Investigations of diffusional effects in applied-B ion diodes
- 1 December 1993
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics
- Vol. 5 (12) , 4408-4418
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.860956
Abstract
In this article, a general study of diffusional effects is made numerically as well as theoretically with the aim to reproduce not only the current scaling of ion diodes but also the divergence of the ion beam and physical features such as virtual cathode movement due to the diamagnetic effect. It has been observed experimentally that the ion current exceeds that quantity which would be expected in the presence of a strong magnetic field. It is demonstrated that with the introduction of a diffusional field Eθ into the stationary 21/2-dimensional particle-in-cell code based on boundary-fitted coordinates [T. Westermann, Nucl. Instrum. Methods A 263, 271 (1988)] the simulation results agree well with experiment. This ad hoc model is supported theoretically by linear stability analysis of the stationary state.Keywords
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