Strong electrostatic turbulence in magnetically confined plasmas is characterized by trapping or eddying of particle trajectories produced by the E × B stochastic drift. Trapping is shown to produce strong effects on test particles and on test modes by causing nonstandard trajectory statistics: non-Gaussian distribution, memory effects, and coherence. Trapped trajectories form quasi-coherent st...

In this paper, we adapted the Stranski-Krastanow (SK) mode to the heteroepitaxial growth of NWs and suggested three general growth modes (SK, island SK, and coherent SK) covering all phenomena observed from nanostructures epitaxially grown on single crystal substrates. A strain versus dislocation (SVD) model was also established to define these three modes. The SVD model analyzes the competitio...

In the Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) reversed-field pinch [Fusion Technol. 19, 13 1 ( 1991)] magnetic oscillations become stationary (locked) in the lab frame as a result of a process involving interactions between the modes, sawteeth, and field errors. Several helical modes become phase locked to each other to form a rotating localized disturbance, the disturbance locks to an impulsive field e...

We describe a method to extract from experimental data the important dynamical modes in spatiotemporal patterns in a system driven out of thermodynamic equilibrium. Using a novel optical technique for controlling fluid flow, we create an experimental ensemble of Rayleigh-Bénard convection patterns with nearby initial conditions close to the onset of secondary instability. An analysis of the ens...