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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The mechanism of vapor bubble detachment at zero gravity has been studied both analytically and numerically. Instead of analyzing the force balance, this study emphasizes momentum conservation, the time integral of the ...