Equilibria of a rigidly rotating, fully ionized plasma column
- 1 May 1987
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 61 (9) , 4689-4691
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.338381
Abstract
Due to the quadratic dependence of the centrifugal force on the rotation frequency, a single-fluid model of a rigidly rotating, semi-infinite plasma column has two equilibrium solutions. When the potential and pressure gradients across the column nearly balance each other, the rotation equilibria correspond to a low frequency which is small compared to the ion cyclotron frequency, and a high frequency which is roughly equal to the negative of the cyclotron frequency. This communication describes the different plasma properties which characterize these two equilibria.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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