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Detaching plasma blobs with very similar properties to tokamaks are observed in the basic toroidal plasma experiment TORPEX [ A. Fasoli et al., Phys. Plasmas 13, 055902 (2006) ]. The blobs originate from the breaking of wave crests of a drift-interchange w ...
The unstable nature of kinematic waves, resulting from outburst floods on steep inclines, is investigated theoretically using the shallow water equations. A numerical experiment is designed in order to efficiently perform a stability analysis. By analysing ...
Dispersal is often viewed as a process on which the landscape has little effect. This is particularly apparent in populations’ genetic and ecological studies, where isolation by distance is generally tested using a Euclidean distance between populations. H ...
The three-dimensional (3-D) VMEC code has been modified to model an energetic species with a variant of a Bi-Maxwellian distribution function that satisfies the constraint B . del F-h = 0, and the 3-D TERPSICHORE stability code has been extended to investi ...
This thesis presents the development of models for the simulation and optimization of the design of a planar solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stack. Fuel cells produce electric power directly from a fuel by electrochemical reactions. The high efficiencies demo ...
Large area plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition of thin films such as silicon nitride or amorphous silicon is widely used for thin film transistor fabrication in the flat panel display industry. A numerical three-dimensional model to calculate the dep ...
We present the design, analysis and characterization of a polarization-independent tunable resonant grating filter. Polarization independence is achieved by setting the plane of incidence parallel to the grating grooves and optimizing the fill factor to ob ...
In this work we describe the vibroacoustic behavior of a novel concept of core for sandwich structures featuring auxetic characteristics, enhanced shear stiffhess and compressive strength compared to classical cellular cores in sandwich components for sand ...
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Using a global approach for solving an ion gyrokinetic model in three-dimensional geometry the linear stability and structure of ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) modes in the configuration of the stellarator Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) [G. Grieger , in Plasma Phy ...
Three-dimensional numerical simulations are performed to investigate the dynamic tensile properties of ceramics, using explicit dynamic FEM and cohesive element techniques. A micro-cracking model considering the stochastic distribution of internal defects ...