Stability of magnetically insulated ion diodes
- 1 June 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 28 (6) , 1948-1955
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.864939
Abstract
Magnetically insulated ion diodes are examined for instability using analytical and numerical techniques. Two basic sources which drive instability are found: one due to a two‐stream‐type interaction between electrons and ions and the other due to ion transit time effects.Keywords
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