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PLASMA AND FUSION SCIENCE From Fundamental Research to Technological Applications PLASMA AND FUSION SCIENCE From Fundamental Research to Technological Applications Edited by B. Raneesh, PhD Nandakumar Kalarikkal, PhD Jemy James, MSc Anju K. Nair, MPhil Apple Academic Press Inc. Apple Academic Press Inc. 3333 Mistwell Crescent 9 Spinnaker Way Oakville, ON L6L 0A2 Canada Waretown, NJ 08758 USA ©2018 by Apple Academic Press, Inc. Exclusive worldwide distribution by CRC Press, a member of Taylor & Francis Group No claim to original U.S. Government works Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper International Standard Book Number-13: 978-1-77188-453-2 (Hardcover) International Standard Book Number-13: 978-1-315-36594-7 (eBook) All rights reserved. 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Kalarikkal, Nandakumar, editor III. James, Jemy, editor, IV. Nair, Anju K., editor QC718.P63 2017 530.4'4 C2017-904218-1 C2017-904219-X Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Raneesh, B., 1986- editor. | Kalarikkal, Nandakumar, editor. | James, Jemy, editor| Nair, Anju K., editor. Title: Plasma and fusion science : from fundamental research to technological applications / editors, B. Raneesh, PhD, Nandakumar Kalarikkal, PhD, Jemy James and Anju K. Nair Description: Oakville, ON ; Waretown, NJ : Apple Academic Press, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017027546 (print) | LCCN 2017030738 (ebook) | ISBN 781315365947 (ebook) | ISBN 9781771884532 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 1771884533 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 1315365944 (eBook) Subjects: LCSH: Plasma (Ionized gases) | Nuclear fusion. 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For information about Apple Academic Press products, visit our website at www.appleacademicpress.com and the CRC Press website at www.crcpress.com CONTENTS About the Editors.........................................................................................ix List of Contributors .....................................................................................xi List of Abbreviations ................................................................................xvii Preface ......................................................................................................xxi PART I: BASIC PLASMA .................................................................................1 1. Plasma Treatment of Powder and Granulates .........................................3 Petr Špatenka, Taťana Vacková, and Zdeňka Jeníková 2. Plasma Dynamical Devices: Review of Fundamental Results and Applications .......................................................................................17 Alexey Goncharov 3. Conceptual Design of a Permanent Ring Magnet-Based Helicon Plasma Source ............................................................................31 Arun Pandey, Dass Sudhir, M. Bandyopadhyay, and A. Chakraborty 4. Solitary Wave Solutions of Modified Kadomstev-Petviashivili Equation for Hot Adiabatic Dusty Plasma Having Non-Thermal Ions with Trapped Electrons ...........................................47 Apul Narayan Dev, Rajesh Subedi, and Jnanjyoti Sarma 5. Global Transition from Drift Wave Dominated Regimes to Multi-Instability Plasma Dynamics and Simultaneous Formation of a Radial Transport Barrier ..............................................67 Saikat Chakraborty Thakur, Christian Brandt, and George R. Tynan 6. Magnetic Drift and Its Effect on Cross-Field Diffusion Process ..........93 P. Hazarika, B. K. Das, M. Chakraborty, and M. Bandyopadhyay 7. On the Effect of Base Pressure upon Plasma Containment ...............109 G. Sahoo, R. Paikaray, S. Samantaray, P. S. Das, J. Ghosh, and A. Sanyasi vi Contents 8. Ion-Acoustic Dressed Solitons in Electron-Positron-Ion Plasma with Nonisothermal Electrons .................................................123 Parveen Bala and Tarsem Singh Gill 9. Arbitrary Amplitude Kinetic Alfvén Solitary Waves in a Plasma with Two-Electron Temperatures ............................................143 Latika Kalita 10. Nonlinear Dust Kinetic Alfvén Waves in a Dust–Ion Plasma with Ions Following q-Non-Extensive Velocity Distribution ..............159 M. K. Ahmed and O. P. Sah 11. Study Generation of Pulsed High Current with Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor ............................................................................177 Pankaj Deb and Anurag Shyam 12. Effect of Radio Frequency Power on Magnetron Sputtered TiO 2 Thin Films ...............................................................................................185 R. Satheesh, S. Sankar, and K. G. Gopchandran PART II: SPACE AND ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA ...................................203 13. Stability of Kinetic Alfvén Wave (KAW) in a Cometary Plasma with Streaming Electrons and Protons .................................................205 G. Sreekala, Sijo Sebastian, Manesh Michael, E. Savithri Devi, C. P. Anilkumar, and Chandu Venugopal 14. External Magnetic Field Effect on Absorption of Surface Plasma Waves by Metal Nano-Particles ............................................................219 Deepika, Prashant Chauhan, Anshu Varshney, D. B. Singh, and Vivek Sajal 15. Plasma Waves Beyond the Solar System ..............................................231 Vipin K. Yadav and Anil Bhardwaj 16. Jeans Instability of a Self-Graviatating Viscous Molecular Cloud Under the Influence of Finite Electron Inertia, Hall Effect, Fine Dust Particles, and Rotation .........................................................243 D. L. Sutar and R. K. Pensia PART III: NUCLEAR FUSION ....................................................................265 17. Structural Fabrication: Study of Infrastructure Facilities Required to Convert Concept to Reality ..............................................267 Gautam R. Vadolia Contents vii 18. DAC-Controlled Voltage Variable RF Attenuator for Generating RF Pulses of Different Shapes and Amplitudes for ICRH System ....................................................................................285 Manoj Singh, H. M. Jadav, Ramesh Joshi, Sunil Kumar, Y. S. S. Srinivas, S. V. Kulkarni, and RF-ICRH Group 19. Investigation of the Effect of Thermal Cycle on SS/CRZ Brazed Joint Sample ..............................................................................307 K. P. Singh, Alpesh Patel, Kedar Bhope, S. Belsare, Nikunj Patel, Prakash Mokaria, and S. S. Khirwadkar 20. Design and Test Results of a 200 kV, 15 mA High Voltage DC Test Generator ........................................................................................321 S. Amal, Urmil M. Thaker, Kumar Saurabh, and Ujjwal K. Baruah 21. Design, Development, and Testing of Water-Based Co-Axial Blumlein Pulse Generator .....................................................................339 Sanjay Singh, S. P. Nayak, Ashutosh Jaiswar, T. C. Kaushik, and Satish C. Gupta 22. Optimization of MgB2-Brass Joint Resistance for SST-1 Superconducting Magnet Current Leads ............................................347 Upendra Prasad, V. L. Tanna, and S. Pradhan 23. Studies on Effect of Gaseous Quenching Media on Performance of Electrically Exploded Foils ...............................................................359 S. P. Nayak, Ankur Chowdhury, M. D. Kale, T. C. Kaushik, and Satish C. Gupta PART IV: LASER PLASMA AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION OF PLASMA ..............................................................371 24. Particle Acceleration by Whistler Pulse in High Density Plasma ..............................................................................373 Punit Kumar, Abhisek Kumar Singh, and Shiv Singh 25. Generation of Terahertz Radiations by Flat Top Laser Pulses in Modulated Density Plasmas ..............................................................385 Divya Singh and Hitendra K. Malik 26. Surface Modification of High Density Polyethylene and Polycarbonate by Atmospheric Pressure Cold Argon/Oxygen Plasma Jet .....................................................................397 R. Shrestha, J. P. Gurung, A. Shrestha, and D. P. Subedi viii Contents 27. Optical Imaging of SST-1 Plasma .........................................................407 Manoj Kumar, Vishnu Chaudhary, Chestaparmar, Ajai Kumar, and SST-1 Team 28. Pulsed Electrical Exploding Wire for Production of Nanopowders ......................................................................................419 S. Borthakur, N. Talukdar, N. K. Neog, and T. K. Borthakur Index .........................................................................................................429 ABOUT THE EDITORS B. Raneesh, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Catholicate College, Pathanamthitta, Kerala, India Dr. B. Raneesh, PhD, is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Catholicate College, Pathanamthitta, Kerala, India. His cur- rent research interests include nanomultiferroics, metal oxide thin films, plasma science, and electron microscopy. He has published many research articles in peer-reviewed journals and co-edited one book. Dr. Raneesh has received his MSc and MPhil degrees from Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore, India, and PhD in physics from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. Nandakumar Kalarikkal, PhD Director, International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India Dr. Nandakumar Kalarikkal, PhD, is the Director of the International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology as well as an Associate Professor in the School of Pure and Applied Physics at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. His current research interests include synthesis, characterization, and applications of various nanostruc- tured materials, laser plasma, and phase transitions. He has published more than 80 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and has co-edited seven books. Dr. Kalarikkal obtained his Master’s degree in physics with a specialization in industrial physics and his PhD in Semiconductor Physics from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, India. He was a postdoctoral fellow at NIIST, Trivandrum, and later joined Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India.
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