Imperial College London

ProfessorSergeyLebedev

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Physics

Professor of Plasma Physics
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 7748s.lebedev Website

 
 
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Location

 

743Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Fogerty:2019:10.1016/j.hedp.2019.100699,
author = {Fogerty, E and Liu, B and Frank, A and Carroll-Nellenback, J and Lebedev, S},
doi = {10.1016/j.hedp.2019.100699},
journal = {High Energy Density Physics},
pages = {1--9},
title = {Hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic simulations of wire turbulence},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hedp.2019.100699},
volume = {33},
year = {2019}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - We report on simulations of laboratory experiments in which magnetized supersonic flowsare driven through a wire mesh. The goal of the study was to investigate the ability of such aconfiguration to generate supersonic, MHD turbulence. We first report on the morphologicalstructures that develop in both magnetized and non-magnetized cases. We then analyze the flowusing a variety of statistical measures, including power spectra and probability distributionfunctions of the density. Using these results we estimate the sonic mach number in the flowsdownstream of the wire mesh. We find the initially hypersonic (Ms = 20) planar shock throughthe wire mesh does lead to downstream turbulent conditions. However, in both magnetizedand non-magnetized cases, the resultant turbulence was marginally supersonic to transonic(Ms ∼ 1), and highly anisotropic in structure.
AU - Fogerty,E
AU - Liu,B
AU - Frank,A
AU - Carroll-Nellenback,J
AU - Lebedev,S
DO - 10.1016/j.hedp.2019.100699
EP - 9
PY - 2019///
SN - 1574-1818
SP - 1
TI - Hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic simulations of wire turbulence
T2 - High Energy Density Physics
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hedp.2019.100699
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574181819300229?via%3Dihub
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/72156
VL - 33
ER -