ANU - Research School of Physics and Engineering

Position	Professor
Department(s)	Plasma Research Laboratories
Phone	50038^*
Email
Office	Le Couteur 1 10
Webpage	http://wwwrsphysse.anu.edu.au/~mgs112/

Research Interests

Waves, turbulence and nonlinear phenomena in fluids and plasma.

Applications: environmental physics, plasma confinement

Areas of Research:

Waves on the surface of fluids

Turbulent flows in thin layers

Phenomena in rotating fluids

Self-organization in turbulence

Turbulence in toroidal plasmas

Magnetic confinement of plasma

Available Student Projects

Phenomena in rotating fluids

Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters

Supervisor: Professor M Shats

Experiments with rotating fluids aim at better understanding of fundamental processes which determine the dynamics of planetary atmospheres and oceans. The presence of the Coriolis force leads to quasi-two-dimensional behaviour of the 3D flows making such a flow similar to magnetized plasma.

Physics of surface waves

Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters

Supervisor: Professor M Shats , Dr H Punzmann

Surface waves are studied in laboratory experiment. Waves are excited parametrically in vertically shaken containers. Laser and microwave scattering techniques are used to characterize chaotic wave fields.

Turbulence in thin fluid layers

Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters

Supervisor: Professor M Shats

Experimental studies of the electromagnetically forced turbulent flows in shallow fluid layers

Recent Publications

Punzmann Horst, Shats Michael, Xia Hua
Phase Randomization of Three-Wave Interactions in Capillary Waves
Physical Review Letters 103 (2009)

Xia Hua, Punzmann Horst, Falkovich Gregory, Shats Michael
Turbulence-Condensate Interaction in Two Dimensions
Physical Review Letters 101 (2008)

Fujisawa A., Ido T, Shimizu A., Okamura S, Matsuoka K, Iguchi H., Hamada Y, Nakano Y, Ohshima S, Itoh K, Shats Michael, Xia Hua
Experimental progress on zonal flow physics in toroidal plasmas
Nuclear Fusion 47 (2007)

Xia Hua, Shats Michael
Spectural transfer analysis in plasma
Frontiers in Turbulence and Coherent Structures: proceedings of the COSNet/CSIRO Workshop on Turbulence and Coherent Structures in Fluids Plasmas and Nonlinear Media (2007) ISBN:9789812703934

Shats Michael, Xia Hua, Punzmann Horst, Falkovich Gregory
Suppression of Turbulence by Self-Generated and Imposed Mean Flows
Physical Review Letters 99 (2007)

Shats Michael, Punzmann Horst
Turbulence and Coherent Structures in Fluids Plasmas and Nonlinear Media
Lecture Notes on Turbulence and Coherent Structures in Fluids Plasmas and Nonlinear Media (2006) ISBN:9812566988

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Areas of Research:

Waves on the surface of fluids Turbulent flows in thin layers Phenomena in rotating fluids Self-organization in turbulence Turbulence in toroidal plasmas Magnetic confinement of plasma

Waves on the surface of fluids

Waves on the surface of fluids

Turbulent flows in thin layers

Phenomena in rotating fluids

Self-organization in turbulence

Turbulence in toroidal plasmas

Magnetic confinement of plasma