This study examines the stability regimes of three-dimensional interfacial gravity waves.The numerical results of the linear stability analysis extend the three-dimensional surface waves results of Ioualalen and Khari...This study examines the stability regimes of three-dimensional interfacial gravity waves.The numerical results of the linear stability analysis extend the three-dimensional surface waves results of Ioualalen and Kharif(1994)to three-dimensional interfacial waves.An approach of the collocation type has been developed for this purpose.The equations of motion are reduced to an eigenvalue problem where the perturbations are spectrally decomposed into normal modes.The results obtained showed that the density ratio plays a stabilizing factor.In addition,the dominant instability is of three-dimensional structure,and it belongs to class I for all values of density ratio.展开更多
Volume negative ion production relies on a magnetic filter(MF),where the plasma downstream of the MF is characterized by a strip-like pattern that consists of a bright and dense plasma region.In this work,we study,in ...Volume negative ion production relies on a magnetic filter(MF),where the plasma downstream of the MF is characterized by a strip-like pattern that consists of a bright and dense plasma region.In this work,we study,in a radio-frequency plasma source,the effects of operating pressure on this strip.This investigation,conducted using a Langmuir probe,shows that the plasma uniformity might be controlled through the gas pressure.Moreover,the operating pressure determines on which hemi-cylinder(side of magnetic field lines)the strip forms.This side inversion of the high-density plasma hemi-cylinder is due to an inversion of an ambipolar electric field that changes the E?×?B drift direction.展开更多
文摘This study examines the stability regimes of three-dimensional interfacial gravity waves.The numerical results of the linear stability analysis extend the three-dimensional surface waves results of Ioualalen and Kharif(1994)to three-dimensional interfacial waves.An approach of the collocation type has been developed for this purpose.The equations of motion are reduced to an eigenvalue problem where the perturbations are spectrally decomposed into normal modes.The results obtained showed that the density ratio plays a stabilizing factor.In addition,the dominant instability is of three-dimensional structure,and it belongs to class I for all values of density ratio.
文摘Volume negative ion production relies on a magnetic filter(MF),where the plasma downstream of the MF is characterized by a strip-like pattern that consists of a bright and dense plasma region.In this work,we study,in a radio-frequency plasma source,the effects of operating pressure on this strip.This investigation,conducted using a Langmuir probe,shows that the plasma uniformity might be controlled through the gas pressure.Moreover,the operating pressure determines on which hemi-cylinder(side of magnetic field lines)the strip forms.This side inversion of the high-density plasma hemi-cylinder is due to an inversion of an ambipolar electric field that changes the E?×?B drift direction.