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This work investigates the discharge properties of a cylindrical magnetized capacitive coupled plasma discharge produced between a pair of coaxial cylinders. For the purpose of diagnosing plasma properties and electron energy distribution…
It is claimed that all of the pressure scales of the reported melting curves derived by diamond anvil cell experiments require a correction which takes into account the pressure thermal shift, where vanadium is an illustrative example. The…
Because currently the most popular method of calculating plasma self-consistent fields is an incomplete method which, strictly speaking, is not suitable to scientific investigation, we develop this method into be a complete reliable basic…
Self-guided femtosecond laser pulses propagating in low-pressure gas can generate plasma filaments, establishing a new framework for plasma wakefield acceleration. Unlike conventional schemes relying on mechanically confined or preformed…
Atmosphere-breathing electric propulsion systems harness atmospheric particles as propellant, enabling efficient operation across diverse environmental conditions. To accurately simulate the captured gas flow through the modules,…
The Multi-region Relaxed MHD (MRxMHD) has been successful in the construction of equilibria in three-dimensional (3D) configurations. In MRxMHD, the plasma is sliced into sub-volumes separated by ideal interfaces, each undergoing…
A selfconsistent 1D theoretical framework for plasma assisted ignition and combustion is reviewed. In this framework, a frozen electric field modeling approach is applied to take advantage of the quasiperiodic behaviors of the electrical…
We study a technique for verification of stress and pressure computations on boundaries in flow simulations. We utilize existing experiments to provide validation of the simulations. We show that this approach can reveal critical flaws in…
Laser-plasma based experiments are always more demanding about the plasma features which need to be generated during the interaction. This is valid for laser-plasma acceleration as well as for inertial confinement fusion experiments. Most…
Ionic polymer-metal composites consist in a thin film of electro-active polymers (Nafion R for example) sandwiched between two metallic electrodes. They can be used as sensors or actuators. The polymer is saturated with water, which causes…
This paper presents the results of an experimental study of a new hybrid plasmatron scheme, which was used to realize a gas discharge at atmospheric pressure supported by continuous focused submillimeter radiation with a frequency of 263…
Three-dimensional numerical model is developed and applied for studies of physical processes in Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source. The model includes separate modules that simulate the electron and ion dynamics in the source plasma in…
The electron sheath formation in a DC magnetised plasma of modified hollow cathode source is studied. The discharge consists of two plane parallel cathodes and a small cubical anode placed off axis at the center. The argon plasma is…
Production of antihydrogen atoms by mixing antiprotons with a cold, confined, positron plasma depends critically on parameters such as the plasma density and temperature. We discuss non-destructive measurements, based on a novel, real-time…
Active Plasma Resonance Spectroscopy (APRS) is a well known diagnostic method, where a radio frequency probe is immersed into a plasma and excites plasma oscillations. The response of the plasma is recorded as frequency dependent spectrum,…
In heavy-ion collisions, quark-gluon plasma is likely to be produced with sizable initial pressure anisotropy, which may leave an imprint on electromagnetic observables. In order to model a strongly coupled anisotropic plasma, we use the…
The present paper describes a parallel unstructured-mesh Plasma simulation code based on Finite Volume method. The code dynamically refines and coarses mesh for accurate resolution of the different features regarding the electron density.…
In many astrophysical plasmas, the Coulomb collision is insufficient to maintain an isotropic temperature, and the system is driven to the anisotropic regime. In this case, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) models with anisotropic pressure are…
By performing an ensemble of molecular dynamics simulations, the model-dependent ionisation state is computed for strongly interacting systems self-consistently. This is accomplished through a free energy minimisation framework based on the…
In this study, we have investigated the production of negative ions by mixing electronegative oxygen gas with electropositive argon gas in a geometrically asymmetric cylindrical capacitively coupled radio frequency plasma discharge. The…