Students are welcome to work on the following topics:
- Wave heating and turbulence inside the Tore Supra tokamak
- The density limit disuruptions and analysis of the fast imaging camera data
- Stationary vs. non-stationary turbulence in plasma and fusion devices
- Effect of height on the dynamics of liquid metals
- Rotational instabilities and feedback control in thin liquid metals subject to electromagnetic fields.
- Coherent structures and turbulence in electrolyte solutions submitted to a 2D electromagnetic forces
- Numerical simulation of two-dimensional turbulence:
- Hasegawa-Mima equation
- Hasegawa-Wakatani equation
- Modelling plasma turbulence for linear device
- Tw-phase fluid dynamcis and comparison to plasmas (in collaboration with Dr. M. Darwish)
- Pulsed Laser deposition:
- Theory and modelling of the plasma plume
- Experimental characterization of the plume by means of Langmuir probes
- Tungsten coating on ITER-relevant graphite and characterization