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Theory of a Flush‐Mounted Probe in a Magnetized Plasma
Author(s) -
Rozhansky V.,
Ushakov A.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
contributions to plasma physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1521-3986
pISSN - 0863-1042
DOI - 10.1002/ctpp.19980380108
Subject(s) - plasma , ionization , electric field , electrode , atomic physics , current (fluid) , particle (ecology) , materials science , physics , mechanics , computational physics , ion , nuclear physics , oceanography , quantum mechanics , thermodynamics , geology
A problem of a flush‐mounted probe in a fully ionized magnetized plasma (such as SOL plasma) is treated analytically and numerically for arbitrary probe size. The model describes the structure of electric field and particle fluxes, as well as the transport processes, in a plasma zone disturbed by the probe. The I‐V characteristics and the structure of return current to the electrode are derived on this basis.