Kumar Deepak, Bellan Paul M
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2009 Sep 4;103(10):105003. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.105003.
Nonequilibrium Alfvénic flows have been observed in plasma jets during the helicity injection stage of the Caltech spheromak experiment. Density and time of flight measurements of these jets show that the flows convect dense plasma (beta approximately 1) because of the axial gradient in the current channel profile. A simplified MHD theory is derived to model the flow.
在加州理工学院球形托卡马克实验的螺旋度注入阶段，已在等离子体喷流中观测到非平衡阿尔文流。对这些喷流的密度和飞行时间测量表明，由于电流通道剖面中的轴向梯度，这些流体会对流致密等离子体（β约为1）。推导了一个简化的磁流体动力学理论来对该流进行建模。
