Abstract
Electrode damage due to radiative heating of a plasma cluster moving in a rail plasma accelerator is treated in this paper. A two-dimensional heat conduction equation is used for a description of this phenomenon. A numerical solution is given for various situations in the accelerator.
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Uzel, M., Maloch, J. & Kulhánek, P. Two-dimensional model of electrode radiative heating in rail plasma accelerator. Czech J Phys 40, 664–672 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01597861
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01597861