Thesis – Table of Contents Experimental Setup and Overview of the Temperature Filament Large Plasma Device The Large Plasma Device (LAPD-U), part of the Basic Plasma Science Facility (BaPSF) at UCLA, provides an ideal parameter regime in which to perform this experimental investigation. The present device, as shown in Fig. 2.1, is a larger version […]
Thesis – Bibliography
Table of Contents Bibliography W. Horton. Drift waves and transport. Rev. Mod. Phys., 71(3):735-778, Apr 1999. doi: 10.1103/RevModPhys.71.735 Committee on Solar and Space Physics, Plasma Physics of the Local Cosmos. National Research Council, 2004. T.E. Evans, M.E. Fenstermacher, R.A. Moyer, T.H. Osborne, J.G. Watkins, P. Gohil, I. Joseph, M.J. Schaffer, L.R. Baylor, M. Bécoulet, J.A. […]
Exponential Frequency Spectrum in Magnetized Plasmas
This paper represents the main result from my Ph.D. Thesis: power spectra with exponential dependencies in frequency (semilog format) can be caused by Lorentzian shaped pulses in the time series of the measured fluctuating quantity. Knowing this can provide a big step in the understanding of how transport processes evolve in a plasma, for example, […]
Spontaneous Thermal Waves in a Magnetized Plasma
This paper holds a special place in my heart as my very first primary-author paper. It was also very fun to write because the observation (discovery!) was not an intended goal of my Ph.D. thesis project. My thesis was about wave fluctuations in a tiny plasma filament. Along the way, however, I found that there […]
The Buddhist Temple We Never Knew
During a recent trip to my hometown of Stockton, California (on Google Maps) I visited the local Buddhist Temple. It was quite a coincidence that just before leaving for Stockton I saw an episode of Road Trip with Huell Howser in which he toured the city. That episode visited some areas of Stockton that I […]
Albert Einstein’s Logic Puzzle, Maybe
I have been introduced to a logic puzzle that was supposedly written by Albert Einstein. The version I originally read came from the Brain-Fun website. The story that goes along with the puzzle is that Einstein claimed only 2% of the population would be able to solve it. Some of the other people reading the […]