Hybrid simulations of current-carrying instabilities in Z-pinch plasmas with sheared axial flow

0176455 - UFA-U 20033501 RIV US eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Sotnikov, V. I. - Makhin, V. - Bauer, B. S. - Hellinger, Petr - Trávníček, Pavel - Fiala, Vladimír - LeBoeuf, J. N.
Hybrid simulations of current-carrying instabilities in Z-pinch plasmas with sheared axial flow.
Dense Z-pinches: 5th International conference on dense Z-pinches. College Park, Maryland: American institute of physics, 2002 - (Davis, J.), s. 396-399. ISBN 0-7354-0108-X.
[5th International conference on dense Z-pinches. Albuquerque (US), 23.06.2002-28.06.2002]
R&D Projects: GA AV ČR IAB3042106
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z3042911
Keywords : hybrid simulations * Z-pinch * plasma instabilities
Subject RIV: BL - Plasma and Gas Discharge Physics

The development of instabilities in z-pinch plasmas has been studied with three-dimensional (3D) hybrid simulations. Plasma equilibria without and with sheared axial flow have been considered. Results from the linear phase of the hybrid simulations compare well with linear Hall magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) calculations for sausage modes. The hybrid simulations show that sheared axial flow has a stabilizing effect on the development of both sausage and kink modes.
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