The thesis introduces an algorithm to generate customized libraries for automated radio-isotope identifiers using peak searching and library comparison methods. The algorithm has the adaptive feature that could incorporate ...

D-T fusion-born alpha particles are mirror-confined in the central cell of a tandem mirror reactor. The resulting anisotropic loss-cone distribution of the alpha particles in velocity space is capable of destabilizing low ...

The characteristics of the helicon plasma injection into the IEC were explored. The first such analysis was a COMSOL simulation to determine the voltage as a function of position in the helicon dielectric tube when the IEC ...

The scope of this Master Thesis is the two-fluid model. This study aims at analysing their ill-posedness, showing how it is related to non-hyperbolicity and giving a measurement that I call the numerical hyperbolicity. ...

This dissertation describes the design, construction, and proof-of-principle verification of a neutral hydrogen flux detection system, based on an ECRH discharge as the neutral flux ionizer. The significant features of the ...

A theoretical model for the turbulent dispersion of a concentration of non-Stokesian particles has been developed. The basic assumptions for the fluid are that the turbulence is Gaussian, homogeneous, and ergodic. The ...

A method for determining the characteristics of the mineral matter in coal was developed based on two types of factor analysis. Classical factor analysis was shown to identify trends in data sets that are indicative of the ...

The invariance properties of various sets of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations are studied using techniques from the theory of differential forms. Equations considered include the ideal MHD equations in different geometries ...