Fusion plasma theory and modelling





Big machines, hot plasma, and cool technology

Cutaway diagram of the future ITER experiment
- Plasma physics lies at the centre of many exciting technologies that are undergoing rapid development in the scientific and engineering communities. In particular, the drive behind magnetically-confined nuclear fusion is gaining significant momentum with the recently emerging desires of governments and national populations to get away from fossil-fuel based power. Construction has recently started in France on the first fusion reactor--dubbed ITER--that will consistently produce more energy than it consumes. The technical and scientific challenges inherent to the construction of ITER are some of the greatest that the scientific and engineering communities have ever had to face. Consequently, a race is currently underway to ascertain as much understanding as possible about the fundamental workings of magnetically confined plasmas, so as to best ensure the success of ITER when construction is completed in 2024.
The Plasma Theory and Modelling group focuses on understanding these fundamental properties of plasmas through a variety of different academic perspectives. With a particular focus on magnetically-confined plasma physics, the group has an eclectic range of expertise including modelling and computer simulation of plasma turbulence and equilibria, fluid dynamics, mathematical theory of dynamical systems, plasma diagnostic design and using advanced statistical techniques in analysing experimental data. The group also actively fosters international collaboration in plasma research and is currently engaged in research with scientists in the UK, Germany and the United States.
Beyond nuclear fusion, the Plasma Theory and Modelling group has members whose interests also include the dynamics, modelling and computer simulation associated with weather, fluid flow and space plasma phenomena, to name just a few.
If you have any interest in plasma theory or modelling please feel free to contact any of the researchers in the group; we would be very happy to talk with you!
Advanced Monte Carlo Modelling for Network Tomography
The study of toroidally confined plasmas requires the tackling of very complex inverse problems, like inferring the internal behaviour of the plasma from limited data provided by sensors. A cross disciplinary research project was undertaken by Matthew Hole and honours student Ashley Barnes, where the modelling and inference skills of the group were applied to computer network tomography.
Network tomography, much like the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) used in medical imaging, is the inferring of internal structures, behaviours and properties of a network by analysing traffic passing between nodes in a network. Where PET analyses the behaviour of positrons passing through tissue to image the internal structure, network tomography can describe the inference of traffic flow, node status and structure of a network. Like investigating the behaviour of plasma currents from limited sensor data, problems in this field require the inference of network properties from the traffic data between a limited number of ‘monitor’ nodes that one has access to.
This project focuses on optimising the placement of these monitor nodes so as to maximise the chance that certain network behaviours can be inferred. So far, we have used a novel stochastic network model to demonstrate that certain monitor placement algorithms perform better than others in dynamic, load balancing networks.
Potential Student Projects
There are several additional ideas that would work well as honours or masters projects, including:
- Breaking networks down into topological constituents and determining whether certain topological properties lend themselves to better inference than others.
- Implementing the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) network protocol within the model in order to introduce OSPF poisoning attacks. These attacks could then be another network behaviour to detect and locate with the Monte Carlo inference.
If you’re interested in learning more, please contact Ashley ashley.barnes@anu.edu.au or Matthew matthew.hole@anu.edu.au
Presentations
An overview of the research activity within the group is available in the following seminars.
- 9 August 2018 - The mathematics of fusion plasmas (pdf, 5.1MB)
- 17 November 2016 (pdf, 2.8MB)
- 18 April 2013 (pdf, 3.2MB)
Team Leader
Researchers
Other members
- George Bowden
- Brett Layden
- Sebastian Cox
PhD students
Graduate & honours research students
Research in the physics of complex physical systems spans physics, engineering, applied mathematics and computational science. Research in this multidisciplinary field gives a good generalist training applicable to many careers. Much of the research of the group has been in aspects of fusion research, which is presently of great international interest as we approach the peak in oil production and seek long-term, non-CO2-producing alternatives. Universities and institutes in the USA, Europe and Japan are either hiring or are associated with attractive postdoctoral fellowships; but graduates also move into many other areas of employment.
Student projects
Opportunities for students wanting to undertake summer vacation projects, honours research, PhB projects and research higher degrees (Masters and PhD) exist within the group across a range of pursuits.
- Summer 2022-2023: Quantum computing of fusion plasmas
Former PhD students
Name | Thesis title | Year | Present position |
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George Bowden | Damping of Alfvén eigenmodes in complicated tokamak and stellarator geometries | 2017 | UNSW Canberra, Space Weather Modelling |
Zhisong Qu | Fluid descriptions of externally heated tokamak plasmas | 2017 | ANU MSI |
Lei Chang | The impact of magnetic geometry on wave modes in cylindrical plasmas | 2013 | Lecturer, Airforce Engineering University, Xi'an City |
Mathew McGann | Hamilton-Jacobi theory for connecting equilibrium magnetic fields across a toroidal surface supporting a plasma pressure discontinuity | 2013 | Analyst, ANU Edge |
Meelis Zidikheri | Dynamical Subgrid-scale Parameterizations for Quasigeostrophic Flows using Direct Numerical Simulations |
2008 | Staff member, Australian Bureau of Meteorology |
Andrew Sullivan | Competitive Thermokinetics and Non-linear Bushfire Behaviour | 2008 | Team Leader, Bushfire Dynamics and Applications Group, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems |
Ben McMillan | Global Wavemodes of Dissipative Fluid Models in Strongly Three Dimensional Plasmas: Calculation and Interpretation. | 2005 | Postdoctoral Fellow, CRPP, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland |
Sally Lloyd | Simulating Magnetic Islands of the H-1NF Heliac using the MHD Equilibrium Code HINT | 2003 | Tutor, Townsville |
Alexei Khorev | The Concept of Approximate Action-Angle Variables for Nonintegrable Hamiltonian Dynamics | 2002 | Tutor, Canberra |
Paul Cuthbert | Ballooning Instabilities in Three-Dimensional Toroidal Plasmas | 2000 | IT-Security Contractor, Canberra |
Sean Dettrick | Drift Orbits and Neoclassical Transport in the H-1NF Heliac | 1998 | Research Staff, TriAlpha Energy Corporation, USA |
Jerome Lewandowski | Drift Wave Models for Three-Dimensional Plasmas | 1997 | Research staff, Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA |
Stuart Hudson | Generalized Magnetic Coordinates for Toroidal Magnetic Fields | 1997 | Research staff, Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA |
Gustav Meglicki | Analysis and Application of Smoothed Particle Magnetohydrodynamics | 1996 | Senior Technical Adviser, Office of the Vice President for IT, Indiana University, USA |
Ken Wessen | Application of the Invariant Manifold Reduction to Plasma Instabilities | 1993 | Researcher, Grinham Managed Funds, Pty Ltd; Adjunct Lecturer, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, UWA |
Alex Pletzer | Two-dimensional Computations of the Outer Matching Data in Resistive Stability | 1992 | Scientific Programmer, Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA |
Gary Cooper | Stability of Helical Plasmas | 1989 | Telstra? |
Ritchie Parker | Nonlinear Behaviour of the Resistive Tearing Instability in Plasmas | 1988 | Physicist, Nestl, Lausanne, Switzerland |
Henry Gardner | The Free-Boundary Equilibrium Problem for Helically Symmetric Plasmas | 1986 | Senior Fellow, Department of Computer Science, FEIT, ANU |
Former masters students
Name | Thesis title | Year |
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Li Huey Tuen | Stability of a two-volume MRxMHD model in slab geometry | 2017 |
Sebastian Cox | The impact of fishbones on neutron rate in beam-heated plasmas | 2016 |
Ashley Gibson | Reconciliation of Almost-Invariant | 2012 |
Jason Bertram | A Theoretical Study of Macroscopic Wave Activity in H-1 Plasmas | 2011 |
Former honours students
Name | Thesis title | Year | Department | Result |
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Alexander Johnston | The Effect of Pressure Anisotropy on Ballooning Modes in Tokamak Plasmas | 2016 | Physics | 1st Class Honours |
Kieran Woolfe | Coordinate Transformations in Tokomak Equilibria | 2012 | Physics | 1st Class Honours |
Ben Wilkinson | Plasma wakefield structure generated by a gaussian electron bunch with a highly elliptical transverse profile | 2014 | Physics | 2nd Class Honours |
Ruth Mills | 3D Plasma Equilibria | 2007 | Physics | 1st + University Medal |
Graham Dennis | Multi-Fluid Plasma Modelling | 2005 | Physics | 1st + University Medal |
Kristen Feher | Quasi Two-Dimensional Turbulence in Plasma | 2003 | Physics | 1st Class Honours |
Vanessa Robins | Periodic Orbits and Invariant Tori in Symplectic Maps | 1994 | Maths | 1st + University Medal |
Stephen Hardy | Arnold Diffusion in Magnetic Confinement Geometries | 1993 | Physics | 1st + University Medal |
Adrienne Fairhall | Centre Manifold Reduction of Tearing Modes in a Plasma Current Sheet | 1991 | Physics | 1st + University Medal |
As PT&M scientists have strong collaborations with researchers around the globe, often overseas collaborators will come and visit the PT&M group at ANU to not only work on research but to also give talks to the school about their academic work. Here you will find information on researchers that recently came to work on their collaborations with PT&M group members. In particular, various talks/presentations given by PT&M visitors are linked (with permission) in the table below.
Domestic and International Visitors
Name | Talk titles and links | ANU collaborators |
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Adjunct Professor Roger Hosking School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide Adelaide, Australia 3 March 2020 |
The Liley Form for the pressure tensor in magnetised plasma |
Matthew Hole Robert Dewar Markus Hegland |
Dr Grgegorz Pelka and Prof. Roman Zagorski Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion Warsaw, Poland 21-25 October, 2019 |
Mesh generation and preliminary Findif calculations for limiter W7-X confiuration |
Matthew Hole Zhisong Qu Robert Dewar Boyd Blackwell |
Professor Chang-Bae Kim Physics Department, Soongsil University Seoul, Korea 25 February 2019 |
Cross phase of drift-resistive plasma fluctuations near edge |
Matthew Hole Robert Dewar |
Dr Guangzhou Hao Chengu, Sichuan, China |
Research activities in theory division of the South Western Institute of Physics |
Matthew Hole Zhisong Qu |
Prof. Phillipa Browning University of Manchester |
Plasma heating and particle acceleration in solar and tokamak twisted flux ropes |
Matthew Hole Robert Dewar Zhisong Qu |
Prof. Masayuki Yokoyama National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan March 28-29 2018 |
Status of the Large Helical Device (LHD) deuterium experiment, and call for mutual interaction between NIFS and ANU (PDF, 18MB) | Matthew Hole Clive Michael Robert Dewar Boyd Blackwell |
Prof. Artur Malaquias Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal August 2017 - February 2018 |
Experimental characterization of AC discharges transition in ISTTOK (PDF, 14MB) Experimental investigation of equilibrium relevant profiles during AC transition in the ISTTOK tokamak (PDF, 8MB) |
Robert Dewar Clive Michael Matthew Hole |
Dr Ben McMillan University of Warwick, UK December 12-13 2017 |
Subcritical turbulence in tokamaks (PDF, 3.3MB) | Robert Dewar Matthew Hole |
Dr Alex Pletzer NZ eScience Infrastructure December 11 2017 |
Mimetic discretizations: new opportunities for pre- and post-processing (PDF, 2.4MB) | Robert Dewar |
Hervé Guillard Inria Sophia Antipolis Mediterranee, France August 24-25 2017 |
Fast waves and incompressible models (PDF, 1.5MB) | Robert Dewar Matthew Hole |
Mr Naoki Sato The University of Tokyo, Japan September 20 - October 20 2016 |
Entropy measure for systems without topological constraints (PDF, 7MB) | Robert Dewar Matthew Hole |
Dr Michael Fitzgerald Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK August 1 - August 12 2016 |
Predictions of fusion α-particle transport due to Alfvén eigenmodes in ITER (PDF, 3.4MB) | Matthew Hole |
Dr Michael Fitzgerald Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK June 1 - June 5 2015 |
Matthew Hole Brett Layden Zhisong Qu |
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Mr Michael Cole PhD student, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany October 22 - November 15 2014 |
Fluid electron, gyrokinetic ion simulations of global modes in tokamaks and stellarators (PDF, 625KB) | Matthew Hole Boyd Blackwell Shaun Haskey |
Dr Shahriar Hossain Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia April 16 2014 |
High Performance Magnesium Diboride (MgB2) Superconducting Wires and Cables: Towards the Prospect for Commercialization (PDF, 10MB) | Matthew Hole Cormac Corr Boyd Blackwell |
Dr Geert Verdoolaege Department of Applied Physics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, & Laboratory for Plasma Physics, Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium December 18 2013 |
Analyzing large and complex data sets in fusion: Modern tools from probability theory and pattern recognition (PDF, 7MB) | Greg von Nessi Robert Dewar Matthew Hole |
Dr. Yohei Kawazura Deptartment of Advanced Energy, University of Tokyo, Japan December 18 2013 |
Self-organization and entropy production rate in thermally driven turbulence (PDF, 8MB) | Greg von Nessi Robert Dewar Matthew Hole |
Professor Artur Malaquias Scientific Secretary for EFDA Leader, UK and Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal August 26 2013 |
The Heavy Ion Beam Diagnostic - Application for a Small Fusion Device (PDF, 4MB) Experimental characterization of AC discharges transition in ISTTOK (PDF, 5MB) |
Boyd Blackwell Matthew Hole John Howard |
Professor Lie Liu National University of Defense Technology, Chengdu, China January 28 - March 8 2013 |
Phsyics of high-current diode (PDF, 6.3MB) | Matthew Hole Lei Chang Haitao Chen |
Dr. Axel Koenies Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (Greifswald), Germany January 23 - February 8 2013 |
Numerical approaches to kinetic MHD in stellarators (PDF, 10.4MB) A computational approach to continuum damping of Alfven waves in two and three-dimensional geometry (PDF, 1.5MB) |
Boyd Blackwell George Bowden Robert Dewar Michael Fitzgerald Shaun Haskey Matthew Hole |
Dr Stuart Hudson Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA July 13 - August 4 2012 |
Graham Dennis Robert Dewar Matthew Hole Greg von Nessi |
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Dr. Ken McClements Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK March 25 - April 16 2011 |
Axisymmetric Two-Fluid Plasma Equilibria with Momentum Sources and Sinks (PDF, 1.4MB) | Michael Fitzgerald Matthew Hole |
Prof. Zensho Yoshida Department of Advanced Energy, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan 27 January - 4 Februrary 2011 |
Entropy and Vorticity in Self-Organizing Fluid/Plasma Systems (PDF, 3.9MB) | Robert Dewar Matthew Hole Greg von Nessi |
Dr. Jakob Svensson Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Teilinstitut Greifswald, X14 3DB, UK 1 November - 22 December 2010 |
Bayesian Analysis at JET and the Minerva Framework (PDF, 2.5MB) | Robert Dewar Matthew Hole Greg von Nessi |
Dr. Sergei Sharapov Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK 4-30 July 2010 |
Abrupt Changes in Magnetic Turbulence during L-H Transitions and ITB Formations on JET (PDF, 3.8MB)
Lectures Given for 2010 Winter School:
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Robert Dewar Michael Fitzgerald Matthew Hole |
Dr. Lynton Appel Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK 9 May - 4 June 2010 |
An Overview of MAST (PPS, 23.8MB) EFIT++ Equilibrium Reconstruction (PDF, 1.8MB) HAGIS Code (PDF, 3.5MB) IDAM (PDF, 128kB) IDAM (condensed) (PDF, 51kB) |
Boyd Blackwell Robert Dewar Matthew Hole John Howard Greg von Nessi |
Prof. Chang Mo Ryu Pohang University of Science and Technology, Physics Department, S. Korea 4-17 February 2010 |
POSTECH/ANU collaborations on MHD sawteeth and suprathermal electron modes in K-STAR plasmas (PDF, 14MB) | Matthew Hole |
Mr. Min Hao Yu Pohang University of Science and Technology, Physics Department, S. Korea 4-17 February 2010 |
Matthew Hole | |
Prof. James Meiss University of Colorado, Applied Mathematics Department, USA July 2009 |
Robert Dewar Matthew Hole Greg von Nessi |
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Prof. Richard Dendy University of Warwick, Physics Department, UK 5-20 December 2008 |
Robert Dewar Matthew Hole |
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Prof. Howard Wilson University of York, Physics Department, UK 5-10 December 2008 |
Robert Dewar Matthew Hole |
External Australian collaborators
- Dr Rowena Ball (ANU Mathematical Sciences Institute)
- Dr Linda Stals (ANU Mathematical Sciences Institute)
- Dr Jorgen Frederiksen (CSIRO & Visiting Fellow, DTP, RSPhysSE, ANU)
- Dr Henry J. Gardner (Dept. of Computer Science, FEIT, ANU)
- Prof Robin G. Storer (Flinders University of South Australia)
- Dr Frank Detering (Diversity Arrays Technology)
- Adjunct Prof. Roger Hoskings (University of Adelaide)
Book
(1 publications)
Fundamental Fluid Mechanics and Magnetohydrodynamics
Springer, Singapore (2016) 1-279
Book editor
(2 publications)
Complex Physical, Biophysical and Econophysical Systems
World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore (2010) 388
Plasma Physics: Proceedings of the 11th International Congress on Plasma Physics, ICPP2002
American Institute of Physics (AIP), New York (2003)
Book chapter
(7 publications)
Fusion Power and Nanoscience Challenges for Extreme Materials
Nanotechnology Toward the Sustainocene
Pan Stanford Publishing, Singapore (2015) 215-238
The Screened Field of a Test Particle
In Celebration of K C Hines
World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore (2010) 47-73
Nonlinear Simulation of Drift Wave Turbulence
Frontiers in Turbulence and Coherent Structures: proceedings of the COSNet/CSIRO Workshop on Turbulence and Coherent Structures in Fluids, Plasmas and Nonlinear Media
World Scientific Publishing Company, New Jersey, USA (2007) 431-442
Zonal Flow Generation by Modulational Instabiity
Frontiers in Turbulence and Coherent Structures: proceedings of the COSNet/CSIRO Workshop on Turbulence and Coherent Structures in Fluids, Plasmas and Nonlinear Media
World Scientific Publishing Company, New Jersey, USA (2007) 415-430
A Broken Degeneracy in the Resistive MHD Spectrum
Plasma Physics: Proceedings of the 11th International Congress on Plasma Physics, ICPP2002
American Institute of Physics (AIP), New York (2003) 577-580
Bifurcation and Metamorphosis of Plasma Turbulence-Shear Flow Dynamics: The Path to the Top of the Hill
Plasma Physics: Proceedings of the 11th International Congress on Plasma Physics, ICPP2002
American Institute of Physics (AIP), New York (2003) 711-714
Non-Linear Dynamics
Complex Systems
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2000) 165-249
Journal article
(122 publications)
Pedestals and feedback in fusion-plasma relevant sandpile models
Physics of Plasmas 25, 1(2018) 1-10
Three-quasiparticle isomer in Ta 173 and the excitation energy dependence of K -forbidden transition rates
Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics 95, 5(2017)
An experimentally constrained MHD model for a collisional, rotating plasma column
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 59, 2(2017) 1-11
An experimentally constrained MHD model for a collisional, rotating plasma column
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 59, 2(2017) 1-11
Major results from the first plasma campaign of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator
Nuclear Fusion 57, 10(2017) 102020 13
Linear radial structure of reactive energetic geodesic acoustic modes
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 59, 5(2017) 055018 15
Multi-region relaxed magnetohydrodynamics in plasmas with slowly changing boundaries --- resonant response of a plasma slab
Physics of Plasmas 24, 4(2017) 042507 19
The spectrum of multi-region-relaxed magnetohydrodynamic modes in topologically toroidal geometry
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 59, 4(2017) 17
Impact of energetic particle orbits on long range frequency chirping of BGK modes
Nuclear Fusion 57, 12(2017) 1-16.
Global Alfvén eigenmodes in the H-1 heliac
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 59, 12(2017) 12
Global Alfvén eigenmodes in the H-1 heliac
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 59, 12(2017) 12
Energetic Geodesic Acoustic Modes Associated with Two-Stream-like Instabilities in Tokamak Plasmas
Physical Review Letters 116, 9(2016) 95004-95004
Widely tunable, narrow linewidth external-cavity gain chip laser for spectroscopy between 1.0-1.1 µm
Optics Express 24, 24(2016) 27403-27414
Energetic Geodesic Acoustic Modes Associated with Two-Stream-like Instabilities in Tokamak Plasmas
Physical Review Letters 116, 9(2016) 95004-95004
Impact of pressure anisotropy on magnetic configuration and stability
Nuclear Fusion 56, 11(2016) 11.
Impact of pressure anisotropy on magnetic configuration and stability
Nuclear Fusion 56, 11(2016) 10.
Confirmation of the topology of the Wendelstein 7-X magnetic field to better than 1:100,000
Nature Communications 7, -(2016) 13493-13493
Delay time embedding of mass loss avalanches in a fusion plasma-oriented sandpile model
Physics of Plasmas 23, 10(2016)
Experiment-theory comparison for low frequency BAE modes in the strongly shaped H-1NF stellarator
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 57, 9(2015) 1-12
Modeling the effect of anisotropic pressure on tokamak plasmas normal modes and continuum using fluid approaches
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 57, 9(2015) 13
High-beta equilibria in tokamaks with pressure anisotropy and toroidal flow
Physics of Plasmas 22, 12(2015) 1-10
MHD normal mode analysis with equilibrium pressure anisotropy
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 57, 2(2015) 1-11
Variational formulation of relaxed and multi-region relaxed magnetohydrodynamics
Journal of Plasma Physics 81, 6(2015) 515810604
A singular finite element technique for calculating continuum damping of Alfvén eigenmodes
Physics of Plasmas 22, 2(2015) 022116/1-8
Calculation of continuum damping of Alfven eigenmodes in tokamak and stellarator equilibria
Physics of Plasmas 22, 9(2015) 1-10
Analysing the impact of anisotropy pressure on tokamak equilibria
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 56, 7(2014) 1-10
Resolving the wave-particle-plasma interaction: advances in the diagnosis, interpretation and self-consistent modelling of waves, particles and the plasma configuration
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 56, 5(2014) 053001/1-21
Recent developments in Bayesian inference of tokamak plasma equilibria and high-dimensional stochastic quadratures
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 56, 11(2014) 114011/ 1-13
Multi-region relaxed magnetohydrodynamics with flow
Physics of Plasmas 21, 4(2014) 9
Modeling the Single-Helical Axis State in the Reversed-Field Pinch
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 42, 10(2014) 2514-2515
Comparison of methods for numerical calculation of continuum damping
Physics of Plasmas 21, 5(2014) 052508
Multi-region relaxed magnetohydrodynamics with anisotropy and flow
Physics of Plasmas 21, 7(2014) 072512/ 1-10
First evidence of Alfvén wave activity in KSTAR plasmas
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 55, 4(2013) 7
Fast particle modifications to equilibria and resulting changes to Alfvén wave modes in tokamaks
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 55, 1(2013) 1-7
A unified method for inference of tokamak equilibria and validation of force-balance models based on Bayesian analysis
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 46, 18(2013) 26
A multichannel magnetic probe system for analysing magnetic fluctuations in helical axis plasmas
Review of Scientific Instruments 84, 9(2013)
Overview of physics results from MAST towards ITER/DEMO and the MAST Upgrade
Nuclear Fusion 53, 10(2013) 15
Using Bayesian analysis and Gaussian processes to infer electron temperature and density profiles on the Mega-Ampere Spherical Tokamak experiment
Review of Scientific Instruments 84, 6(2013) 5
Gap eigenmode of radially localized helicon waves in a periodic structure
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 55, 2(2013) 9
EFIT tokamak equilibria with toroidal flow and anisotropic pressure using the two-temperature guiding-centre plasma
Nuclear Fusion 53, 11(2013) 113040
Minimally Constrained Model of Self-Organized Helical States in Reversed-Field Pinches
Physical Review Letters 111, 5(2013) 055003
The infinite interface limit of multiple-region relaxed magnetohydrodynamics
Physics of Plasmas 20, 3(2013) 032509/ 1-6
Plasmoid solutions of the Hahm-Kulsrud-Taylor equilibrium model
Physics of Plasmas 20, 8(2013)
Generalized action-angle coordinates defined on island chains
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 55, 1(2013) 014004/1-5
Non-axisymmetric, multi-region relaxed magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium solutions
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 54, 1(2012) 1-7
Toroidal ripple transport of beam ions in the mega-ampère spherical tokamak
Physics of Plasmas 19, 7(2012) 072514
Evidence cross-validation and Bayesian inference of MAST plasma equilibria
Physics of Plasmas 19, 1(2012) 10
Computation of multi-region relaxed magnetohydrodynamic equilibria
Physics of Plasmas 19, 11(2012) 112502/1-18
Helical bifurcation and tearing mode in a plasma-a description based on Casimir foliation
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 45, 36(2012) 365502
Dressed test particles, oscillation centres and pseudo-orbits
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 54, 1(2012) 8
Diamagnetic drift stabilized ballooning modes in a 3D heliotron
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 54, 1(2012) 1-7
A 2-D PIC/MC/Vlasov method for electrostatic fusion discharges
Computer Physics Communications 183, 4(2012) 971-979
Ideal-magnetohydrodynamic theory of low-frequency Alfven waves in the H-1 Heliac
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 54, 5(2012) 055009
Wave modeling in a cylindrical non-uniform helicon discharge
Physics of Plasmas 19, 8(2012) 083511
Action-gradient-minimizing pseudo-orbits and almost-invariant tori
Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 17, 5(2012) 2062-2073
Identifying the impact of rotation, anisotropy, and energetic particle physics in tokamaks
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 53, 7(2011) 11
High-β equilibria in tokamaks with toroidal flow
Physics of Plasmas 18, 9(2011) 092508-8
An equilibrium validation technique based on Bayesian inference
Nuclear Fusion 51, 10(2011) 6
A flowing plasma model to describe drift waves in a cylindrical helicon discharge
Physics of Plasmas 18, 4(2011) 8
Derivation of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation by The Derivative Perturbation Expansion Method
International Journal of Basic & Applied Sciences (IJBAS-IJENS) 11, 2(2011) 120-124
A reduced global Alfven eigenmodes model for Mirnov array data on the H-1NF heliac
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 53, 8(2011) 14
On steady poloidal and toroidal flows in tokamak plasmas
Physics of Plasmas 17, 8(2010) 082509
Hamilton-Jacobi theory for continuation of magnetic field across a toroidal surface supporting a plasma pressure discontinuity
Physics Letters A 374, 33(2010) 3308-3314
Ideal MHD stability of a spherical tokamak power plant and a component test facility
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 52, 12(2010) 125005 13
The use of Bayesian inversion to resolve plasma equilibrium
Review of Scientific Instruments 81, 10(2010) 1E+128-1E+128
Unified Theory of Ghost and Quadratic-Flux-Minimizing Surfaces
Journal of Plasma and Fusion Research 9(2010) 487-490
The impact of energetic particles and rotation on tokamak plasmas
Journal of Physics: Conference Series(online) 260(2010) 012013
Model Data Fusion: developing Bayesian inversion to constrain equilibrium and mode structure
Journal of Plasma and Fusion Research 9(2010) 479-486
Overview of physics results from MAST
Nuclear Fusion 49, 104017(2009) 13
Magnetohydrodynamic stability of plasmas with ideal and relaxed regions
Journal of Plasma Physics 75, 5(2009) 637-659
Relaxed MHD states of a multiple region plasma
Nuclear Fusion 49, 065019(2009) 7
Are ghost surfaces quadratic-flux-minimizing?
Physics Letters A 373(2009) 4409-4415
A high resolution Mirnov array for the Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak
Review of Scientific Instruments 80, 123507(2009) 10
A Modulation Model for Mode Splitting of Magnetic Pertubations in the Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 51, 4(2009) 1-18
Energetically Resolved Multiple-Fluid Equilibria of Tokamak Plasmas
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 51(2009) 1-18
Adiabatic Wave-Particle Interaction Revisited
Plasma and Fusion Research 4, 001(2009) 1-6
Relaxed Plasma Equilibria and Entropy-Related Plasma Self-Organization Principles
Entropy 10(2008) 621-634
Compressional Alfven Eigenmodes on MAST
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 50, 11(2008) 23
Equilibria and stability in partially relaxed plasma-vacuum systems
Nuclear Fusion 47, 8(2007) 746-753
Eigenvalue problems for Beltrami fields arising in a three-dimensional toroidal magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium problem
Physics of Plasmas 14(2007) 052505 1-12
Bifurcation in Electrostatic Resistive Drift Wave Turbulence
Physics of Plasmas 14(2007) 102312 1-8
Laboratory Evidence for Stochastic Plasma-Wave Growth
Physical Review Letters 99, 20(2007) 205004 1-4
Fourier decomposition of magnetic perturbations in toroidal plasmas using singluar value decomposition
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 49, 12 (December 2007)(2007) 1971-1988
Quantum Chaos? Genericity and Nongenericity in the MHD Spectrum of Nonaxisymmetric Toroidal Plasmas
Journal of the Korean Physical Society 50, 1(2007) 112-117
Stellarator Stability with Respect to Global Kinetic Ballooning Modes
Nuclear Fusion 46(2006) 477-486
Fusion research: Australian connections - Past and future
Australian Physics 43, 4(2006) 132-138
Stepped Pressure Profile Equilibria in Cylindrical Plasmas via Partial Taylor Relaxation
Journal of Plasma Physics 72, 6(2006) 1167-1171
Quantum Chaos Analysis of the Ideal Interchange Spectrum in a Stellarator
Journal of Plasma Physics 72, 6(2006) 1239-1242
Ideal MHD stability of the mega-ampere spherical tokamak
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 47(2005) 581-613
Charge to the astro brigade [4]
Physics Today 58, 11(2005) 15-
Stray capacitance of a two-layer air-cored inductor
IEE Proceedings - Circuits, Devices and Systems 152, 6(2005) 565-572
Overview of MAST results
Nuclear Fusion 45, 10(2005) 157-167
Calibration of the high-frequency magnetic fluctuation diagnostic in plasma devices
Review of Scientific Instruments 76(2005) 093505-1/11
MAST and the impact of low aspect ration on tokamak physics
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 46, 12B(2004) 477-494
Integrated Plasma Physics Modelling for the Culham Steady State Spherical Tokamak Fusion Power Plant
Nuclear Fusion 44(2004) 917-929
A Comparison of Incompressible Limits for Resistive Plasmas
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 46(2004) 1027-1038
ELM Characteristics in MAST
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 43, 3(2004) 551-572
Stability at High Performance in the MAST Spherical Tokamak
Nuclear Fusion 44, 9(2004) 1027-1035
Statistical Characterization of the Interchange-Instability Spectrum of a Separable Ideal-Magnetohydrodynamic Model System
Physical Review E-Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics 70, 6(2004) 066409 11
Statistics of Polarization and Stokes Parameters of Stochastic Waves
Physical Review E-Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics 70(2004) 03661912
Turbulent Edge Structure Formation in Complex Configurations
Physics of Plasmas 10(2003) 3684-3691
Spectrum of Global Ideal-magnetohydrodynamic Three-dimensional Ballooning Modes
Space Science Reviews 107, 1-2(2003) 349-352
Overview of recent experimental results on MAST
Nuclear Fusion 43, 12(2003) 1665-1673
Excitation of axisymmetric Alfv?nic modes in Ohmic tokamak discharges
Nuclear Fusion 42, 9(2002) 1155-1161
Bruce Sween Liley
Physics Today 55, 5(2002) 78-
H-mode access and performance in the mega-amp spherical tokamak
Physics of Plasmas 9, 9(2002) 3919-
Anderson Localization of Ballooning Modes, Quantum Chaos and the Stability of Compact Quasiaxially Symmetric Stellarators
Physics of Plasmas 9, 5(2002) 1990-1996
Asymptotology - A Cautionary Tale
ANZIAM Journal 44(2002) 33-40
Plasma Instability of a Vacuum Arc Centrifuge
Physical Review E-Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics 65(2002) 046409
Excitation of Alfvénic modes in Ohmic tokamak discharges
Nuclear Fusion 42, 9(2002) 1155-1161
Metamorphosis of Plasma Turbulence-shear-flow Dynamics through a Transcritical Bifurcation
Physical Review E 66, 6(2002) 066408-1-9
A Walk in the Parameter Space of L-H Transitions without Stepping on or Through the Cracks
Journal of Plasma and Fusion Research , 4(2001) 266-270
Analytical Description of a Collisional Plasma Column in a Vacuum Arc Centrifuge
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 34(2001) 3028-3035
"Strong "Quantum" Chaos in the Global Ballooning Mode Spectrum of Three-Dimensional Plasmas"
Physical Review Letters 86, 11(2001) 2321-2324
Singularity Theory Study of Overdetermination in Models for L-H Transitions
Physical Review Letters 84(2000) 3077-3080
Anderson-Localized Ballooning Modes in General Toroidal Plasmas
Physics of Plasmas 7, 6(2000) 2302-2305
Separative performance in a vacuum arc centrifuge
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 27, 2(1999) 620-627
Overview of Australian Activities of Fusion Neutronics
Fusion Engineering and Design 45(1999) 117-126
Analysis of Perturbed Magnetic Fields via Construction of Nearby Integrable Fields
Physics of Plasmas 6(1999) 1532-1538
Quasilinear theory of collisionless Fermi Acceleration in a multicusp magnetic confinement geometry
Physical Review E-Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics 60, 6(1999) 7400-7411
Theory and simulation of rotational shear stabilization of turbulence
Physics of Plasmas 5, 5 PART 1(1998) 1784-1792
Performance of a vacuum arc centrifuge with a non-uniform magnetic field
Physics of Plasmas 4, 10(1997) 3493-3500
Conference paper
(11 publications)
Wave modelling in a cylindrical non-uniform helicon discharge
39th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics 2012, EPS 2012 and the 16th International Congress on Plasma Physics 2(2012) 994-997
Connecting physics models and diagnostic data using bayesian graphical models
37th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics 2010, EPS 2010 1(2010) 169-172
On steady poloidal and toroidal flows in tokamak plasmas
37th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics 2010, EPS 2010 2(2010) 1238-1241
Bayesian Inference applied to magnetic equilibrium on MAST
37th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics 2010, EPS 2010 2(2010) 1146-1149
MHD memes
Plasma theory, wave kinetics, nonlinear dynamics: Kaufmanfest 2007 169(2009) 8
The H-1 National Plasma Fusion Research Facility, and the prospects for Stellarators in the Quest for Fusion Power
Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference 2006 (2006) 6
Stability for Kinetic Ballooning Modes in Stellarators
National Congress Australian Institute of Physics 2005 (2005) 235-1-4
Spacing Statistics of Model Spectra Related to Farey Sequences
National Congress Australian Institute of Physics 2005 (2005) PTH 41
Quantum Chaos Theory and the Spectrum of Ideal-MHD Instabilities in Toroidal Plasmas
International Toki Conference (ITC 2004) (2004) 40-44
Modelling of Alfvenic activity in the Mast tokamak
Joint Varenna-Lausanne International Workshop on Theory of Fusion Plasmas (2002)
Symmetry and singularities in a low-dimensional model of a complex system. A back door approach to the physics of L-H transitions
IPELS-2001 (2001) 73-76
Conference written presentation
(6 publications)
Configurational Effects on Stability and Confinement in the H-1NF Heliac
International Atomic Energy Agency Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2008) (2008)
THE POTENTIAL FOR AUSTRALIAN INVOLVEMENT IN ITER
Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference 2006 (2006)
"Equilibria and stability in partially relaxed plasma-vacuum systems"
International Atomic Energy Agency Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2006) (2006)
Observations of Alfvenic MHD Activity in the H-1 Heliac
International Atomic Energy Agency Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2006) (2006) 8
Complex Nonlinear Lagrangian for the Hasegawa-Mima Equation
International Atomic Energy Agency Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2004) (2004) P6-1
Finite Larmor Radius Effects and Quantum Chaos
International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICCP 2004) (2004) online
Journal short contribution (non refereed)
(2 publications)
Selected papers from the Joint 18th International Stellarator Heliotron Workshop and the 10th Asia Pacific Plasma Theory Conference
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 55, 1(2013) 010201
Anderson Localization and Ballooning Eigenfunctions
Chinese Physics Letters (2000) 33-35
Newspaper / magazine article
(3 publications)
Fusion Down Under
ITER Newsline (2009)
Harnessing the untapped power of fusion for potentially limitless energy
The Canberra Times , 3 September 2007(2007) 2
Australia needs to get back to the front on fusion power
The Age (2006)
Journal article (non-refereed)
(1 publications)
Nuclear fusion: the future of energy production
Australasian Science 26, 10(2005) 17-20
- Australian ITER Forum
- Information on Fusion - Fusion Power Associates
- Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE)
- CSIRO Atmospheric Physics
- The PRLCodeMonster_VM is a virtual machine with some interesting code for plasma physics installed on it.