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(1987)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 ...
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(1989)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 ...
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(1987)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 ...
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(1993)Relativistic Vlasov-Boltzmann kinetic equations are constructed from quantum field theory for scalar bosons and Dirac fermion fields. Lie's principle of differential invariance is extended to the case of non-linear ...
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(1989)The Faraday shield of an ion cyclotron resonant heating (ICRH) antenna has been identified as a local source of impurities during high-power ICRH experiments on confinement devices. The understanding of the plasma sheath ...
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(1990)A systematic method of making calculations for finite-strength, i.e., nonself-similar, shock waves is developed. Using concepts of Lie groups, the invariance properties of the spherically symmetric equations of gasdynamics ...
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(1992)The group theoretic, or Lie's method of continuous point transformations is applied to the study of shock wave propagation through solid media. Theoretically, this method allows for the systematic investigation of all ...
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(1990)Energy spectra of charged-fusion products escaping laser-imploded deuterium-tritium filled glass microballoon targets were measured with a time-of-flight (TOF) spectrometer. The TOF spectrometer was carefully designed, ...
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(2007)The simultaneous process of deposition, evaporation, and sputtering of lithium was modeled and corroborated with experimental observations such that no net deposition on the collector optic was measured and showed the model ...
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(1996)The semiconductor industry is introducing electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) plasma reactors as reliable wafer etching tools. This industry requires radially uniform etching rate and radially uniform etching anisotropy. ...
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(1987)Oscillating Field Current Drive (OFCD) was originally proposed as a means of maintaining a quasi steady-state plasma current in a RFP without building up the magnetizing flux threading the central hole of the torus. The ...
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Particle simulation of laser-produced plasmas on the basis of analytic magnetohydrodynamic solutions (1990)Inertial confinement fusion experiments using laser beams have reported the emission of hot electrons in large quantities. This phenomenon has been one of the major hindrances to the efficient compression of a thermonuclear ...
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(2001)The end result of the research program was a development of the first steady-state discharge treatment of the IEC Star Mode incorporating the new physics understandings unearthed over the last eight years. Experimental ...
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(1993)As a new and significant contribution to the tokamak literature, the linear internal MHD kink modes in finite aspect-ratio axisymmetric toroidally rotating tokamak equilibria and their kinetic modifications owing to the ...
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(1992)Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) is an alternative approach to fusion power that offers the ability to burn advanced fuels like D-He$\sp3$ in a non-Maxwellian, high density core. These aneutronic reactions are ideal ...
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(2004)Interaction between an ion beam and flowing liquid Li has been studied in the FLIRE facility as a first step towards a plasma/flowing liquid metal interaction experiment. The retained fraction of implanted helium transport ...
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(1992)Self-similar solutions are obtained for the supersonic compression of a plasma containing an axial current and an entrained axial magnetic field (screw-pinch). These solutions represent a complete generalization of previous ...
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(1995)A time-dependent theoretical model of flux-surface-averaged radial transport in tokamaks has been constructed and calibrated against a well documented set of temperature and density profiles from a pre-defined set of twelve ...
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(1991)In the present thesis work a theoretical transport model is suggested to study the anomalous transport of plasma particles and energy across the axisymmetric equilibrium toroidal magnetic flux surfaces in tokamaks. The ...
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