Current Filamentation in Parallel-Field Turbulent Plasmas
- 7 July 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 35 (1) , 39-42
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.35.39
Abstract
An electromagnetic instability leading to filamentation of the current flowing along a magnetic field in a highly resistive plasma is investigated. The instability provides a possible explanation of the discrepancy that exists between turbulent-heating experiments and numerical simulations of the electrostatic parallel-field current-driven instability.Keywords
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