Pinch phenomena A pinch (or: Bennett pinch (after Willard Harrison Bennett), electromagnetic pinch, magnetic pinch, pinch effect, or plasma pinch.) is...

fusion power research, the Z-pinch (zeta pinch) is a type of plasma confinement system that uses an electric current in the plasma to generate a magnetic field...

the Z-pinch concept. Both the DPF and pinch use large electrical currents run through a gas to cause it to ionize into a plasma and then pinch down on...

A reversed-field pinch (RFP) is a device used to produce and contain near-thermonuclear plasmas. It is a toroidal pinch that uses a unique magnetic field...

unincorporated community Pinch, West Virginia, a census-designated place in Kanawha County Pinch (plasma physics), the compression of a plasma filament by magnetic...

thruster Solar plasma Plasma spraying Plasma in a tokamak Laboratory plasma Chemistry portal Physics portal Science portal Quark-gluon plasma Liddell, Henry...

pinch, Plasma Physics, (Arshad M. Mirza, Zahoor Ahmad, N.A.D Khattak, G Murtaza) Study of Plasma Parameters in a Spinning Thick-Gas-Puff Staged Pinch...

This is a list of plasma physics topics. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Ablation Abradable coating Abraham–Lorentz...

support for plasma physics. Scylla I was a classified machine at the time, so the achievement was hidden from the public. A traditional Z-pinch passes a...

In plasma physics, plasma stability concerns the stability properties of a plasma in equilibrium and its behavior under small perturbations. The stability...

demonstrated that a stable plasma equilibrium requires magnetic field lines that wind around the torus in a helix. Devices like the z-pinch and stellarator had...

of a fusion plasma precludes the use of material vessels for direct containment. Magnetic confinement fusion attempts to use the physics of charged particle...

Theta-pinch, or θ-pinch, is a type of fusion power reactor design. The name refers to the configuration of currents used to confine the plasma fuel in...

produced by a generator a metre in diameter composed of three modules. Pinch (plasma physics) Explosive-driven ferroelectric generator Explosive-driven ferromagnetic...

1960s, the theory behind plasma cosmology was introduced by Alfvén, a plasma expert who won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics...

This is a list of physicists who have worked in or made notable contributions to the field of plasma physics. Whistler (radio) waves Langmuir waves...

through the plasma itself. Systems using only magnets are generally built using the stellarator approach, while those using current only are the pinch machines...

creates a corresponding magnetic field around the conductor (see Pinch (plasma physics)). Because of Lenz's Law, the magnetic fields created within the...

cold plasma 1985: Increasing the current density in a plasma 1986: In the accretion column of a neutron star 1986: By pinches in cosmic plasma regions...

the arc. Plasma channels tend to self constrict (see plasma pinch) due to magnetic forces stemming from the current flowing through the plasma. On Earth...

by Martin David Kruskal and Vitaly Shafranov, who noticed that the plasma in pinch effect reactors would be stable if q was larger than 1. Macroscopically...

Z‐pinch." Physics of Plasmas 3.2 (1996): 554-560 Shumlak, Uri, et al. "Increasing plasma parameters using sheared flow stabilization of a Z-pinch." Physics...

A nonthermal plasma, cold plasma or non-equilibrium plasma is a plasma which is not in thermodynamic equilibrium, because the electron temperature is...

(born 1948) is a French physicist. He is known for his research in plasma physics, thermonuclear fusion by magnetic confinement, hybrid fusion-fission...

from the APS Division of Plasma Physics, "for exceptional experimental achievements in both laser and z-pinch plasma physics, dedicated service to the...

where he founded the Plasma Physics and Nuclear Fusion Laboratory. His main contributions are in experimental physics (plasma physics in particular). The...

economist and mountaineer Johannes de Villiers Graaff. Matter wave Pinch (plasma physics) Z-pinch "George Paget Thomson". Le Prix Nobel. the Nobel Foundation...

fusion Pinch (plasma physics) Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production Stellarator Timeline of nuclear fusion Tokamak TAE Technologies Z-pinch (zeta pinch) Thorson...

gov/news/resources/releases/2007/rapid-fire-pulse.html http://www-ners.engin.umich.edu/labs/plasma/Research/ZPinch.html Portals: Energy Physics Science Technology...

machines with Z-pinch configurations in the 1950s. It is one of the common magnetohydrodynamic instability modes which can develop in a pinch plasma and is sometimes...