asymmetric_implosion wrote: Two DPFs firing at each other is about 30 years old. The concept evolved into what is known as the hypocycloidal pinch.
I have a similar question about placing two DPF’s such that they are facing each other. My thought is that if you developed two couterrotating toroidal shaped plasmoids that they could then interact with each other and form a stable structure that would have a relatively long lifetime. From what I’ve read about the hypocycloidal pinch this is not the plasma structure that was forming. This could be because the there was no counter rotation. Howerver, if angular momentum is generated externally, then they could be made to counter rotate. Has this approach been tried before?
