Langmuir wave study in a laboratory plasma, a model for solar wind.

This thesis explores Langmuir waves in a laboratory plasma and draws comparisons to solar wind turbulence. A dual-filament setup generates and perturbs a plasma (argon/helium), with Langmuir probes used to extract electron characteristics. A Vlasov–Poisson code simulates beam–plasma interactions and produces a k-spectrum for comparison. This research seeks to validate lab diagnostics against space-based probe data from missions like Parker Solar Probe.