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Current status and future prospects for laboratory study of angular momentum transport relevant to astrophysical disks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2011
Abstract
A concise review of the past and ongoing laboratory experiments on rotating flows and the associated angular momentum transport relevant to astrophysical disks is given in three categories: hydrodynamic, magnetohydrodynamic, gas and plasma experiments. Future prospects for these experiments, especially for those directly relevant to the magnetorotational instability (MRI), are discussed with an emphasis on a newly proposed swirling gas and plasma experiment.
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- Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S274: Advances in Plasma Astrophysics , September 2010 , pp. 18 - 25
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- Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011
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