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Although the MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm has demonstrated suitability as a microwave imaging technique for detecting anomalies, there is a fundamental limit that it requires a switching device to be used which permits…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Won-Kwang Park

We investigate the intermittency of magnetic turbulence as measured in Reversed Field Pinch plasmas. We show that the Probability Distribution Functions of magnetic field differences are not scale invariant, that is the wings of these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Carbone , L. Sorriso-Valvo , E. Martines , V. Antoni , P. Veltri

The results of experimental and theoretical study of anomalous attenuation of probe extraordinary waves in experiments on modification of ionosphere by powerful HF waves on "Sura" heating facility are presented. The experimental data…

This study investigates how two- and three-wave configurations govern particle escape and transport in tokamak edge plasmas. Using a Hamiltonian model derived from drift-wave turbulence, we analyze test particle dynamics through Poincar\'e…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-26 P. Haerter , E. D. Leonel , R. L. Viana

We discuss the conceptual design of a spatially-resolved spectroscopy system of Thomson scattering with high wavelength resolution capable of measuring the shape of electron velocity distribution functions in magnetically confined plasmas.…

Computer simulations of radio energy transfer in the ionospheric layer with random small-scale irregularities for the case of a point ground-based source and total reflection have been carried out using specially designed algorithm based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. A. Zabotin , E. S. Kovalenko

Of particular interest for radio and hard X-ray diagnostics of accelerated electrons during solar flares is the understanding of the basic non-linear mechanisms regulating the relaxation of electron beams propagating in turbulent plasmas.…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-03-06 Nicolas H. Bian , Eduard P. Kontar , Heather Ratcliffe

This work explores a novel approach to mitigating turbulence in fusion plasmas through spatially modulated plasma profiles. By imposing a harmonic modulation on plasma parameters, we introduce conditions that alter the propagation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Ilya Shesterikov

In a new toroidal laboratory plasma device including a poloidal magnetic field created by an internal circular conductor, the confinement efficiency of the magnetized plasma and the turbulence level are studied in different situations. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Thiery Pierre

A new analysis method has been developed for measurements of broadband, low-amplitude turbulent electron temperature fluctuations in fusion plasmas using individual radiometer channels of a Correlation Electron Cyclotron Emission (CECE)…

Novel approach for density measurements at the edge of a hot plasma device is presented - Microwave Interferometer in the Limiter Shadow (MILS). The diagnostic technique is based on measuring the change in phase and power of a microwave…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-17 Mariia Usoltceva , Stéphane Heuraux , Ildar Khabibullin , Helmut Faugel

Recent gyrokinetic stability calculations have revealed that the spherical tokamak is susceptible to tearing parity instabilities with length scales of a few ion Larmor radii perpendicular to the magnetic field lines. Here we investigate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-05-15 D J Applegate , C M Roach , J W Connor , S C Cowley , W Dorland , R J Hastie , N. Joiner

The goal of this paper is to understand from a mathematical point of view the magnetic confinement of plasmas for fusion. Following Fr\'enod and Sonnendr\"ucker \cite{FS2}, we first use two-scale convergence tools to derive a gyrokinetic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-20 Daniel Han-Kwan

Radiative diagnostics of high-energy density plasmas is addressed in this paper. We propose that the radiation produced by energetic particles in small-scale magnetic field turbulence, which can occur in laser-plasma experiments,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Sarah J. Reynolds , Mikhail V. Medvedev

We construct the low-frequency formulation of the turbulence characterizing the plasma in a Tokamak edge. Under rather natural assumptions we demonstrate that, even in the presence of poloidal magnetic fluctuations, it is possible to deal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Giovanni Montani , Fabio Moretti

Strongly driven ion-scale turbulence in tokamak plasmas is shown to be regulated by a new propagating zonal flow mode, the toroidal secondary mode, which is nonlinearly supported by the turbulence. The mode grows and propagates due to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Richard Nies , Felix Parra , Michael Barnes , Noah Mandell , William Dorland

This paper aims at providing a small-volume expansion framework for the scattering resonances of an open cavity perturbed by small particles. The induced shift of the scattering frequencies by the small particles is derived without…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-26 Habib Ammari , Alexander Dabrowski , Brian Fitzpatrick , Pierre Millien

We consider backscattering of laser pulses in strongly-magnetized plasma mediated by kinetic magnetohydrodynamic waves. Magnetized low-frequency scattering, which can occur when the external magnetic field is neither perpendicular nor…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Matthew R. Edwards , Yuan Shi , Julia M. Mikhailova , Nathaniel J. Fisch

In the study on nonlinear wave-wave processes in an ionosphere and a magnetosphere usually the main attention is paid to investigation of plasma turbulence at well developed stage, when the wide spectrum of plasma wave is present. On the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. S. Volokitin , B. Atamaniuk

A general criterion is proposed and found to successfully predict the emergence of chirping oscillations of unstable Alfv\'enic eigenmodes in tokamak plasma experiments. The model includes realistic eigenfunction structure, detailed…