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In a number of papers [1–7] carried out on various pulsed electromagnetic accelerators the appearance of a lamellar structure in the stream of accelerated ionized gas occurs having an oscillation frequency of several megahertz. The majority of authors relate the development of irregularities in the stream with local peculiarities in the flow of electric currents (secondary breakdowns [6], the formation of micropinches [3–5], the motion of a current spiral [2], etc.). Notwithstanding the generality of many properties of the irregularities recorded under various conditions, no unified point of view exists as yet concerning the nature of their development.
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Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 4, pp. 143–149, July–August, 1970.
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Rushailo, A.M. On stream inhomogeneities in a pulsed electromagnetic accelerator. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 11, 653–660 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00850855
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00850855