic energy partition between the two plasma components is discussed. We also present results of 3D hybrid simulations of sausage and kink instabilities in the multi-component plasma of the precursor.