Mathematics & Statistics Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Microinstabilities in high power electron cyclotron heating of plasmas 

      Miller, Andrew Gilbert (University of St Andrews, 1991) - Thesis
      Electron cyclotron resonance heating has been successfully used in a number of experiments, firstly to raise the plasma temperature and secondly to drive currents noninductively. Recently the microwaves in tokamak experiment ...

    • A gyrokinetic analysis of electron plasma waves at resonance in magnetic field gradients 

      McDonald, Darren (University of St Andrews, 1995) - Thesis
      To produce nuclear fusion in a Tokamak reactor requires the heating of a plasma to a temperature of the order of 10 keV. Electron cyclotron resonant heating (ECRH), in which the plasma is heated by radio waves in resonance ...

    • The theory of electron heating in collisonless plasma shock waves 

      Buckner, A. J. F. (University of St Andrews, 1993) - Thesis
      Equations are derived to describe the evolution of an electron distribution function under the action of electromagnetic instabilities in a non-uniform plasma using an extension of the quasilinear theory of Kennel and ...

    • Rotational flow in fluid dynamics 

      Murray, J. D. (James Dickson) (University of St Andrews, 1955) - Thesis
      The thesis is divided into four chapters. Chapter I gives a brief résumé of the state of rotational flow theory up to 1955. Chapter II contains a study of the constant shear flow past cylinders with various cross sections. ...

    • Mode conversion of plasma waves 

      Woods, Anna Maria (University of St Andrews, 1987) - Thesis
      Linear mode conversion processes are much studied in plasma physics because they determine the efficiency of any radio frequency heating scheme. Mode coupling model equations, extracted with varying degrees of rigour from ...