Dense‐Plasma Research Using Ballistic Compressors

Heß, H.

doi:10.1002/ctpp.19860260402

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Experimental Demonstration of Time Delay between Maximum Pressure and Piston Reversal Point and its Relation to Loss Processes in Ballistic Compressors

Wirsig¹,

Schneidenbach²

1989

Contrib. Plasma Phys.

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Ballistic compressors are well-known tools for investigations of non-ideal plasmas [ 11.In such devices a plasma is generated by rapid compression of gases in a closed barrel with the aid of a piston accelerated by a driver gas, without the influence of external electric fields or currents. I n our apparatus, called AIKA, we get a plasma disc (diameter 150 mm, thickness z,ln a few mm, see Fig. l), surrounded by metallic walls (piston front plate, small part of inner barrel surface, barrel closure). These walls give rise to energy losses and the formation of boundary layers which complicate theoretical treatment of the plasmas generated. Due to leakages between piston and barrel (slit width about 5 to 10 pm) and between closure part and barrel, particle losses must be taken into

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