Plasma technology based on Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) has been widely demonstrated to be a novel active flow control method. In order to make the plasma flow control technology more practical, ...

This news release is available in Japanese. Katsumi Ida and colleagues at the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) and Shigeru Inagaki of ...

A new model for plasma flow within the sun provides novel explanations for sunspots, the 11-year sunspot cycle, solar magnetic reversals and other previously unexplained solar phenomena. For 400 years ...

A new computer model suggests the shifting speeds of plasma inside the sun could have shut off sunspots at the end of the most recent solar cycle. The model, described in the March 3 Nature, attempts ...

A Chinese-American collaboration has figured out how to run fusion reactors harder -- and more efficient at the same time. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

Electric (plasma) propulsion devices have been used for applications such as station-keeping and orbit transfer, in place of chemical rockets, because they provide a higher specific impulse. Detailed ...

Zap Energy’s FuZE-3 device has reached giga-pascal-level plasma pressures thanks to a novel design that independently tunes acceleration and compression. These early results suggest rapid progress ...