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This thesis presents several important aspects of the plasma dynamics in extremely high intensity electromagnetic fields when quantum electrodynamics effects have to be taken into account. This work is of utmost importance for the forthcoming generation of multipetawatt laser fa…
This carefully researched book presents facts and arguments showing, beyond a doubt, that nuclear fusion power will not be technically feasible in time to satisfy the world's urgent need for climate-neutral energy. The author describes the 70-year history of nuclear fusion; the …
Magnetic field - plasma interaction occurs in a wide variety of systems, from plasmas in space to plasmas in the laboratory. Magnetic fields push and penetrate plasmas. Pushing is expected to dominate when plasma resistivity is low, and penetration by diffusion is expected to do…
Wire array z-pinches provide an accessible means to research plasmas of high density and temperature and have valuable applications in the fields of inertial confinement fusion (ICF), astrophysics, and radiation studies. The purpose of this work is tungsten/aluminum z-pinch stud…
The shock-induced collapse of nanobubbles in water is investigated using molecular dynamics simulations based on a reactive force field. Monitoring the collapse of a cavitation nanobubble, we observe a focused nanojet at the onset of bubble shrinkage and a water hammer shock wav…
Experiments have been performed to investigate the relationship between the geometry of an idealised bed roughness and the structure of the turbulent boundary layer above. This work has particular applications in relation to architecture and environmental health, designing comfo…
This book addresses microwave chemistry at both the physical and molecular level. Its main goal is to elaborate the highly complex scientific issues involved in the fundamental theory of microwave chemistry, and in industrialized applications in the near future. The book provide…
Electron Bernstein waves are a mode of oscillation in a plasma, thought a candidate for providing radiofrequency heating and non-inductive current drive in spherical tokamaks. Previous studies of these modes have relied on neglecting or simplifying the contribution made by relat…
The role of cross field transport and volume recombination are of vital importance for a satisfactory understanding of the plasma edge in magnetically confined devices such as a Tokamak. Plasma fluctuations may travel cross field with significant velocities and play a central ro…
The objective of this dissertation is to develop a mesoscopic multiscale particle based computational method, extend its applicability to state-of-the-art problems and simulate microfluidic processes at mesoscale, An in-house comprehensive computational package based on dissipat…
The viscosity of the QGP is a presently hotly debated subject. Since its computation from first principles is difficult, it is desirable to try to extract it from experimental data. Viscous hydrodynamics provides a tool that can attack this problem and which may work in regions …
Relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments are currently the only controlled way to generate and study matter in the most extreme temperatures (T ~10e+12 K). At these temperatures matter undergoes a phase transition to an exotic phase of matter called the quark-gluon plasma (Q…
In this Dissertation, the existence of pseudo almost periodic solutions to some systems of nonlinear hyperbolic second-order partial differential equations is established. For that, (Al-Islam [4]) is first studied and then obtained under some suitable assumptions. That is, the e…