Physics · CUI Lahore

From the inside of a fusion reactor to the wind off the Sun and the clouds where stars are born, we study matter in its fourth state.

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Three plasmas

We work on tokamak confinement, on the solar wind's push against Earth's magnetic field, and on the Jeans instability that lets a gas cloud collapse into a star.

The group poster (PDF)
Tokamaks
Confinement, instabilities and diagnostics
Solar wind
Linear and nonlinear waves near Earth
Star birth
Jeans instability in astrophysical plasma
Theory + lab
Simulation, data analysis and experiment

Fusion

  • Tokamak confinement
  • Instabilities in tokamaks
  • Plasma diagnostics
  • Tokamak geometries
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What we study

Every topic the group works on, filed by line of research. Point at one to see where that plasma lives; choose one to ask us about it.

  1. Tokamak confinementFusion
  2. Instabilities in tokamaksFusion
  3. Plasma diagnosticsFusion
  4. Tokamak geometriesFusion
  5. Laboratory plasmasFusion
  6. Data for fusion codesFusion
  7. ITER, MAST and JETFusion
  8. Solar wind and Earth's fieldSpace
  9. Linear wavesSpace
  10. Nonlinear wavesSpace
  11. Space-plasma instabilitiesSpace
  12. Coronal heatingSpace
  13. Drift wavesSpace
  14. Storms and communicationSpace
  15. Jeans instabilityStars
  16. Star formationStars
  17. Gravitational Jeans modesStars
  18. Astrophysical plasmasStars
  19. Numerical simulationMethod
  20. Spacecraft data analysisMethod
  21. Fusion science in PakistanMission
  22. Links with fusion labsMission

Where plasma lives

Plasma glowing inside the MAST spherical tokamak
Tokamak · Culham, UKVisible light · MAST · CC BY 2.0Photo: Eye Steel Film
Fisheye view of the tiled inner wall of the Alcator C-Mod tokamak
Vessel · MIT, USAFisheye view · Alcator C-Mod · CC BY 3.0Photo: Mike Garrett
Rendering of the JET tokamak inside its orange iron frame
Tokamak · Culham, UKCAD rendering · JET · CC BY 4.0Image: EUROfusion
A solar prominence lifting off the Sun with a coronal mass ejection
Eruption · The SunUltraviolet · Prominence · CC BY 2.0Image: NASA Goddard
Green aurora australis curving over Earth, seen from the space station
Aurora · Low orbit2010 · ISS Expedition 23 · PublicPhoto: ISS Expedition 23 crew
The Pillars of Creation in infrared: dark columns of gas among thousands of stars
Nebula · Eagle, M162015 · Hubble, infrared · CC BY 4.0NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team
Close crop of the metal tiles lining the inside wall of the Alcator C-Mod tokamak
First wall · MIT, USADetail · Wall tiles · CC BY 3.0Photo: Mike Garrett
Close crop of a pillar tip, where gas is collapsing into new stars
Pillar tip · Eagle, M16Detail · Jeans collapse · CC BY 4.0NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team

Join the group

If you are choosing an MS or PhD topic, plasma is a good place to look. It makes up most of the visible universe, and it is the fuel of every fusion reactor being built.

Our work runs on three lines. On tokamaks we ask why a confined plasma goes unstable and how to hold it in place. Near Earth we follow the solar wind as it pushes on the field that shields us.

Further out we study the Jeans instability, which decides when a cloud of gas becomes a star.

The work is theory and numerical simulation, checked against data from spacecraft and from laboratory plasma. We also want to grow Pakistan's fusion community, through students and through links with laboratories abroad.

Pick the line that interests you below and write to us.

Plasma Physics Research GroupDepartment of Physics, CUI Lahore

Which line interests you?
  • Provide high-quality data to the fusion community to help validate large-scale computer codes.
  • Find the stability mechanisms that keep a tokamak plasma confined.
Email the group about fusion

plasma.group@cuilahore.edu.pk

The group

Names are added from the department's faculty and student lists.

Faculty

Group leadFusionName to be added · tokamak confinement and stability
Faculty memberSpaceName to be added · solar wind waves and coronal heating
Faculty memberStarsName to be added · Jeans instability in astrophysical plasma

PhD scholars

PhD scholarFusionName to be added · topic to be added
PhD scholarSpaceName to be added · topic to be added

MS scholars

MS scholarStarsName to be added · topic to be added
MS scholarFusionName to be added · topic to be added

Publications are on the department's research page