Plasma and Fusion Science: From Fundamental Research to Technological Applications

469 Pages·2017·13.74 MB·English

by  B. Raneesh, Nandakumar Kalarikkal, Jemy James, Anju K. Nair

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
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Raneesh, PhD, Nandakumar Kalarikkal, PhD, Jemy James and Anju K. Nair
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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.