The performance of both present and future tokamaks such as ITER can be greatly degraded or enhanced by small 3D magnetic perturbations. An important new tool for understanding 3D magnetic field effects in tokamaks is the Ideal Perturbed Equilibrium Code (IPEC), which computes 3D perturbed tokamak equilibria including plasma response effects such as poloidal harmonic coupling, shielding, and am...

Two-dimensional measurements of density fluctuations are obtained in the radial and poloidal plane of the DIII-D tokamak with the Beam Emission Spectroscopy ~BES! diagnostic system. The goals are to visualize the spatial structure and time evolution of turbulent eddies, as well as to obtain the 2D statistical properties of turbulence. The measurements are obtained with an array of localized BES...

In this paper, the analytical form of the quasilinear diffusion coefficients is modified from the Kennel-Engelmann diffusion coefficients to guarantee the positive definiteness of its bounce average in a toroidal geometry. By evaluating the parallel inhomogeneity of plasmas and magnetic fields in the trajectory integral, we can ensure the positive definiteness and help illuminate some non-reson...

In the core-accretion model, gas-giant planets form solid cores which then accrete gaseous envelopes. Tidal interactions with disk gas cause a core to undergo inward type-I migration in 10 to 10 years. Cores must form faster than this to survive. Giant planets clear a gap in the disk and undergo inward type-II migration in < 10 years if observed disk accretion rates apply to the disk as a whole...

The effect of optokinetic stimulation on the disturbed perception of body orientation in three patients with right brain damage and spatial neglect was examined. The patients were asked to direct a laser point to the position which they felt lay exactly "straight ahead" of their bodies' orientation. Without stimulation they localised the body's sagittal midplane markedly to the right of the obj...

We present kinematic measurements of the thick and thin disks in two edge-on galaxies. We have derived stellar rotation curves at and above the galaxies’ midplanes using Ca ii triplet features measured with the GMOS spectrograph on Gemini North. In one galaxy, FGC 1415, the kinematics above the plane show clear rotation that lags that of the midplane by ∼20-50%, similar to the behavior seen in ...

We have studied the effect of pressure and temperature on the location of the pivotal surface in a lipid inverse bicontinuous gyroid cubic phase (Q(G)(II)), described by the area at the pivotal surface (An), the volume between the pivotal surface and the bilayer midplane (Vn), and the molecular volume of the lipid (V). Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) was used to measure the swelling behavio...

We report observations of resolved C2H emission rings within the gas-rich protoplanetary disks of TWHya and DMTau using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array. In each case the emission ring is found to arise at the edge of the observable disk of millimeter-sized grains (pebbles) traced by submillimeter-wave continuum emission. In addition, we detect a C3H2 emission ring with an identical spatial...

This paper investigates nonlinear bending and buckling behaviours of composite plates characterized by a thickness variation. Layer interfaces are described as functions of inplane coordinates. Top and bottom surfaces of the plate are symmetric about the midplane and the plate could be considered as a flat surface in analysis along with thickness parameters which vary over the plate. The variab...