Scaling laws for dynamical plasma phenomena
Abstract
A scaling and similarity technique is a useful tool for developing and testing reduced models of complex phenomena, including plasma phenomena. Similarity and scaling arguments will be applied to highly dynamical systems where the plasma is evolving from some initial to some final state, which may differ dramatically from each other in size and plasma parameters. A question then arises whether, in order to better understand the behavior of one such system, is it possible to create another system, possibly much smaller (or larger) than the original one, but whose evolution would accurately replicate that of the original one, from its initial to its final state. This would allow a researcher, by an experimental study of this second system, to make confident predictions about the behavior of the first one (which may be otherwise inaccessible, as is the case of some astrophysical objects, or too expensive and hard to diagnose, as in the case of fusion applications of pulsed plasma systems, or for other reasons). The scaling and similarity techniques for dynamical plasma systems will be presented as a set of case studies of problems from various domains of plasma physics, including collisional and collisionless plasmas. Finally, among the resultsmore »
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- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1482879
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1477915
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-JRNL-751145
Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X; 936977
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physics of Plasmas
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 25; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; astrophysics; laboratory procedures; magnetohydrodynamics; plasma physics; plasma confinement; plasma instabilities
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Ryutov, D. D. Scaling laws for dynamical plasma phenomena. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.5042254.
Ryutov, D. D. Scaling laws for dynamical plasma phenomena. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5042254
Ryutov, D. D. Wed .
"Scaling laws for dynamical plasma phenomena". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5042254. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1482879.
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title = {Scaling laws for dynamical plasma phenomena},
author = {Ryutov, D. D.},
abstractNote = {A scaling and similarity technique is a useful tool for developing and testing reduced models of complex phenomena, including plasma phenomena. Similarity and scaling arguments will be applied to highly dynamical systems where the plasma is evolving from some initial to some final state, which may differ dramatically from each other in size and plasma parameters. A question then arises whether, in order to better understand the behavior of one such system, is it possible to create another system, possibly much smaller (or larger) than the original one, but whose evolution would accurately replicate that of the original one, from its initial to its final state. This would allow a researcher, by an experimental study of this second system, to make confident predictions about the behavior of the first one (which may be otherwise inaccessible, as is the case of some astrophysical objects, or too expensive and hard to diagnose, as in the case of fusion applications of pulsed plasma systems, or for other reasons). The scaling and similarity techniques for dynamical plasma systems will be presented as a set of case studies of problems from various domains of plasma physics, including collisional and collisionless plasmas. Finally, among the results discussed are similar for MHD systems with an emphasis on high-energy-density laboratory astrophysics, interference between collisionless and collisional phenomena in the context of shock physics, and similarity for liner-imploded plasmas.},
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year = {Wed Oct 17 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
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