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It is shown that asymmetry of neutral components going to and from the wall results in a net force, inducing blob plasma polarization and radial blob motion. This mechanism may explain experimental observations of coherent plasma density structures in linear devices. Estimates of the radial blob velocity are in agreement with experimental data.
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Krasheninnikov et al. (2003) studied this question.
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