TY - GEN
T1 - Current status and future prospects for laboratory study of angular momentum transport relevant to astrophysical disks
AU - Ji, Hantao
PY - 2010/9
Y1 - 2010/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - accretion disks
KW - hydrodynamics
KW - instabilities
KW - magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)
KW - methods: laboratory
KW - plasmas
KW - turbulence
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U2 - 10.1017/S174392131100651X
DO - 10.1017/S174392131100651X
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79959213900
SN - 9780521197410
T3 - Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
SP - 18
EP - 25
BT - Advances in Plasma Astrophysics
A2 - Bonanno, Alfio
A2 - de Gouveia Dal Pino, Elisabete
A2 - Kosovichev, Alexander
ER -