Interactions of magnetized plasma flows in pulsed-power driven experiments

Suttle, Lee George; Burdiak, Guy C.; Cheung, Chung L.; Clayson, Thomas; Halliday, Jack W. D.; Hare, Jack D.; Rusli, Sonja; Russell, Daniel; Tubman, Eleanor; Ciardi, Andrea; Loureiro, Nuno F.; Li, Jiawei; Frank, Adam; Lebedev, Sergey V.

doi:10.1088/1361-6587/ab5296

Interactions of magnetized plasma flows in pulsed-power driven experiments

Journal Article · Wed Oct 30 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ab5296· OSTI ID:1574793

^[1]; Burdiak, Guy C. ^[2]; Cheung, Chung L. ^[2]; Clayson, Thomas ^[2]; Halliday, Jack W. D. ^[2]; ^[2]; Rusli, Sonja ^[2]; Russell, Daniel ^[2]; Tubman, Eleanor ^[2]; Ciardi, Andrea ^[3]; Loureiro, Nuno F. ^[4]; Li, Jiawei ^[5]; Frank, Adam ^[6]; Lebedev, Sergey V. ^[2]

Imperial College, London (United Kingdom). Blackett Lab.; Imperial/ Cornell
Imperial College, London (United Kingdom). Blackett Lab.
Univ. Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) (France). Sorbonne Univ., Observatorie de Paris
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Northwest Inst. of Nuclear Technology, Xi'an (China)
Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

A supersonic flow of magnetized plasma is produced by the application of a 1 MA-peak, 500 ns current pulse to a cylindrical arrangement of parallel wires, known as an inverse wire array. The plasma flow is produced by the J x B acceleration of the ablated wire material, and a magnetic field of several Tesla is embedded at source by the driving current. This setup has been used for a variety of experiments investigating the interactions of magnetized plasma flows. In experiments designed to investigate magnetic reconnection, the collision of counter-streaming flows, carrying oppositely directed magnetic fields, leads to the formation of a reconnection layer in which we observe ions reaching temperatures much greater than predicted by classical heating mechanisms. The breakup of this layer under the plasmoid instability is dependent on the properties of the inflowing plasma, which can be controlled by the choice of the wire array material. In other experiments, magnetized shocks were formed by placing obstacles in the path of the magnetized plasma flow. The pile-up of magnetic flux in front of a conducting obstacle produces a magnetic precursor acting on upstream electrons at the distance of the ion inertial length. This precursor subsequently develops into a steep density transition via ion-electron fluid decoupling. Obstacles which possess a strong private magnetic field affect the upstream flow over a much greater distance, providing an extended bow shock structure. Finally, in the region surrounding the obstacle the magnetic pressure holds off the flow, forming a void of plasma material, analogous to the magnetopause around planetary bodies with self-generated magnetic fields.

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Research Organization:: Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: NA0003764; SC0001063; SC0016215

OSTI ID:: 1574793

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 23027332

Journal Information:: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Journal Name: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 62; ISSN 0741-3335

Publisher:: IOP ScienceCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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