Bellan, Paul

Combined from CaltechAUTHORS

• Nicolov, André and Gudipati, Murthy S., et el. (2024) Phase and Morphology of Water-ice Grains Formed in a Cryogenic Laboratory Plasma; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 966; No. 1; 66; 10.3847/1538-4357/ad34b5
• Yoon, Young Dae and Bellan, Paul M., et el. (2023) Phase-space Analysis of Ordered and Disordered Nonthermal Ion Energization during Magnetic Reconnection; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 956; No. 2; 105; 10.3847/1538-4357/acf1f5
• Bellan, Paul M. (2023) Energetic electron tail production from binary encounters of discrete electrons and ions in a sub-Dreicer electric field; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 30; No. 10; 103901; 10.1063/5.0167004
• Nicolov, André and Bellan, Paul M. (2023) Modeling the energetic tail of a dusty plasma's electron energy distribution and its effect on dust grain charge and behavior; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 30; No. 8; 083704; 10.1063/5.0145209
• Hirabayashi, M. and Hartzell, C. M., et el. (2023) Electrostatic dust remediation for future exploration of the Moon; Acta Astronautica; Vol. 207; 392-402; 10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.03.005
• Zhang, Yang and Pree, Seth, et el. (2023) Generation of laboratory nanoflares from multiple braided plasma loops; Nature Astronomy; Vol. 7; No. 6; 655-661; 10.1038/s41550-023-01941-x
• Hartzell, Christine M. and Bellan, Paul, et el. (2023) Payload concepts for investigations of electrostatic dust motion on the lunar surface; Acta Astronautica; Vol. 207; 89-105; 10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.02.032
• Zhou, Yi and Bellan, Paul M. (2023) Two-stream instability with a growth rate insensitive to collisions in a dissipative plasma jet; 10.48550/arXiv.2304.06814
• Zhou, Yi and Bellan, Paul M. (2023) Two-stream instability with a growth rate insensitive to collisions in a dissipative plasma jet; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 30; No. 5; Art. No. 052101; 10.1063/5.0146806
• Zhou, Yi and Pree, Seth, et el. (2023) Imaging suprathermal x-rays from a laboratory plasma jet using PIN-diode-based and scintillator-based 1D pinhole/coded aperture cameras; Review of Scientific Instruments; Vol. 94; No. 1; Art. No. 013504; 10.1063/5.0122760
• Falato, Michael J. and Wolfe, Bradley T., et el. (2022) Plasma image classification using cosine similarity constrained convolutional neural network; Journal of Plasma Physics; Vol. 88; No. 6; Art. No. 895880603; 10.1017/s0022377822000940
• Bellan, Paul M. (2022) Mechanism for the Efficient Homogeneous Nucleation of Ice in a Weakly Ionized, Ultracold Plasma; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 936; No. 1; Art. No. 52; 10.3847/1538-4357/ac85bd
• Zhang, Yang and Bellan, Paul M. (2022) Neutral-charged-particle Collisions as the Mechanism for Accretion Disk Angular Momentum Transport; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 930; No. 2; Art. No. 167; 10.3847/1538-4357/ac62d5
• Bellan, P. M. (2021) Large pitch-angle scattering by a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave; ISBN 978-1-6654-1386-2; 2021 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA); 342; 10.1109/iceaa52647.2021.9539815
• Yoon, Young Dae and Bellan, Paul M. (2021) How Hall electric fields intrinsically chaotize and heat ions during collisionless magnetic reconnection; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 28; No. 2; Art. No. 022113; 10.1063/5.0040374
• Bellan, P. M. (2020) Why Interstellar Ice Dust Grains Should Be Elongated; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 905; No. 2; Art. No. 96; 10.3847/1538-4357/abc55b
• Bellan, Paul M. (2020) Why Interstellar Ice Dust Grains Should be Elongated; ISBN 978-1-7281-5307-0; 2020 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS); 538; 10.1109/icops37625.2020.9717577
• Bellan, Paul M. (2020) Caltech lab experiments and the insights they provide into solar corona phenomena; Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics; Vol. 125; No. 8; Art. No. e2020JA028139; 10.1029/2020ja028139
• Marshall, R. S. and Bellan, P. M. (2020) Laser-induced fluorescence measurement of very slow neutral flows in a dusty plasma experiment; Review of Scientific Instruments; Vol. 91; No. 6; Art. No. 063504; 10.1063/5.0006684
• Yoon, Young Dae and Bellan, Paul M. (2020) Nondiffusive Pitch-Angle Scattering of a Distribution of Energetic Particles by Coherent Whistler Waves; Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics; Vol. 125; No. 6; Art. No. e2020JA027796; 10.1029/2020ja027796
• Wongwaitayakornkul, Pakorn and Li, Hui, et el. (2020) 3D Numerical Simulation of Kink-driven Rayleigh–Taylor Instability Leading to Fast Magnetic Reconnection; Astrophysical Journal Letters; Vol. 895; No. 1; Art. No. L7; 10.3847/2041-8213/ab8e35
• Zhang, Yang and Wongwaitayakornkul, Pakorn, et el. (2020) Magnetic Rayleigh–Taylor Instability in an Experiment Simulating a Solar Loop; Astrophysical Journal Letters; Vol. 889; No. 2; Art. No. L32; 10.3847/2041-8213/ab6b2d
• Seo, Byonghoon and Wongwaitayakornkul, Pakorn, et el. (2020) Determination of a macro- to micro-scale progression leading to a magnetized plasma disruption; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 27; No. 2; Art. No. 022109; 10.1063/1.5140348
• Bellan, P. M. (2020) Analytic Model for the Time-dependent Electromagnetic Field of an Astrophysical Jet; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 888; No. 2; Art. no. 69; 10.3847/1538-4357/ab5f0d
• Yoon, Young Dae and Bellan, Paul M. (2019) Kinetic Verification of the Stochastic Ion Heating Mechanism in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection; Astrophysical Journal Letters; Vol. 887; No. 2; Art. No. L29; 10.3847/2041-8213/ab5b0a
• Yoon, Young Dae and Bellan, Paul M. (2019) The electron canonical battery effect in magnetic reconnection: Completion of the electron canonical vorticity framework; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 26; No. 10; Art. No. 100702; 10.1063/1.5122225
• Bellan, Paul and Grabbe, Crockett L., et el. (2019) Proceedings of the Third Topical Conference on Radio Frequency Plasma Heating: held at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, January 11-13, 1978
• Haw, Magnus A. and Seo, Byonghoon, et el. (2019) Laboratory measurement of large‐amplitude whistler pulses generated by fast magnetic reconnection; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 46; No. 13; 7105-7112; 10.1029/2019GL082621
• Savin, Daniel Wolf and Babb, James F., et el. (2019) Perspectives on Astrophysics Based on Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO) Techniques; 10.48550/arXiv.1811.06157
• Wongwaitayakornkul, Pakorn and Haw, Magnus A., et el. (2019) Magnetically Induced Current Piston for Generating Extreme-ultraviolet Fronts in the Solar Corona; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 874; No. 2; Art. No. 137; 10.3847/1538-4357/ab09f2
• Marshall, R. S. and Bellan, P. M. (2019) Acceleration of charged particles to extremely large energies by a sub-Dreicer electric field; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 26; No. 4; Art. No. 042102; 10.1063/1.5081716
• Yoon, Young Dae and Bellan, Paul M. (2018) Fast Ion Heating in Transient Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection via an Intrinsic Stochastic Mechanism; Astrophysical Journal Letters; Vol. 868; No. 2; Art. No. L31; 10.3847/2041-8213/aaf0a3
• Seo, Byonghoon and Bellan, Paul M. (2018) Experimental investigation of the compression and heating of an MHD-driven jet impacting a target cloud; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 25; No. 11; Art. No. 112703; 10.1063/1.5045678
• Marshall, R. S. and Flynn, M. J., et el. (2018) Hard x-ray bursts observed in association with Rayleigh-Taylor instigated current disruption in a solar-relevant lab experiment; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 25; No. 11; Art. No. 112101; 10.1063/1.5054927
• Bellan, P. M. (2018) Experiments relevant to astrophysical jets; Journal of Plasma Physics; Vol. 84; No. 5; Art. No. 755840501; 10.1017/s002237781800079x
• Haw, Magnus A. and Wongwaitayakornkul, Pakorn, et el. (2018) Reverse Current Model for Coronal Mass Ejection Cavity Formation; Astrophysical Journal Letters; Vol. 862; No. 2; Art. No. L15; 10.3847/2041-8213/aad33c
• Yoon, Young Dae and Bellan, Paul M. (2018) An intuitive two-fluid picture of spontaneous 2D collisionless magnetic reconnection and whistler wave generation; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 25; No. 5; Art. No. 055704; 10.1063/1.5016345
• Bellan, Paul M. (2018) Experiments and models of MHD jets and their relevance to astrophysics and solar physics; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 25; No. 5; Art. No. 055601; 10.1063/1.5009571
• Bellan, Paul M. (2018) Model for how an accretion disk drives astrophysical jets and sheds angular momentum; Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion; Vol. 60; No. 1; Art. No. 014006; 10.1088/1361-6587/aa85f9
• Seo, Byonghoon and Bellan, Paul M. (2017) Spatially translatable optical fiber-coupled heterodyne interferometer; Review of Scientific Instruments; Vol. 88; No. 12; Art. No. 123504; 10.1063/1.5007070
• Wongwaitayakornkul, Pakorn and Haw, Magnus A., et el. (2017) Apex Dips of Experimental Flux Ropes: Helix or Cusp?; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 848; No. 2; Art. No. 89; 10.3847/1538-4357/aa8990
• Haw, Magnus A. and Bellan, Paul M. (2017) MHD collimation mechanism in arched flux ropes characterized using volumetric, time-dependent B-vector measurements; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 44; No. 19; 9525-9531; 10.1002/2017GL074505
• Yoon, Young Dae and Bellan, Paul M. (2017) A generalized two-fluid picture of non-driven collisionless reconnection and its relation to whistler waves; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 24; No. 5; Art. No. 052114; 10.1063/1.4982812
• Gershman, Daniel J. and F-Viñas, Adolfo, et el. (2017) Wave-particle energy exchange directly observed in a kinetic Alfvén-branch wave; Nature Communications; Vol. 8; Art. No. 14719; PMCID PMC5380972; 10.1038/ncomms14719
• Marshall, Ryan S. and Chai, Kil-Byoung, et el. (2017) Identification of Accretion as Grain Growth Mechanism in Astrophysically Relevant Water–Ice Dusty Plasma Experiment; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 837; No. 1; Art. No. 56; 10.3847/1538-4357/aa5d11
• Ha, Bao N. and Bellan, Paul M. (2016) Laboratory demonstration of slow-rise to fast-acceleration of arched magnetic flux ropes; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 43; No. 18; 9390-9396; 10.1002/2016GL069744
• Bellan, P. M. (2016) Revised Single-Spacecraft Method for Determining Wavevector k and Resolving Space-time Ambiguity; Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics; Vol. 121; No. 9; 8589-8599; 10.1002/2016JA022827
• Chaplin, Vernon H. and Bellan, Paul M. (2016) Emission and afterglow properties of an expanding RF plasma with nonuniform neutral gas density; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 23; No. 8; Art. No. 083506; 10.1063/1.4960326
• Bellan, P. M. (2016) Integrated accretion disk angular momentum removal and astrophysical jet acceleration mechanism; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Vol. 458; No. 4; 4400-4421; 10.1093/mnras/stw562
• Zhai, Xiang and Bellan, Paul M. (2016) A hybrid Rayleigh-Taylor-current-driven coupled instability in a magnetohydrodynamically collimated cylindrical plasma with lateral gravity; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 23; No. 3; Art. No. 032121; 10.1063/1.4943896
• Chai, Kil-Byoung and Zhai, Xiang, et el. (2016) Extreme ultra-violet burst, particle heating, and whistler wave emission in fast magnetic reconnection induced by kink-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 23; No. 3; Art. No. 032122; 10.1063/1.4944390
• Bellan, P. M. (2016) Orbits of magnetized charged particles in parabolic and inverse electrostatic potentials; Journal of Plasma Physics; Vol. 82; No. 1; Art. No. 615820101; 10.1017/S0022377816000064
• Chai, Kil-Byoung and Bellan, Paul M. (2016) Vortex motion of dust particles due to non-conservative ion drag force in a plasma; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 23; No. 2; Art. No. 023701; 10.1063/1.4941973
• Chaplin, Vernon H. and Bellan, Paul M. (2015) One-dimensional time-dependent fluid model of a very high density low-pressure inductively coupled plasma; Journal of Applied Physics; Vol. 118; No. 24; Art. No. 243303; 10.1063/1.4938490
• Bellan, P. M. and Zhai, X., et el. (2015) Complex astrophysical experiments relating to jets, solar loops, and water ice dusty plasma; Journal of Plasma Physics; Vol. 81; No. 5; Art. No. 495810502; 10.1017/S0022377815000604
• Chaplin, Vernon H. and Bellan, Paul M. (2015) Battery-powered pulsed high density inductively coupled plasma source for pre-ionization in laboratory astrophysics experiments; Review of Scientific Instruments; Vol. 86; No. 7; Art. No. 073506; 10.1063/1.4926544
• Chai, Kil-Byoung and Bellan, Paul M. (2015) Study on morphology and growth of water–ice grains spontaneously generated in a laboratory plasma; Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics; Vol. 127; 83-91; 10.1016/j.jastp.2014.07.012
• Chai, Kil-Byoung and Bellan, Paul M. (2015) Formation and Alignment of Elongated, Fractal-like Water-ice Grains in Extremely Cold, Weakly Ionized Plasma; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 802; No. 2; Art. No. 112; 10.1088/0004-637X/802/2/112
• Haw, Magnus A. and Bellan, Paul (2015) 1D fast coded aperture camera; Review of Scientific Instruments; Vol. 86; No. 4; Art. No. 043506; 10.1063/1.4917345
• Perkins, R. J. and Bellan, P. M. (2015) Orbit-averaged quantities, the classical Hellmann-Feynman theorem, and the magnetic flux enclosed by gyro-motion; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 22; No. 2; Art. No. 022108; 10.1063/1.4905635
• Bellan, Paul M. and Paccagnella, Roberto (2015) Magnetic axis safety factor of finite β spheromaks and transition from spheromaks to toroidal magnetic bubbles; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 22; No. 2; Art. No. 022513; 10.1063/1.4908553
• Bellan, Paul M. (2014) Fast, purely growing collisionless reconnection as an eigenfunction problem related to but not involving linear whistler waves; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 21; No. 10; Art. No. 102108; 10.1063/1.4897375
• Zhai, Xiang and Li, Hui, et el. (2014) Three-dimensional MHD Simulation of the Caltech Plasma Jet Experiment: First Results; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 791; No. 1; Art. No. 40; 10.1088/0004-637X/791/1/40
• Chai, Kil-Byoung and Bellan, Paul M. (2013) Spontaneous formation of nonspherical water ice grains in a plasma environment; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 40; No. 23; 6258-6263; 10.1002/2013GL058268
• Chai, Kil-Byoung and Bellan, Paul M. (2013) Extreme ultra-violet movie camera for imaging microsecond time scale magnetic reconnection; Review of Scientific Instruments; Vol. 84; No. 12; Art. No. 123504; 10.1063/1.4841915
• Bellan, P. M. (2013) Circular polarization of obliquely propagating whistler wave magnetic field; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 20; No. 8; Art. No. 082113; 10.1063/1.4817964
• Bellan, P. M. (2013) Reply to comment by R. L. Lysak on "Improved basis set for low frequency plasma waves"; Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics; Vol. 118; No. 7; 4435-4440; 10.1002/jgra.50389
• Chaplin, Vernon H. and Bellan, Paul M. (2013) Fast Ignitron Trigger Circuit Using Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors; IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science; Vol. 41; No. 4; 975-979; 10.1109/TPS.2013.2249113
• Bellan, P. M. (2013) Pitch angle scattering of an energetic magnetized particle by a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 20; No. 4; Art. No. 042117; 10.1063/1.4801055
• Shikama, T. and Bellan, P. M. (2013) Development of a polarization resolved spectroscopic diagnostic for measurements of the vector magnetic field in the Caltech coaxial magnetized plasma jet experiment; Review of Scientific Instruments; Vol. 84; No. 2; Art. No. 023507; 10.1063/1.4793403
• Bellan, P. M. (2012) Improved basis set for low frequency plasma waves; Journal of Geophysical Research A; Vol. 117; No. A12; Art. No. A12219; 10.1029/2012JA017856
• Stenson, E. V. and Bellan, P. M. (2012) Quantifying the dynamic evolution of individual arched magnetic flux tubes; Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion; Vol. 54; No. 12; Art. No. 124017; 10.1088/0741-3335/54/12/124017
• Zhai, Xiang and Bellan, Paul M. (2012) An earth-isolated optically coupled wideband high voltage probe powered by ambient light; Review of Scientific Instruments; Vol. 83; No. 10; Art. No. 104703; 10.1063/1.4757112
• Stenson, E. V. and Bellan, P. M. (2012) Magnetically Driven Flows in Arched Plasma Structures; Physical Review Letters; Vol. 109; No. 7; Art. No. 075001; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.075001
• Moser, Auna L. and Bellan, Paul M. (2012) Magnetic reconnection from a multiscale instability cascade; Nature; Vol. 482; No. 7385; 379-381; 10.1038/nature10827
• Moser, A. L. and Bellan, P. M. (2012) Observations of magnetic flux compression in jet impact experiments; Astrophysics and Space Science; Vol. 337; No. 2; 593-596; 10.1007/s10509-011-0860-1
• Bellan, P. M. (2011) Meta-equilibrium state of multi-species ambipolar diffusion and its relevance to polar mesopheric summer echoes; Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics; Vol. 73; No. 14-15; 2166-2175; 10.1016/j.jastp.2010.11.015
• Perkins, Rory J. and Bellan, Paul M. (2010) Wheels within Wheels: Hamiltonian Dynamics as a Hierarchy of Action Variables; Physical Review Letters; Vol. 105; No. 12; Art. No. 124301; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.124301
• Bellan, P. M. (2010) Comment on comment by Markus Rapp and Franz-Josef Lübken on "Ice iron/sodium film as cause for high noctilucent cloud radar reflectivity"; Journal of Geophysical Research D; Vol. 115; Art. No. D13206; 10.1029/2009JD013245
• Bellan, P. M. and Kumar, D., et el. (2010) Laboratory simulations of astrophysical jets and solar coronal loops: new results; ISBN 978-0-7354-0787-9; Plasmas in the laboratory and in the universe : interactions, patterns, and turbulence; 156-163; 10.1063/1.3460119
• Yun, Gunsu S. and Bellan, Paul M. (2010) Plasma tubes becoming collimated as a result of magnetohydrodynamic pumping; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 17; No. 6; Art. No. 062108; 10.1063/1.3437075
• Kumar, Deepak and Moser, Auna L., et el. (2010) Energy Efficiency Analysis of the Discharge Circuit of Caltech Spheromak Experiment; IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science; Vol. 38; No. 1; 47-52; 10.1109/TPS.2009.2034744
• Kumar, Deepak and Bellan, Paul M. (2009) Nonequilibrium Alfvénic Plasma Jets Associated with Spheromak Formation; Physical Review Letters; Vol. 103; No. 10; Art. No. 105003; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.105003
• Bellan, P. M. and Livio, M., et el. (2009) Astrophysical jets: observations, numerical simulations, and laboratory experiments; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 16; No. 4; Art. No.041005; 10.1063/1.3101812
• Bellan, P. M. (2008) Dust-driven Dynamos in Accretion Disks; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 687; No. 1; 311-339; 10.1086/591244
• Bellan, P. M. (2008) Ice iron/sodium film as cause for high noctilucent cloud radar reflectivity; Journal of Geophysical Research D; Vol. 113; Art. No. D16215; 10.1029/2008JD009927
• Stenson, Eve V. and Bellan, Paul M. (2008) Dual-Species Plasmas Illustrate MHD Flows; IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science; Vol. 36; No. 4, Par; 1206-1207; 10.1109/TPS.2008.927095
• Bellan, P. M. (2008) Enrichment of the dust-to-gas mass ratio in Bondi/Jeans accretion/cloud systems due to unequal changes in dust and gas incoming velocities; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 678; No. 2; 1099-1108; 10.1086/533483
• Bellan, P. M. (2007) Consideration of the relationship between Kepler and cyclotron dynamics leading to prediction of a nonmagnetohydrodynamic gravity-driven Hamiltonian dynamo; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 14; No. 12; Art. No. 122901; 10.1063/1.2815791
• Bellan, P. M. (2007) Laboratory investigations of space-relevant, self-organizing MHD plasmas; ISBN 978-0-7354-0443-4; Turbulence and Nonlinear Processes in Astrophysical Plasmas: 6th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, Oahu, Hawaii, 16-22 March 2007; 359-368; 10.1063/1.2778986
• Bellan, P. M. and You, S., et el. (2007) Measurements of Plasma Jets and Collimated Flux Tubes that are the Precursors of Spheromak Self-organization; Journal of Fusion Energy; Vol. 26; No. 1-2; 25-29; 10.1007/s10894-006-9048-z
• Bellan, P. M. (2007) Simple system for locating ground loops; Review of Scientific Instruments; Vol. 78; No. 6; Art. No. 065104; 10.1063/1.2745242
• Tripathi, S. K. P. and Bellan, P. M., et el. (2007) Observation of Kinetic Plasma Jets in a Coronal-Loop Simulation Experiment; Physical Review Letters; Vol. 98; No. 13; Art. No. 135002; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.135002
• Yun, Gunsu S. and You, Setthivoine, et el. (2007) Large density amplification measured on jets ejected from a magnetized plasma gun; Nuclear Fusion; Vol. 47; No. 3; 181-188; 10.1088/0029-5515/47/3/003
• Bellan, P. M. and You, S., et el. (2006) Identification of the Sequence of Steps Intrinsic to Spheromak Formation; ISBN 978-0-7354-0375-8; 16th IAEA Technical Meeting on Research using Small Fusion Devices AND XI Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics, Mexico City, Mexico, 30 November - 9 December 2005; 47-52; 10.1063/1.2405901
• Kumar, Deepak and Bellan, Paul M. (2006) Heterodyne interferometer with unequal path lengths; Review of Scientific Instruments; Vol. 77; No. 8; Art. No. 083503; 10.1063/1.2336769
• Romero-Talamás, C. A. and Holcomb, C., et el. (2006) Spheromak formation and sustainment studies at the sustained spheromak physics experiment using high-speed imaging and magnetic diagnostics; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 13; No. 2; Art. No. 022502; 10.1063/1.2140682
• You, S. and Yun, G. S., et el. (2005) Dynamic and Stagnating Plasma Flow Leading to Magnetic-Flux-Tube Collimation; Physical Review Letters; Vol. 95; No. 4; Art. No. 045002; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.045002
• Bellan, Paul M. and You, Setthivoine, et el. (2005) Simulating Astrophysical Jets in Laboratory Experiments; Astrophysics and Space Science; Vol. 298; No. 1-2; 203-209; 10.1007/s10509-005-3933-1
• Bellan, P. M. (2005) Miniconference on astrophysical jets; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 12; No. 5; Art. No. 058301; 10.1063/1.1900563
• Hsu, S. C. and Bellan, P. M. (2005) On the jets, kinks, and spheromaks formed by a planar magnetized coaxial gun; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 12; No. 3; Art. No. 032103; 10.1063/1.1850921
• Romero-Talamás, C. A. and Bellan, P. M., et el. (2004) Multielement magnetic probe using commercial chip inductors; Review of Scientific Instruments; Vol. 75; No. 8; 2664-2667; 10.1063/1.1771483
• Bellan, P. M. (2004) A model for the condensation of a dusty plasma; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 11; No. 7; 3368-3379; 10.1063/1.1740773
• Bellan, P. M. (2004) A model for the condensation of a dusty plasma; ISBN 0-7803-8334-6; The 31st IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, 2004. ICOPS 2004. IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts; 118; 10.1109/PLASMA.2004.1339618
• Hansen, J. F. and Tripathi, S. K. P., et el. (2004) Co- and counter-helicity interaction between two adjacent laboratory prominences; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 11; No. 6; 3177-3185; 10.1063/1.1724831
• Bellan, P. M. (2004) A microscopic, mechanical derivation of the adiabatic gas relation; American Journal of Physics; Vol. 72; No. 5; 679-682; 10.1119/1.1629088
• Bellan, P. M. and Hsu, S. C., et el. (2004) Simulating Solar and Astrophysical Plasmas in Laboratory Experiments and New Models Motivated by these Experiments; ISBN 0-7354-0176-4; Plasmas in the laboratory and in the universe: new insights and new challenges; 425-430; 10.1063/1.1718492
• Hsu, S. C. and Bellan, P. M. (2003) Experimental Identification of the Kink Instability as a Poloidal Flux Amplification Mechanism for Coaxial Gun Spheromak Formation; Physical Review Letters; Vol. 90; No. 21; Art. No. 215002; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.215002
• Bellan, P. M. (2003) Why current-carrying magnetic flux tubes gobble up plasma and become thin as a result; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 10; No. 5; 1999-2008; 10.1063/1.1558275
• Bellan, P. M. (2003) Why helicity injection causes coronal flux tubes to develop an axially invariant cross-section; Advances in Space Research; Vol. 32; No. 10; 1923-1929; 10.1016/S0273-1177(03)90627-2
• Bellan, P. M. (2002) Thermal instability of electrolytic capacitor bank used for gas puff valve; Review of Scientific Instruments; Vol. 73; No. 8; 2900-2905; 10.1063/1.1488677
• Hsu, S. C. and Bellan, P. M. (2002) A laboratory plasma experiment for studying magnetic dynamics of accretion discs and jets; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Vol. 334; No. 2; 257-261; 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05422.x
• Bellan, P. M. (2002) Generalization of cylindrical spheromak solution to finite beta and large reversed shear; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 9; No. 7; 3050-3056; 10.1063/1.1482071
• Hsu, S. C. and Bellan, P. M. (2002) Study of magnetic helicity injection via plasma imaging using a high-speed digital camera; IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science; Vol. 30; No. 1, Par; 10-11; 10.1109/TPS.2002.1003898
• Bellan, P. M. and Yee, J., et el. (2001) Spheromaks, solar prominences, and Alfvén instability of current sheets; Earth, Planets and Space; Vol. 53; No. 6; 495-499; 10.1186/BF03353261
• Bellan, P. M. (2001) Alfven wave instability of current sheets in force-free plasmas: comparison to ion acoustic instability; Advances in Space Research; Vol. 28; No. 5; 729-739; 10.1016/S0273-1177(01)00509-9
• Yee, J. and Bellan, P. M. (2000) Taylor relaxation and lambda decay of unbounded, freely expanding spheromaks; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 7; No. 9; 3625-3640; 10.1063/1.1287137
• Bellan, P. M. (1999) Alfvén-Wave Instability of Current Sheets in Force-Free Collisionless Plasmas; Physical Review Letters; Vol. 83; No. 23; 4768-4771; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.4768
• Chu, M. S. and Jensen, T. H., et el. (1999) General Taylor configuration expansion revisited; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 6; No. 5; 1495-1499; 10.1063/1.873401
• Bellan, P. M. (1998) Collisionless reconnection using Alfvén wave radiation resistance; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 5; No. 9; 3081-3088; 10.1063/1.873034
• Bellan, P. M. and Hansen, J. F. (1998) Laboratory simulations of solar prominence eruptions; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 5; No. 5; 1991-2000; 10.1063/1.872870
• Yee, J. and Bellan, P. M. (1998) Effects of CT injector acceleration electrode configuration on tokamak penetration; Nuclear Fusion; Vol. 38; No. 5; 711-721
• Sanders, S. J. and Stern, R. A., et el. (1998) Real-time phase-selective data acquisition system for measurement of wave phenomena in pulsed plasma discharges; Review of Scientific Instruments; Vol. 69; No. 5; 2027-2031; 10.1063/1.1148893
• Bellan, P. M. and Stasiewicz, K. (1998) Fine-scale cavitation of ionospheric plasma caused by inertial Alfvén wave ponderomotive force; Physical Review Letters; Vol. 80; No. 16; 3523-3526; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.3523
• Sanders, S. J. and Bellan, P. M., et el. (1998) Observations of fast anisotropic ion heating, ion cooling, and ion recycling in large-amplitude drift waves; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 5; No. 3; 716-728; 10.1063/1.872758
• Bellan, P. M. (1997) An Effective Numerical Method for Linear Mode Conversion Problems; Journal of Computational Physics; Vol. 136; No. 2; 654-659; 10.1006/jcph.1997.5792
• Bellan, P. M. (1996) New model for ULF Pc5 pulsations: Alfvén cones; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 23; No. 14; 1717-1720; 10.1029/96gl01735
• Bellan, P. M. (1996) Comment on "On the Alfvén resonance and its existence" [Phys. Plasmas 2, 340 (1995)]; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 3; No. 1; 435-436; 10.1063/1.871819
• Bellan, P. M. (1995) Response to comments on "Alfvén 'resonance' reconsidered: Exact equations for wave propagation across a cold inhomogeneous plasma"; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 2; No. 9; 3552-3556; 10.1063/1.871140
• Bailey, A. D., III and Bellan, P. M., et el. (1995) Poincaré maps define topography of Vlasov distribution functions consistent with stochastic dynamics; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 2; No. 8; 2963-2969; 10.1063/1.871194
• Loewenhardt, P. K. and Brown, M. R., et el. (1995) Performance characterization of the Caltech compact torus injector; Review of Scientific Instruments; Vol. 66; No. 2; 1050-1055; 10.1063/1.1146044
• Bellan, P. M. (1994) Alfvén 'resonance' reconsidered: Exact equations for wave propagation across a cold inhomogeneous plasma; Physics of Plasmas; Vol. 1; No. 11; 3523-3541; 10.1063/1.870888
• Sato, A. H. and Yee, J., et el. (1993) A quick-retrieval high-speed digital framing camera; Review of Scientific Instruments; Vol. 64; No. 12; 3542-3547; 10.1063/1.1144281
• Bailey, A.D., III and Stern, R. A., et el. (1993) Measurement of coherent drift-wave ion-fluid velocity field when ion dynamics are stochastic; Physical Review Letters; Vol. 71; No. 19; 3123-3126; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.3123
• Kirkwood, R. K. and Capewell, D. L., et el. (1993) Creating poloidal flux in a tokamak plasma with low frequency; Physics Letters A; Vol. 180; No. 3; 269-274; 10.1016/0375-9601(93)90709-9
• Bellan, P. M. (1993) Conservation of canonical circulation and its relation to finite Hall term magnetohydrodynamics; Physics of Fluids B; Vol. 5; No. 7; 1955-1961; 10.1063/1.860783
• Bellan, P. M. (1993) Transport inferred from consideration of particle orbits in drift turbulence; Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion; Vol. 35; No. 2; 169-178
• Bellan, P. M. (1992) Vorticity model of flow driven by purely poloidal currents; Physical Review Letters; Vol. 69; No. 24; 3515-3518; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.3515
• Bellan, Paul M. and Higley, Jay W. (1992) Magnetic suppression of arc blowout in a model arc furnace; IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science; Vol. 20; No. 6; 1026-1035; 10.1109/27.199568
• Brown, M. R. and Bellan, P. M. (1992) Efficiency and scaling of current drive and refuelling by spheromak injection into a tokamak; Nuclear Fusion; Vol. 32; No. 7; 1125-1137
• McChesney, J. M. and Bellan, P. M., et el. (1991) Observation of fast stochastic ion heating by drift waves; Physics of Fluids B; Vol. 3; No. 12; 3363-3378; 10.1063/1.859768
• Brown, M. R. and Bailey, A. D., III, et el. (1991) Characterization of a spheromak plasma gun: The effect of refractory electrode coatings; Journal of Applied Physics; Vol. 69; No. 9; 6302-6312; 10.1063/1.348828
• Brown, M. R. and Cutrer, D. M., et el. (1991) Motion and equilibrium of a spheromak in a toroidal flux conserver; Physics of Fluids B; Vol. 3; No. 5; 1198-1213; 10.1063/1.859813
• Bellan, P. M. and Schalit, M. A. (1991) Can useful toroidal current be driven by classical viscoresistive Alfvén waves?; Physics of Fluids B; Vol. 3; No. 2; 423-427; 10.1063/1.859883
• Lewis, H. Ralph and Bellan, Paul M. (1990) Physical constraints on the coefficients of Fourier expansions in cylindrical coordinates; Journal of Mathematical Physics; Vol. 31; No. 11; 2592-2596; 10.1063/1.529009
• Brown, M. R. and Bellan, P. M. (1990) Spheromak injection into a tokamak; Physics of Fluids B; Vol. 2; No. 6; 1306-1310; 10.1063/1.859546
• Brown, M. R. and Bellan, P. M. (1990) Current drive by spheromak injection into a tokamak; Physical Review Letters; Vol. 64; No. 18; 2144-2147; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.2144
• Schalit, M. A. and Bellan, P. M. (1989) Comments on "Plasma current drive by injection of photons with helicity" [Comm. Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion 12, 165 (1989)]; Physics of Fluids B; Vol. 1; No. 12; 2533-2534; 10.1063/1.859190
• Bellan, P. M. (1989) Rotamak confinement-power-current relationships and r.f. loading resistance; Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion; Vol. 31; No. 6; 879-894
• Bellan, P. M. (1989) Particle confinement in realistic 3D rotamak equilibria; Physical Review Letters; Vol. 62; No. 21; 2464-2467; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.2464
• Siegrist, K. and Brown, M. R., et el. (1989) Simple, high current LaB_6 cathode; Review of Scientific Instruments; Vol. 60; No. 5; 964-965; 10.1063/1.1140305
• Bellan, P. M. (1988) Helicity injection with moving vacuum–plasma boundary with arbitrary flux surfaces; Physics of Fluids; Vol. 31; No. 1; 215-216; 10.1063/1.866571
• McChesney, J. M. and Stern, R. A., et el. (1987) Observation of fast stochastic ion heating by drift waves; Physical Review Letters; Vol. 59; No. 13; 1436-1439; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.1436
• Bellan, P. M. (1987) Simple system for mapping magnetic field errors in tori; Review of Scientific Instruments; Vol. 58; No. 1; 148-149; 10.1063/1.1139664
• Bellan, P. M. (1986) Adverse Consequences of a Moving Vacuum-Plasma Boundary on Axisymmetric ac Helicity Injection; Physical Review Letters; Vol. 57; No. 19; 2383-2386; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.2383
• Bellan, P. M. and Schalit, M. A. (1986) Single beam, single detector diagnostic for plasma density profiles across a magnetic field gradient; Physics of Fluids; Vol. 29; No. 11; 3779-3784; 10.1063/1.865760
• Fredrickson, E. D. and Bellan, P. M. (1985) Investigation of finite beta modified drift wave in a tokamak plasma; Physics of Fluids; Vol. 28; No. 6; 1866-1876; 10.1063/1.864930
• Bellan, P. M. (1984) Physical model of current drive by ac helicity injection; Physics of Fluids; Vol. 27; No. 8; 2191-2192; 10.1063/1.864846
• Bellan, P. M. (1984) Improving the energy-transfer efficiency of opening switch tokamak Ohmic heating transformers; Review of Scientific Instruments; Vol. 55; No. 7; 1080-1083; 10.1063/1.1137886
• Bellan, P. M. (1983) Ferrite resonance cones; Journal of Applied Physics; Vol. 54; No. 6; 3620-3622; 10.1063/1.332401
• Bellan, P. M. (1983) Propagation of lower hybrid resonance cones in tokamaks; Physics of Fluids; Vol. 26; No. 3; 741-746; 10.1063/1.864217
• Bellan, P. M. (1983) Measurements of the Effect of Tokamak Magnetic Field Helicity on Lower Hybrid Resonance Cones; Physical Review Letters; Vol. 50; No. 3; 170-173; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.170
• Bellan, P. M. (1982) Scalings for a traveling mirror adiabatic magnetic compressor; Review of Scientific Instruments; Vol. 53; No. 8; 1214-1220; 10.1063/1.1137136
• Bellan, P. M. (1981) Traveling mirror compressor delay line with nonconstant capacitance; Physics of Fluids; Vol. 24; No. 11; 2128-2129; 10.1063/1.863284
• Bellan, Paul M. (1981) Randomly gapped wall stabilization for time-dependent magnetic confinement fields; Physics of Fluids; Vol. 24; No. 5; 947-955; 10.1063/1.863478
• Bellan, Paul M. (1980) Electromagnetic Interference Pattern of Resonance Cones in the Far Field; Physical Review Letters; Vol. 45; No. 17; 1407-1410; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.1407
• Bellan, Paul M. (1979) Spontaneous, Three-Dimensional, Constant-Energy Implosion of Magnetic Mirror Fields; Physical Review Letters; Vol. 43; No. 12; 858-861; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.43.858
• Wong, K. L. and Bellan, P. M. (1978) Enhancement of drift waves by localized lower hybrid waves; Physics of Fluids; Vol. 21; No. 5; 841-845; 10.1063/1.862303
• Bellan, P. M. and Wong, K. L. (1978) Effect of density fluctuations on lower hybrid resonance cone propagation; Physics of Fluids; Vol. 21; No. 4; 592-599; 10.1063/1.862267
• Wong, K. L. and Bellan, P., et el. (1978) Resonant Decay of Finite-Extent Cold-Electron Plasma Waves; Physical Review Letters; Vol. 40; No. 9; 554-557; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.40.554
• Bellan, P. M. (1977) Plasma ringing associated with pulsed resonance cones; Physics of Fluids; Vol. 20; No. 4; 649-653; 10.1063/1.861924
• Bellan, P. (1976) Resonance Cones below the Ion Cyclotron Frequency: Theory and Experiment; Physical Review Letters; Vol. 37; No. 14; 903-906; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.37.903
• Bellan, P. M. and Porkolab, Miklos (1976) Experimental studies of lower hybrid wave propagation; Physics of Fluids; Vol. 19; No. 7; 995-1006; 10.1063/1.861595
• Bellan, P. and Porkolab, M. (1975) Excitation of Lower-Hybrid Waves by a Slow-Wave Structure; Physical Review Letters; Vol. 34; No. 3; 124-127; 10.1103/PhysRevLett.34.124
• Bellan, P. M. and Porkolab, M. (1974) Propagation and mode conversion of lower-hybrid waves generated by a finite source; Physics of Fluids; Vol. 17; No. 8; 1592-1601; 10.1063/1.1694938