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…
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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…
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…
This dissertation provides a detailed determination of the visible emission spectra and plasma parameters of an exploding single aluminum (Al) wire while addressing the applicability of a new spectroscopic measurement technique to measure magnetic fields (B) in dense plasmas, wh…
In these times of striving for cleaner, more efficient fuels, research is needed to provide understanding that will allow technologies to improve. Planar laser induced fluorescence (PLIF) is a popular, non-intrusive technique for studying flame structure. A radical species, hydr…
This thesis covers essentially two problems in the kinetic theory of plasmas. The first concerns the investigation of plasma oscillations in a constant electric field - a topic investigated by Akheizer and Sitenko as early as 1956 [1] More recently Stenflo [2] has considered the…