Current Sheet Tilt in a Radial Magnetic Shock Tube
- 1 May 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 8 (5) , 866-871
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1761329
Abstract
An experiment is carried out in a radial (inverse pinch) shock tube with argon of 50–400μ pressure and hydrogen of 100μ pressure. The current sheet was found to be tilted so that the cathode side lagged the anode side. At the anode the shock has a tilt in the same direction as the current sheet. At the cathode the shock is normal. These phenomena can be correlated by physical models which assume that the current is predominantly carried by the ions.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Current Distribution in a Magnetic Annular Shock TubePhysics of Fluids, 1962