Sentences with phrase «plasma flowing from»

Not exact matches

Transition from Collisional to Collisionless Regimes in Interpenetrating Plasma Flows on the National Ignition Facility

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).

Researchers from Tohoku University have been trying to find out how the plasma flow is influenced by its environment via laboratory experiments.

One school proposes that the transformation comes from a turbulence - generated sheared flow of edge plasma generated by a process called «Reynolds stress.»

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.»

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 flows of water and air as expressed in three - dimensional equations differ significantly from five - dimensional plasma behaviors in complexity and diversity.

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.

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.

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.

One theory involves the solar wind, the steady flow of plasma that emanates from a star.

More importantly, during the declining phase of the solar maximum high - speed streams develop in the solar wind that is made up of plasma that flows from the sun.

And they will use computer models to «check our understanding of how the exhaust power flows from the plasma to the stellarator's first wall,» said Neilson.

Known as a «test divertor unit (TDU) scraper element,» the component intercepts some of the heat flowing towards the divertor — a part of the machine that collects heat and particles as they escape from the plasma before they hit the stellarator wall or degrade the plasma's performance.

The information could help GE develop a method for protecting the liquid - metal cathode — the negative terminal inside the tube — from damage from the ions carrying the current flowing through the plasma.

As blood flows throughout the body, a thin, yellow fluid called plasma leaks out from blood vessels and mixes with interstitial fluid and water to surround the cells in different tissues.

TPE is an apheresis (removal of impurities from blood) treatment in which plasma contaminated with damaging auto - antibodies, toxins or abnormal proteins is separated from the patient's flowing blood and exchanged with donor plasma that is returned to the patient to render the patient less susceptible to or free from immunologic attack or other pathologic processes.