<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Experimental studies of discharges in the plasma focus facility with neon filling and respective numerical simulations employing the radiative Lee code are reported. The pinch currents exceed the Pease-Braginskii current, which indicates that radiative losses are larger than heating and that contraction of the formed plasma should occur. Both of these effects were indeed observed. Parallel numerical simulations were crucial for the identification of such an effect.</p></abstract>

Experimental studies of discharges in the plasma focus facility with neon filling and respective numerical simulations employing the radiative Lee code are reported. The pinch currents exceed the Pease-Braginskii current, which indicates that radiative losses are larger than heating and that contraction of the formed plasma should occur. Both of these effects were indeed observed. Parallel numerical simulations were crucial for the identification of such an effect.

Experiments and simulations on the possibility of radiative contraction/collapse in the PF-1000 plasma focus

Department of Physics, Atomic Energy Commission of Syria, Damascus, P. O. 6091, Syria

Czech Technical University in Prague, Technická 2, 166 27 Prague, Czech Republic

Institute for Experimental Physics V, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany

INTI International University, Nilai, Malaysia

Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, 23 Hery Str., 01-497 Warsaw, Poland

Nukleonika

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Experimental studies of discharges in the plasma focus facility with neon filling and respective numerical simulations employing the radiative Lee code are...

Experiments and simulations on the possibility of radiative contraction/collapse in the PF-1000 plasma focus

Published Online: Jun 15, 2016

Page range: 145 - 148

Received: Sep 18, 2015

Accepted: Nov 14, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nuka-2016-0025

© by Hans-Joachim Kunze

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