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- 1Gnanasekaran, Aparajit
- 1HOSSAIN, MD MANIR
- 1Manuel, Ajay P.
- 1Mazzino, Maria L P
- 1Popov, Konstantin
- 3Plasma Physics
- 2Plasma
- 1Aerodynamics
- 1BEAM
- 1CH-Plane
- 1Charged particle dynamics; tightly focused laser; short laser pulses; ultrahigh intensity interactions; nano-scale targets; direct vacuum acceleration; Coulomb explosion; monoenergetic electrons; monoenergetic ions
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Fall 2018
Langmuir amplitude modulations and harmonic waves, generated by solar wind electron beams, are commonly observed in type III solar radio bursts. Various mechanisms have been proposed for the origin of these waves, but there is still ongoing debate on how the observation of continuous type III...
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Field Line Resonances in Earth’s Magnetosphere: A study of their Observation, Characterization and Wave Sources in the Solar Wind
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This thesis is an observational study of field line resonances (FLRs), between 0.5-5 mHz, in the Earth’s magnetosphere, and their correlation with Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) waves in the solar wind. The mechanisms for these phenomena are not yet completely understood and there is still great...
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Fall 2017
In this thesis we present Particle-in-Cell (PIC) plasma simulations designed to model large amplitude whistler waves. There are significant nonlinear effects that arise due wave-wave and wave-particle interactions. There are two related sections to this report: one investigating the evolution of...
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Fall 2009
In this Thesis, two problems were studied: a direct vacuum acceleration of electrons by a tightly focused ultrashort relativistic laser pulse and ion acceleration in the process of spherical laser-heated plasma explosion. The electromagnetic field of a tightly focused laser pulse was evaluated...
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Spring 2022
One of the prominent areas of interest in current plasma science is focused on understanding the mechanisms of heat transport beyond classical Coulomb collisions. The topic has applications in many areas of plasma physics, such as the solar corona and nuclear fusion devices. In strongly...
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Non-Linear Time Series Analysis Methods and Their Application to Fluctuation Data From Plasma Experiments
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Non-linear fluctuations are a common feature of data extracted from plasma experiments and are common in the edge regions of magnetically confined plasmas where long filament-like structures of density and temperature can generate them. These fluctuations are associated with turbulence and...
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Fall 2016
The Single Dielectric Barrier Discharge (SDBD) plasma actuator is currently considered as one among the many promising active flow-control devices. Research interest in modeling the plasma actuator is motivated by the fundamental principle of facilitating the prediction of airflow over different...
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Spring 2011
The complete set of Kubo conductivity tensors are computed for two- and three-dimensional linear magnetic null systems using collisionless single-particle simulations. Chaos regions are constructed for each case, along with the complete Lyapunov spectrum. It is found that stochastic frequency...