Figure 3
From: Dynamic formation of stable current-driven plasma jets
Schlieren Image Sequence: Schlieren images of the plasma jet with an external energy supply of 2.3 kJ at select times with 50 ns exposures. The flow is observed to be initially unstable to long-wavelength MHD instabilities that appear as perturbations on the envelope of the plasma column. At later times and with higher current flowing through the pinch, the flow appears to be stabilized over the observed window.
