Fundamental and Applied Plasma Research
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This program will use facilities and expertise developed with past NSF          support to embark on a combined experimental and theoretical effort of          fundamental and applied research.  The fundamental research will be a           study of anomalous current penetration.  It is well known from                  classical eletromagnetic theory and also from experience in many                practical situations, that high frequency AC currents do not penetrate          uniformly through conductors as do DC currents but rather are confined          to a narrow suface region called the skin layer.  It is widely                  presumed that this classical skin effect is an unavoidable law of               nature; this presumption is incorrect because the skin effect is based          on Ohm's law which is not fundamental.  In fact, the classical skin             effect occurs only when the elementary form of Ohm's law together with          a symmetry assumption apply; this situation corresponds to current              penetration by laminar diffusion.  In the more complicated situations           to be studied here, asymmetric geometry is incorporated and the                 elementary Ohm's law is replaced by a more complex form; these changes          allow stochastic or convective diffusion to occur with the consequence          of much greater current penetration than provided by laminar                    diffusion.  The applied research will consist of a serious attempt to           use magnetohyrodynamic plasma stabilization techniques to eliminate             instabilities endemic and injurious to the arcs in electric furnaces            used by the steel industry. Paranthetically, these electric furnaces            provide approximately one third of the total steel manufactured in the          U.S.
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