Velocity Field Estimation using Tomography in a Cylindrical Plasma

This article presents a new method, called extended Rotational Movement Analysis (e-RoMA), to estimate the velocity field of a cylindrical plasma from its two-dimensional images based on Fourier-Bessel function expansion. The proposed method is applied to tomography images of a plasma produced in a linear cylindrical device PANTA and succeeded in obtaining the two- dimensional velocity field. The first results suggest an issue to be investigated, that is, the presence of azimuthal asymmetry in the velocity field. (c) 2024 The Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research