Characterisitics of the hall current surrounding a magnetized filamentary plasma

The effect of time-varying flow-shear on the nonlinear stability of the boundary of magnetized toroidal plasmas

We propose a phenomenological yet very general model in a form of generalized complex Ginzburg-Landau equation to understand the dynamics of the quasi-periodic fluid instabilities (called edge-localized modes) in the boundary of toroidal magnetized high-temperature plasmas. The model reproduces key dynamical features of the boundary instabilities observed in the high-confinement state plasmas on the KSTAR tokamak, including quasi-steady states characterized by field-aligned filamentary eigenmodes, transitions between different eigenmodes, and rapid transition to non-modal filamentary structure…

Particle Diffusion and Acceleration by Shock Wave in Magnetized Filamentary Turbulence

We expand the off-resonant scattering theory for particle diffusion in magnetized current filaments that can be typically compared to astrophysical jets, including active galactic nucleus jets. In a high plasma beta region where the directional bulk flow is a free-energy source for establishing turbulent magnetic fields via current filamentation instabilities, a novel version of quasi-linear theory to describe the diffusion of test particles is proposed. The theory relies on the proviso that the injected energetic particles are not trapped in the small-scale structure of magnetic fields wrappi…

Numerical code SELFAS-3 and electrodynamic aggregation of magnetized nanodust

The principles of the parallel numerical code SELFAS-3 are presented. The code modifies previous version of the code to enable parallel computations of electrodynamic aggregation in a many-body system of basic blocks which are taken as strongly magnetized thin rods (i.e., one-dimensional static magnetic dipoles), with electric conductivity and static electric charge, screened with its own static plasma sheath. The aggregation modelling includes the electric current dynamics in a complicated evolving network to describe the processes of external and internal electric short-circuiting. The code …

Intermittent turbulence and turbulent structures in a linear magnetized plasma

Strongly intermittent turbulence is observed in the shadow of a limiter in the Large Plasma Device (LAPD) at UCLA [W. Gekelman, H. Pfister, Z. Lucky, J. Bamber, D. Leneman, and J. Maggs, Rev. Sci. Inst. {\bfseries 62}, 2875 (1991)]. The amplitude probability distribution function (PDF) of the turbulence is strongly skewed, with density depletion events (or ``holes'') dominant in the high density region and density enhancement events (or ``blobs'') dominant in the low density region. Two-dimensional cross-conditional averaging shows that the blobs are detached, outward-propagating filamentary s…

Simple model of skeletal matter composed of magnetized electrically conducting thin rods

A simple electrodynamic model for describing the behavior of a skeletal matter composed of magnetized, electrically conducting thin rods (1D magnetic dipoles) is proposed. It is aimed at modeling the self-assembling of a skeletal matter from carbon nanotubes (or similar nanodust), as suggested for interpreting the experimental data on the long-lived filamentary structures in the high-current electric discharges. Here the capability of the model is illustrated with the example of how a straight tubular skeleton, which is composed of ~300 dipoles and carry circular electric current in its wall, …

磁化射频等离子体中丝化过程的粒子模拟研究

Particle-In-Cell simulations of the filamentation process in magnetized radio-frequency plasmas

本文通过二维粒子模拟研究磁化射频等离子体中丝状结构的形成与演化，揭示其经历双阶段动力学过程，并阐明磁力与电力分别驱动电子和离子聚集以塑造丝状结构的机制。