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A Turbulence and Plasma Astrophysics Laboratory
A review of the diagnostics and analysis techniques used to study plasma turublence in the SSX wind tunnel. [pdf]
This paper shows that an spheromak relaxes into a helical state and that the measured helical pitch matches the prediction based on Taylor Relaxtion theory. [pdf]
Turbulent intermittency is observed to increase with higher injected magnetic helicity suggesting that the higher helicity states of the plasma allow for more reconnection sites and current layers. [pdf]
Magnetic fluctuations in the SSX wind tunnel are observed to have more power in the direction perpendicular to the mean magnetic field than parallel. Both temporal and spatial spectra indicate a faster than Kolmogorv transfer of energy in inertial scales. [pdf]
An initial report of turbulence metrics as measured in the SSX MHD wind tunnel including temporal spectra and intermittency. Comparisons to an MHD simulation made within the HiFi framework are also presented. [pdf]
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