Hydromagnetic Stability of a Self-Gravitating Composite Plasma in the Presence of Finite Larmor Radius

The hydromagnetic stability of a self-gravitating composite plasma has been studied to include the effects of ion viscosity and the finiteness of the ion Larmor radius. The whole medium is embedded in a uniform horizontal magnetic field. The F. L. R. effects have been included through the stress tensor. An explicit solution for a semi-infinite plasma of finite depth and with an exponential density variation along the vertical is obtained by means of a variational principle characterizing the problem. Numerical calculations show that the influence of the effects of ion viscosity and F. L. R. is to reduce the growth rate of unstable perturbations. On the other hand the effects of neutral gas collisions have been found to be both stabilizing as well as destabilizing.     

Stability of a Self-Gravitating Partially Ionized Plasma

The dynamic stability of a stratified layer of a partially ionized, self-gravitating plasma is studied to investigate the effects of finite electrical conductivity. The whole system is immersed in a uniform vertical magnetic field. It is first shown that the solution is characterized by a variational principle. An explicit solution has been then obtained for a semi-infinite composite plasma in which the density has a one-dimensional gradient along the vertical. Numerical calculations show that the influence of neutral gas friction and self-gravitation is stabilizing whereas character of finite electric conductivity is destabilizing.     

Stability of a Stratified Layer of a Gravitating Partially Ionized Plasma

The instability in a stratified layer of a self-gravitating partially ionized plasma has been studied in the presence of effects of Hall currents. For a plasma permeated by a uniform vertical magnetic field, the dispersion relation has been obtained through variational method. It is found that the Hall currents have a destabilizing effect while the neutral gas frictional effects have a stabilizing influence.     

Effects of Hall Currents and Gyroviscosity on the Instability of a Self-Gravitating Stratified Plasma

The instability in a horizontal layer of a partially ionized self gravitating plasma has been studied to include simultaneously the effects of Hall currents, viscosity and finiteness of Larmor radius (FLR). The ambient magnetic field is assumed to be uniform and vertical. Proper solutions have been obtained through the variational methods for a semi-infinite plasma in which the density has an exponential gradient along the vertical. The dispersion relation obtained has been solved numerically and it is found that the growth rate of unstable perturbations decreases with the effects of viscosity, neutral gas friction and FLR. The influence of effects of viscosity, neutral gas friction and FLR are consequently stabilizing. It is found that the Hall currents have a destabilizing influence as the growth rate is found to increase with this effect.     

Stability of a Rotating Compressible Stratified Plasma in the Presence of Hall Currents and Magnetic Resistivity

The dynamic instability in a horizontal layer of a rotaing compressible plasma of variable density has been investigated to examine the influence of the simultaneous presence of the effects of Hall currents and finite magnetic resistivity. The linearized stability analysis has been carried out through the normal mode technique. By making use of the existence of a variational principle which is shown to characterize the problem, proper solutions have been obtained for a semiinfinite plasma in which there is an exponential density gradient along the vertical. The dispersion relation obtained has been solved numerically and it is found that both the resistivity and the Hall currents have a destabilizing influence as the growth rate of the unstable disturbances increases with increasing values of the parameters characterizing these effects. On the other hand, the Coriolis forces are found to have a stabilizing influence for in this case the growth rate decreases with increasing rotation.     

Self-Gravitational Instability of a Stratified Viscous Hall-Plasma of Finite Conductivity

The hydromagnetic instability of a self-gravitating, incompressible, finitely conducting, viscous plasma of varying density has been investigated. The ambient magnetic field is assumed to be uniform and vertical. It is first shown that a variational principle characterizes the problem. The proper solutions have then been obtained, by the variational methods, for a semi-infinite plasma contained between two horizontal free boundaries. The dispersion relation has been solved numerically It is found that the growth rate of the unstable mode increases with the magnetic resistivity and with the Hall-currents while it decreases with the increasing viscosity. The influence of the effects of magnetic resistivity as well as of Hall-currents is, consequently, destabilizing on the dynamic instability of a self-gravitating stratified plasma. Viscosity has, however, a stabilizing influence on the growth rate of the disturbance.     

Effects of Hall Currents and Gyroviscosity on the Stability of a Finitely Conducting Rotating Viscous Plasma of Variable Density

The Rayleigh-Taylor instability of an incompressible viscous, finitely conducting, rotating plasma of variable density has been investigated in the presence of the effects of Hall currents and finite ion Larmor radius. The proper solution for a semi-infinité plasma layer having exponentially varying density in the vertical direction has been obtained by making use of a variational principle which is shown to characterize the problem. The dispersion relation has been solved numerically. It is found that gyroviscosity, viscosity and coriolis forces have stabilizing influence whereas Hall currents and resistivity have a destabilizing influence.     

Effects of Hall Currents on the Self-Gravitational Instability of a Finitely Conducting Plasma of Variable Density

The effects of Hall currents have been studied on the hydromagnetic stability of a self-gravitating, incompressible, viscous and finitely conducting plasma of variable density. For a uniform and horizontal magnetic field which is present, it is shown that the problem is characterized by a variational principle. Making use of this, proper solutions have been obtained for a semi-infinite plasma in which the density varies one-dimensionally (exponentially) along the vertical. The dispersion relation has been solved numerically for the different values of the parameters involved. It is found that the growth rate increases with both the Hall currents and resistivity, showing thereby the destabilizing character of these effects. However, the influence of viscosity is found to be stabilizing as the growth rate decreases with viscosity.     

Dynamics of a supercritical composite shaft mounted on viscoelastic supports

The damping in a carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) laminate is greater than that which occurs in most metallic materials. In the supercritical regime, the damping can trigger unstable whirl oscillations, which can have catastrophic effects. The vibrations occurring in a supercritical composite drive shaft are investigated here in order to predict instabilities of this kind. A simply supported carbon/epoxy composite tube mounted on viscoelastic supports is studied, using an approximation of the Rayleigh–Timoshenko equation. The damping process is assumed to be hysteretic. The composite behavior is described in terms of modulus and loss factor, taking homogenized values. The critical speeds are obtained in several analytical forms in order to determine the effects of factors such as the rotatory inertia, the gyroscopic forces, the transverse shear and the supports stiffness. Assuming that the hysteretic damping can be expressed in terms of the equivalent viscous model, the threshold speed is obtained in the form of an analytical criterion. The influence of the various factors involved is quantified at the first critical speed of a subcritical composite shaft previously described in the literature. The influence of the coupling mechanisms on the unsymmetrical composite laminate and the end fittings is also investigated using a finite element model. None of these parameters were found to have a decisive influence in this case. Those having the greatest effects were the transverse shear and the supports stiffness. The effects of the composite stacking sequence, the shaft length and the supports stiffness on the threshold speed were then investigated. In particular, drive shafts consisting only of ±45° or ±30° plies can be said to be generally unstable in the supercritical regime due to their very high loss factors.     

Gravitational Instability of a Thermally Conducting Plasma in an Oblique Magnetic Field

The combined influence of the effects of Hall currents, magnetic resistivity and viscosity have been studied on the gravitational instability of a thermally conducting homogeneous unbounded plasma in an oblique magnetic field. The solution has been obtained through the normal mode technique and the dispersion relation has been derived. It is shown that the Jeans' criterion for gravitational instability remains unchanged. Solving numerically the dispersion relation, the dependence of the growth rate of the gravitational unstable mode on the considered physical effects has been obtained for an astrophysical situation. For conditions prevailing in the magnetized collapsing clouds, the numerical calculations for the plot of growth rate against wave number has been obtained for several values of the parameters characterizing Hall currents magnetic resistivity viscosity thermal conductivity. It is found that magnetic resistivity and thermal conductivity have destabilizing influence while viscosity has stabilizing influence on the instability of the plasma of disturbance m(ϱ) = 9 × 10⁻³ kg.     

Gravitational Instability of a Rotating Viscous Thermally Conducting Plasma

This paper deals with the gravitational instability of an infinite homogeneous viscous rotating plasma of finite electrical conductivity in the combined presence of effects of Hall currents, finite Larmor radius (FLR) and thermal conductivity. The ambient magnetic field is assumed to be uniform and acting along the vertical direction. Both longitudinal and transverse modes of wave propagation have been studied. It is shown that Jean's criterion determines the gravitational instability even in the presence of the effects of thermal conductivity, viscosity, finite electrical conductivity, FLR, rotation and Hall currents. Further it is found that while FLR, viscosity and rotation have a stabilizing influence, both the thermal and the electrical conductivities have a destabilizing influence on the gravitational instability of a plasma.     

Frictional effects with neutrals and Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a compressible Hall plasma

The effect of neutral gas friction is considered on the Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a compressible plasma in the presence of Hall currents. The prevailing magnetic field is assumed to be uniform and horizontal. It is shown that the solution is characterized by a variational principle. Based on the variational principle the dispersion relation is derived for a composite plasma, confined between two horizontal planes at a finite distance, in which the density is stratified in the direction of gravity according to the exponential law. It is found that the effect of collisions with neutrals, Hall currents and compressibility of the medium have destabilizing influence as the wave number range which is stable in their absence, is rendered unstable by their presence.     

Influence of Finite Larmor Radius with Finite Electrical and Thermal Conductivities on the Gravitational Instability of a Magnetized Rotating Plasma Through a Porous Medium

An infinitely extending homogeneous, self-gravitating rotating magnetized plasma flowing through a porous medium has been considered under the influence of Finite Larmor Radius (FLR) and other transport phenomena. A general dispersion relation has been derived through the linearized perturbation equations. Longitudinal and transverse modes of propagation have been discussed for the rotation with axis parallel and perpendicular to the magnetic field. The joint influence, of the aforesaid parameters, does not essentially change the Jeans' criterion of instability but modifies the same. The adiabatic sonic speed has been replaced by the isothermal one due to the thermal conductivity. It is further observed that the FLR corrections have stabilizing effect for an inviscid, non-rotating plasma, in case of transverse propagation. Rotation decreases the Larmor radius, whereas the porosity reduces the effects of rotation, FLR, and the magnetic field. Viscosity removes the effects of both, the roation, and the FLR corrections.     

Unsaturated polyester resin (UPR) reinforced with flax fibers,untreated and cold He plasma-treated: thermal,mechanical and DMA studies

Hemp, jute, flax, bagasse, coconut and bamboo fibers are some of the natural fibers that have attracted attention for the preparation of composite materials because of their low cost compared with synthetics fibers (glass, carbon). The performance of a natural fiber as reinforcement in composite materials is linked to its ability in term of adhesion with the synthetic matrix. This depends mainly on the quality of the fiber surface. In order to improve this adhesion, a thin reactive coating is generally used. In this study, cold He plasma treatments have been carried out on reinforcing flax fiber. Composites with unsaturated polyester resin (UPR) have been used with untreated flax fibers and plasma-treated fibers. The data characterizing the thermal, mechanical (dynamic and static) will be presented in order to analyze the efficiency of the He plasma treatment on the composite performances.     

Modified Debye screening potential in a magnetized quantum plasma

The effects of quantum mechanical influence and uniform static magnetic field on the Shukla-Nambu-Salimullah potential in an ultracold homogeneous electron-ion Fermi plasma have been examined in detail. It is noticed that the strong quantum effect arising through the Bohm potential and the ion polarization effect can give rise to a new oscillatory behavior of the screening potential beyond the shielding cloud which could explain a new type of possible robust ordered structure formation in the quantum magnetoplasma. However, the magnetic field enhances the Debye length perpendicular to the magnetic field in the weak quantum limit of the quantum plasma.     

Change of radiation pattern in a plasma monopole antenna

Abstract

In the present work, we have numerically solved the dispersion equation of the surface wave propagating on a uniform collisional plasma column. The electric field and surface current distributions have been computed in different situations. We have investigated the effect of plasma frequency variation on the spatial distribution of the surface current. Results show that varying the electron density of the plasma column enables the plasma column to work as a plasma monopole antenna with a fixed geometrical structure and excited frequency which is able to create different radiation patterns. Our numerical analysis also shows that a little change in the radius of the plasma column has a strong influence on the current distribution at the excited frequency in RF region. This effect can be ignored in the usual (metallic) antenna while it is very important in designing of the plasma monopole antenna.     

分形复合油藏非牛顿幂律流体不稳定渗流的数学模型

对不稳定渗流的数学模型进行了推导并建立了分形复合油藏不稳定渗流模型.在无限大地层、有界定压、有界封闭三种外边界条件下分别求出了它们在Laplace空间的解析解.对于两区的特殊情况,分析了井底压力动态特征和参数影响,制作了典型曲线.非牛顿幂律流体的幂律指数,分形参数均对典型曲线产生较大的影响,呈现出与牛顿流体和均质油藏明显不同的特征.这对于非均质油藏非牛顿流体的不稳定试井分析和研究非线性渗流特征都是十分重要的.     

Fundamental study towards a better understanding of low pressure radio-frequency plasmas for industrial applications

Two classic radio-frequency (RF) plasmas, i.e., the capacitively and the inductively coupled plasmas (CCP and ICP), are widely employed in material processing, e.g., etching and thin film deposition, etc. Since RF plasmas are usually operated in particular circumstances, e.g., low pressures (mTorr-Torr), high-frequency electric field (13.56 MHz-200 MHz), reactive feedstock gases, diverse reactor configurations, etc., a variety of physical phenomena, e.g., electron resonance heating, discharge mode transitions, striated structures, standing wave effects, etc., arise. These physical effects could significantly influence plasma-based material processing. Therefore, understanding the fundamental processes of RF plasma is not only of fundamental interest, but also of practical significance for the improvement of the performance of the plasma sources. In this article, we review the major progresses that have been achieved in the fundamental study on the RF plasmas, and the topics include 1) electron heating mechanism, 2) plasma operation mode, 3) pulse modulated plasma, and 4) electromagnetic effects. These topics cover the typical issues in RF plasma field, ranging from fundamental to application.     

直流非转移弧热等离子体喷枪加热效率分析

利用计算机模拟技术,采用有限容积方法,针对自制的低能耗、高效率内送粉等离子喷涂设备,对喷枪内部影响喷涂热效率的因素进行了分析。研究结果表明通过适当提高进气流量、提高混合气体中的氮气或氢气含量和减少喷枪通道长度,均能提高等离子喷枪热效率。而电流的大小以及喷枪的通道直径对热效率无显著影响。     

Operational characteristics of a MAGPIE coaxial CO2 discharge system

The operational characteristics of a convectively cooled Magnetically stabilized, Photo-initiated, Impulse-enhanced, Electrically-excited (MAGPIE) coaxial discharge system are described. terminal behavior is examined as a function of several parameters, such as gas flow, pulser ionization, and magnetic field strength. In-situ plasma potential measurements are also presented, which indicate that CO₂ attachment effects have considerable influence on the spatial electrical characteristics of the gas discharge.