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Magnetic Correlation Studies: the Bryn Mawr Experiment and Simulaitons

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Abstract

We present spatial and temporal correlations of magnetic fluctuations to characterize the outer and inner scales of the magnetized plasma turbulence generated through the injection of helicity with a magnetized coaxial gun source into a flux conserving cylindrical wind-tunnel. Experimental results are shown and compared to resistive MHD simulations of an evolving magnetized plasma plume within a cylindrical wind-tunnel. The simulations run on the Bridges2 supercomputer using the Dedalus framework; an open-source and MPI-parallelized environment written in Python.

Presenters

  • Carlos A Cartagena-Sanchez

    Bryn Mawr College

Authors

  • Carlos A Cartagena-Sanchez

    Bryn Mawr College

  • David A Schaffner

    Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College, US

  • Joshua M Carlson

    Bryn Mawr College