Spatially periodic plasma structures appearing in fast heavy-current discharges

Self-organization of high current-carrying plasmas: Toroidal plasmoid in neck of pinch discharge

“…Thus, TPN in the plasma focus, vacuum spark, and Z-pinch can be treated as the Kvartskhava structure [1], namely as an H-filament of the pinch type [2,4]. An experimental evidence of the TPN existence is in [5].…”

“…The experimental data concerning TPN are in [1]. We could expect a TPN generation in a plasma column with a corrugated boundary or with Ω-like current configuration.…”

“…Formation of filaments along the magnetic field (the Kvarstkhava pinch-structures of H-type) in the θ-pinch devices is a well-known phenomenon [1]. We consider these filaments as an example.…”

“…1. The images of Θ-pinch and the radial cross-section of helium H-filaments from [1] at I = 230 kA and at two moments: t1 = 4.5μs and t2 = 6.5μs.…”

Self-similarity of plasma networking in a broad range of length scales: From laboratory to cosmic plasmas

“…The latter is true of the filaments of electric current as they often appear to sustain their integrity as long as the plasma itself exists and to dominate in plasma dynamics. 2,3 However, the role of filamentation in global plasma dynamics seems to be underestimated yet. Existing numeric hydrocodes for modeling most of the plasmas consider the plasma as a nonfilamentary medium.…”