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Generation of electrical pulses during formation and development of current-driven instabilities in plasmas

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Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, No. 4, pp. 24–31, July–August, 1993.

The author thanks L. A. Luk'yanchikov for continuing interest in this work and port and S. M. Ishchenko and K. A. Ten for helpful discussion and comments.

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Zubkov, P.I. Generation of electrical pulses during formation and development of current-driven instabilities in plasmas. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 34, 473–479 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00851460

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