title: Spatiotemporal signal analysis via the phase velocity transform.
abstract: The phase velocity transform (PVT) is an integral transform that divides a function of space and time into components that propagate at uniform phase velocities without distortion. This paper examines the PVT as a method to analyze spatiotemporal fluctuation data. The transform is extended to systems with discretely sampled data on a periodic domain, and applied to data from eight azimuthally distributed probes on the Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment (SSPX). This reveals features not shown by Fourier analysis, particularly regarding nonsinusoidal mode structure.
authors.affiliation: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA.
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authors.lastname: Mattor