Z-pinch instability with distributed current
- 1 February 1984
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 55 (3) , 704-707
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.333127
Abstract
Sausage and kink growth rates for a Z pinch are computed from ideal magnetohydrodynamic theory for an infinitely thin surface current sheath and for a surface current layer of finite width. The growth rate decreases with increasing layer width. Satisfactory agreement with experiment is obtained for reasonable width estimates based on magnetic field diffusion.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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