Thesis – Table of Contents Pulse Detection Techniques Overview The study of exponential spectra and accompanying Lorentzian pulses in time series data requires that the pulses be isolated for determining their characteristic widths. A variety of identification techniques have been applied to the large data set of this experiment, and notes on two of these […]
Thesis – Appendix A: Wavelet Analysis to Calculate Power Spectra
Thesis – Table of Contents Wavelet Analysis to Calculate Power Spectra Overview Wavelet analysis techniques, while not as commonly understood as Fourier analysis, are nonetheless frequently applied to problems in which time and frequency information are desired simultaneously. Analysis suites such as IDL (popular in plasma physics circles) provide complete libraries for easily incorporating these […]
Thesis – Chapter 7: Conclusions
Thesis – Table of Contents Conclusions Studies of filamentary pressure structures are an ongoing work within the LAPD-U laboratory. The work of Burke, et al. [1998, 2000a, b] (and [Burke, 1999]) established the ability of this experimental geometry to observe classical transport in magnetically confined plasmas. An increase in transport and the loss of classical […]
Thesis – Chapter 6: Plasma Flow Parallel to Background Magnetic Field
Thesis – Table of Contents Plasma Flow Parallel to Background Magnetic Field Plasma flow is studied in relation to another aspect of this thesis, namely the thermal wave. This section examines describes flows aligned with the applied background magnetic field, i.e., parallel flows. Spatiotemporal Behavior and Modeling A comparison of the time evolution of parallel […]
Convective beam ion losses due to Alfven eigenmodes in DIII-D reversed-shear plasmas
This paper presents the first observations of coherent beam ion losses due to plasma waves in the DIII-D tokamak. The actual measurement is the flux of beam ions that hit a probe located at the outer wall. That diagnostic, the Fast Ion Loss Detector (FILD), was built as part of a collaboration with the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak. […]
Modeling the Response of a Fast Ion Loss Detector Using Orbit Tracing Techniques in a Neutral Beam Prompt Loss Study on the DIII-D Tokamak
This paper details a method for correlating measurements of beam ion losses with the injection of individual beams in the DIII-D tokamak. This turns out to be a great tool for making sense of the measurements. The probe measures ion impacts, and then we use particle orbit calculations to backtrack the ions to specific beams. […]