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Laboratory for Plasma and Fluid Dynamics

The construction of the Lebanese Linear Plasma Device [LLPD) started (check here for more details)

We are engaged in both experimental and theoretical aspects of research in plasma physics and fluid dynamics.

Areas of research include:

Turbulence in fluids;
Turbulence in fusion devices;
Disruptions and their mitigation in tokamaks;
Numerical simulation of turbulence;
Effects of wave heating on turbulence.

See this presentation summarizing our present activites

Latest News and events

Latest talk at the Electrical Engineering Department (click here for the PDF)
Check the presentation of Mervat Madi on the wave propagation in plasmas (click here for the PDF)
Paper submitted to Physics of Fluids with Loutfallah Moubarak (click here for PDF)
Visit of Rima Hajjar to IPP-Juelich (Germany) and CEA-Cadarache (France) (click here for PDF)
Visit to Cadarche France, see the presentation on turbulence affected by ICRH (click here for PDF in French)
Loutfallah Moubarak defended his MS thesis (click here for PDF)
Lamiss Zaidouny defended her MS thesis on motion in liquid metals (click here for PDF)
Farah Hariri defended her thesis numerical simulation of the two-dimensional turbulence (click here for PDF)
Reema Hajjar graduated on disruption mitigation in tokamaks by massive gas jets (click here for PDF)
Dinner at Karam's in downtown Beirut.
Ms. Rayyan Yassin from Illinois College visited for a summer internship

Faculty Member

Dr. Ghassan Antar

Professor

Physics

ga40@aub.edu.lb

Primary Office: Emile Bustani (Physics Bldg), 321

Extension: 4310

PhD News:

Farah Hariri, at the CEA-Cadarache, France
Lamiss Zaidouny, at Stuttgart Universitaet, Germany
Rima Hajjar, at the University of California San Diego, USA
Loutfallah Moubarak, accepted at Marseille University with CNRS scholarship

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