Paul M. Bellan
Professor of Applied Physics
Research interests: experimental and theoretical plasma physics
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Professor Bellan focuses on experimental and theoretical plasma physics.
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Nicolov, André, Pree, Seth, and Bellan, Paul M. (2025) Dynamics of Fractal Ice Grains in Cryogenic Plasma, Physical Review Letters, 135, 195301
Zhang, Yang and Bellan, Paul M., (2025) Magnetic Double Helix, Physical Review Letters, 135, 055201
Bellan, Paul M. (2025) Solution of the wave equations for a cylindrical whistler duct, Physics of Plasmas, 32, 12210730, 103901
Kritikos, Efstratos, Goddard, William A., and Bellan, Paul M. (2025) Can electrostatic stresses affect charged water structures in weakly ionized plasmas, 32, 063702
Nicolov, André, Gudipati, Murthy S., and Bellan Paul M. . (2024) Phase and Morphology of Water-ice Grains Formed in a Cryogenic Laboratory Plasma Astrophysical Journal 966 66
Bellan, Paul M. (2023) Energetic electron tail production from binary encounters of discrete electrons and ions in a sub-Dreicer electric field Physics of Plasma 30, 103901
Zhang, Yang and Pree, Seth and Bellan, Paul M. (2023) Generation of laboratory nanoflares from multiple braided plasma loops. Nature Astronomy, 7 pp. 655-661.
Bellan, P. M., 2022 Mechanism for the Efficient Homogeneous Nucleation of Ice in a Weakly Ionized, Ultra-Cold Plasma. ApJ 936, 52.
Zhang, Yang and Bellan, Paul M., 2022. Neutral-charged-particle Collisions as the Mechanism for Accretion Disk Angular Momentum Transport. Astrophysical Journal 930, Art. No. 167.
Bellan, Paul M. 1979. "Spontaneous, Three-Dimensional, Constant-Energy Implosion of Magnetic Mirror Fields". Physical Review Letters 43 (12): 858–61. (this paper is the basis of the compression scheme being used by startup HelicitySpace LLC where I am a Scientific Advisor)