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Explosive instabilities of reaction-diffusion equations including pinch effects

Abstract

Particular solutions of reaction-diffusion equations for temperature are obtained for explosively unstable situations. As a result of the interplay between inertial, diffusion, pinch and source processes certain `bell-shaped` distributions may grow explosively in time with preserved shape of the spatial distribution. The effect of the pinch, which requires a density inhomogeneity, is found to diminish the effect of diffusion, or inversely to support the inertial and source processes in creating the explosion. The results may be described in terms of elliptic integrals or. more simply, by means of expansions in the spatial coordinate. An application is the temperature evolution of a burning fusion plasma. (au) (18 refs.).
Authors:
Publication Date:
Dec 31, 1992
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
CTH-IEFT-PP-1992-21
Reference Number:
SCA: 700340; PA: AIX-24:025253; SN: 93000948456
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: [1992]
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; PLASMA INSTABILITY; PLASMA EXPANSION; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ION TEMPERATURE; PINCH EFFECT; PLASMA DRIFT; PLASMA WAVES; 700340; PLASMA WAVES, OSCILLATIONS, AND INSTABILITIES
OSTI ID:
10128038
Research Organizations:
Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Goeteborg (Sweden). Inst. for Electromagnetic Field Theory and Plasma Physics
Country of Origin:
Sweden
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE93617840; TRN: SE9200370025253
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS; INIS
Submitting Site:
SWDN
Size:
[12] p.
Announcement Date:
Jul 04, 2005

Citation Formats

Wilhelmsson, H. Explosive instabilities of reaction-diffusion equations including pinch effects. Sweden: N. p., 1992. Web.
Wilhelmsson, H. Explosive instabilities of reaction-diffusion equations including pinch effects. Sweden.
Wilhelmsson, H. 1992. "Explosive instabilities of reaction-diffusion equations including pinch effects." Sweden.
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title = {Explosive instabilities of reaction-diffusion equations including pinch effects}
author = {Wilhelmsson, H}
abstractNote = {Particular solutions of reaction-diffusion equations for temperature are obtained for explosively unstable situations. As a result of the interplay between inertial, diffusion, pinch and source processes certain `bell-shaped` distributions may grow explosively in time with preserved shape of the spatial distribution. The effect of the pinch, which requires a density inhomogeneity, is found to diminish the effect of diffusion, or inversely to support the inertial and source processes in creating the explosion. The results may be described in terms of elliptic integrals or. more simply, by means of expansions in the spatial coordinate. An application is the temperature evolution of a burning fusion plasma. (au) (18 refs.).}
place = {Sweden}
year = {1992}
month = {Dec}
}