Conveners
(DPP) T3-2 Plasma Physics Symposium III | Symposium de physique des plasmas III (DPP)
- Ahmad Hamdan
- Stephan Reuter (Polytechnique Montreal)
Burst-mode ultrafast laser-materials treatments use high-repetition-rate (>MHz) delivery of femtosecond laser pulses. This takes advantage of characteristically tiny residual heat left in a substrate through individual femtosecond-laser-matter interaction. At the same time, the approach opens the door to manipulating the accumulation of that same tiny heat from rapid repetition. This mode of...
Filamentary plasma structures aligned with magnetic fields are ubiquitous in various space and laboratory plasma environments. In numerous magnetic confinement devices, such coherent structures called blobs or blob-filaments, are intermittently formed in the boundary layer region of the device and transported across magnetic field lines through ExB convective motion. These structures can be...
Plasma flow and acceleration in the magnetic nozzle with converging-diverging magnetic configuration are important for applications in electric propulsion and fusion systems such as open mirrors and tokamak divertors. We report on some features of plasma acceleration in the magnetic nozzle that have been revealed in recent analytical and computational studies. The non-monotonic magnetic field...
