SamTheSerious Posted May 23, 2012 Posted May 23, 2012 Hi, I've been thinking about soloid or solitary waves alot lately, and I was wondering has anyone successfully built a soloid generator that used plasma as its medium? I looked into the topic but only found demonstrations in a water tank or in a tank of metal balls. I would seem logical to me that such a wave could be generated in a plasma, what do you think?
Enthalpy Posted May 26, 2012 Posted May 26, 2012 You mean such waves http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soliton ? It needs a nonlinear medium, so how does your plasma behave?
SamTheSerious Posted May 29, 2012 Author Posted May 29, 2012 well suppse you had a long tube that was under a vacuume, with electrodes at each end. When you apply a AC voltage between the ends if it was high enough voltage you would get a plasma between the electrodes so I was wondering if there would be a way to induce a solitary wave in that beam of plasma, it would probably look like a ball of plasma brighter then the rest that travels from one end to the other.
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