The expansion of a plasma into a vacuum
- 1 August 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Plasma Physics
- Vol. 14 (1) , 65-76
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022377800025538
Abstract
This paper reports calculations of the collision-free expansion of a semi-infinite plasma. It is shown that the ion front is accelerated to velocities comparable with the thermal velocity of the electrons.Keywords
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