Critical Rotational Velocities in Toroidally Confined Plasma
- 23 November 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 25 (21) , 1478-1479
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.25.1478
Abstract
Critical rotational velocities about the magnetic axis in a toroidally confined plasma are derived from a kinematical condition for the formation of spatial discontinuities (steady shock waves) in ideal magnetohydrodynamics.Keywords
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