| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L90699/01 |
| Title: |
THE FERROFLUID PLASMA: THE PLASMA PROPERTIES OF MAGNETO-RHEOLOGICAL FLUIDS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Diver, Professor DA |
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School of Physics and Astronomy |
| Organisation: |
University of Glasgow |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
15 June 1998 |
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14 November 2000 |
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111,330
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This highly original experimental programme has a simple strategy: the novel exploration of the magnetic liquid - edge plasma overlap. It embodies twin concepts: I. Simulating experimentally the behaviour of magnetofluid plasmas near magnetic or material boundaries by using ferrofluids; and II. Exploiting the mechanical coupling between ferrofluids and the external magnetic influences of (say) a real boundary plasma as a means of sensing and controlling unstable edge plasma behaviour. The programme under ( I ) will investigate the fundamental surface interface behaviour of a ferrofluid driven mechanically, and by externally applied magnetic fields, as a direct experimental analogy of the behaviour of magnetofluid 'skin' which is the plasma edge. The magnetic influence in the evolution of critically sheared flows and non-linear standing waves will be investigated, enabling an original detailed study of magnetofluid edge evolution, including splashing, wave-breaking and detached flows in X-point and other configurations. Strand (II) will determine directly the influence of typical plasma edge fields on ferrofluid deployed as a passive diagnostic, and as a viscous damping agent for plasma control.These imaginative applications promise great pains in inexpensive simulation, monitoring and passive control of edge plasmas, relevant to industrial and magnetic confinement processes.
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