During the recent solar minimum, however,
plasma flowed all the way to the poles.
Structure of a Magnetic Flux Annihilation Layer Formed by the Collision of Supersonic, Magnetized
Plasma Flows
Observation of magnetic field generation via the Weibel instability in interpenetrating
plasma flows
Transition from Collisional to Collisionless Regimes in Interpenetrating
Plasma Flows on the National Ignition Facility
Magnetic fields stretched by
plasma flows, resulting in an increase in the field component along the plasma flow, can be frequently observed in space.
Researchers from Tohoku University have been trying to find out how
the plasma flow is influenced by its environment via laboratory experiments.
Plasma flows like a liquid but has the consistency of ketchup on a small scale.
Although the stretch of the magnetic field has been thought to occur when
the plasma flow reaches a specific velocity called the Alfven velocity, the experiment shows that it actually occurs at a slower velocity than expected.
Physical picture of the applied magnetic field lines (blue lines) and the magnetic field lines (red lines) modified by
the plasma flow, i.e., sum of the applied and plasma - induced magnetic fields.
IRIS can resolve solar features only 150 miles in size, has a temporal resolution of a few seconds, and has a spectral resolution capable of measuring
plasma flows of a few miles per second.
«How donut - shaped fusion plasmas managed to decrease adverse turbulence: Achieving fusion has become more realistic since
plasma flow was identified as regulating turbulence in the 1980s.»
Over the course of the past 30 to 40 years, they came to realise that turbulence and
plasma flow are linked and regulate each other.
«But our data still seem to show that the quark - gluon
plasma flows like a superhot liquid.»
Astronomers have been able to forecast trends in the number of sunspots since the 1800s, but predicting individual spots requires satellites that can probe the turbulent
plasma flows deep beneath the sun's surface.
«
Plasma flows in laboratory used to understand how beam - like jets may form in space.»
The researchers found that the interaction of the two plasmas sharply collimates the iron
plasma flow.
«In this way we can create a supersonic
plasma flow.»
Twisting
plasma flows beneath the sun's surface provide a way to predict potentially dangerous solar outbursts
Cross section of a tokamak plasma with red and blue colors showing direction and structure of
plasma flow.
Rats fed on alternate days showed preserved kidney function as demonstrated by preserved glomerular filtration rate and renal
plasma flow, compared to rats fed ad libitum.
Plasma flow control is still in an early research and development stage but shows potential for use in ultra-performance cars.
It is worth noting that Theodor Landscheidt — one of iconoclasts in the «solar - forcing - trumps GHG's» school of European solar physicists — predicted this possible Grand Minimum based on the theory that Gliessberg cycles generated by the Sun's oscillation around it's centre of mass directly affect the Coriolis force perturbing solar
plasma flow and the solar dynamo.
However, there appears to be a small deviation during the solar maximum of cycle 22, which is likely related to high pressure of solar wind
plasma flow velocity.
This may be related to the high
plasma flow pressure during years 1991 and 1992.
Not exact matches
Additionally, the kangaroo diet led to a rise in the
plasma levels of the polyunsaturated fatty acid arachidonic acid, which is high in the meat, and which has a positive effect on blood
flow.
At a certain distance from the sun, though, that
plasma escapes the corona and streams through the solar system as the solar wind, a constant
flow of charged particles that pummels the planets, including Earth (SN Online: 8/18/17).
Because blood is a complex suspension of red and white blood cells and platelets suspended within a
plasma that contains various proteins, it can exhibit complex
flow behavior.
Mausumi Dikpati and her colleagues at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., used new observations of the sun's interior and new computer simulations to model the
flow of
plasma, or electrically charged gas, that carry the sunspots like a conveyor belt until they become powerful enough to burst free and erupt on the sun's surface.
One school proposes that the transformation comes from a turbulence - generated sheared
flow of edge
plasma generated by a process called «Reynolds stress.»
High - energy protons and electrons come screaming out of the reconnection site,
flow along the loop, and crash into the denser
plasma at the sun's surface.
Dikpati used computer simulations to model the gargantuan rivers of
plasma that
flow across the sun's surface.
A solar satellite peering under a sunspot has detected powerful
flows of hot
plasma, which squeeze the spot's tight bundle of magnetic fields together and explain why sunspots remain stable.
The
plasma containing magnetic beads then
flows through the microchannels on the diagnostic chip in which the beads can be readily collected using a magnet to extract circulating exosomes from the
plasma.»
When magnetic reconnection occurs between two clouds of
plasma that have the same density, the exhaust
flow is wildly unstable — flapping about like a garden hose with too much water pressure.
This results from the solar wind interacting with the
plasma generated in the coma — the envelope of gas
flowing from a comet's nucleus as it is heated by the sun.
The model they generated is based on
plasma dynamics, a very hot partially ionized gas
flowing along the magnetic fields.
While such a device is called a
plasma cutter, it is really an electrical arc cutter (or welder), as the
plasma actually acts as a conductor to let an electrical current
flow through it.
Mr Qu developed a simpler theory for
plasma behaviour based on fluid
flow and was able to explain an unstable wave mode that had been observed in the United States» largest fusion experiment, DIII - D.
The
flows of water and air as expressed in three - dimensional equations differ significantly from five - dimensional
plasma behaviors in complexity and diversity.
Even protostars — these are young stars that are just forming and making their own planetary disks and so on — they make very powerful outflows called, the same sort of jets obviously moving at slower speeds, but they are full of
plasma, that is
flowing out at high speed; white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes big and small, they seem able to do this task, it really seems to be a very common phenomenon.
By applying the method developed in this research, measurement of the negative ion
flow at places still closer to the
plasma electrode is possible for clarifying more detailed mechanism of the negative ions extracted as a beam.
With nothing to prevent the resulting iron
plasma from spreading out, it would
flow quasi-spherically from the target.
«If
plasma (
flow) is turned on the right way, I can blow air any direction I want to blow air,» says Doug Blake, deputy director of the Air Force Research Lab's Air Vehicles Directorate, of the craft's ability to push air away from itself.
Roy has been working with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright - Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, since 2001 to study how
plasma could be used to control the
flow of air — pushing air in different directions — and thereby the vehicle's movements.
As a plane flies through a thunderstorm or other electrically charged environment, the outside of the plane begins to be polarized, forming «leaders,» or channels of highly conductive
plasma,
flowing from opposite ends of the plane and eventually out toward oppositely charged regions of the atmosphere.
As the plane becomes increasingly polarized, it can set off a highly conductive
flow of
plasma, called a positive leader — the preceding stage to a lightning strike.
These tiny droplets «
flow» in a manner similar to the behavior of the quark - gluon
plasma, a state of matter that is a mixture of the sub-atomic particles that makes up protons and neutrons and only exists at extreme temperatures and densities.
«Imagine two channels of
plasma propagating very quickly, and when they reach the cloud and the ground, they form a circuit, and current
flows through,» Guerra - Garcia says.
Another possibility is a so - called «cooling
flow» scenario, where gas cools from the ultra-hot (10 million degree) atmosphere of
plasma that surrounds the galaxies, forming pools of cold molecular gas that starts to form stars.
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