Measurements of velocity shear and ion viscosity profile in a magnetohydrodynamic plasma jet

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Pinch Effect, Plasma Collision Processes, Plasma Density, Plasma Diagnostics, Plasma Jets, Plasma Magnetohydrodynamics, Plasma Temperature, Plasma Transport Processes, Transport Properties, Magnetohydrodynamics, Plasma Dynamics And Flow, Laboratory Studies Of Space- And Astrophysical-Plasma Processes

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Time-dependent, two-dimensional profiles of the axial flow velocity, density, electron temperature, and magnetic field components are measured at two axial locations in a screw pinch plasma column of the reconnection scaling experiment. The results show that the ion momentum flux for a given column radius is dissipated by the ion-ion Coulomb scattering viscosity due to a significant radial shear of the axial velocity. By comparing the terms of the magnetohydrodynamic momentum balance equation, radial profile of ion viscosity is determined. Chord-integrated ion temperature measurements performed at several radial locations using Doppler broadening spectroscopy show ion temperature of about 1 eV. Measured ion viscosity agrees within a factor of 2 with the classical Braginskii expectations.

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