Center for Plasma Theory and Computation

    University of Wisconsin-Madison    

 

   1500 Engineering Dr, Madison, WI 53706-1609

CPTC Main Office, Room 503 Engineering Research Building / Phone: (608) 263-8142 / Fax: (608) 265-2438

 

Faculty

        John H. Booske ECE 262-8548 booske@engr.wisc.edu  
        James D. Callen EP & Physics 262-1370 callen@engr.wisc.edu
        Cary B. Forest Physics 263-0486 cbforest@wisc.edu
        Chris C. Hegna EP & Physics 263-0810 hegna@engr.wisc.edu  
        Eric D. Held Utah State 890-1877 eheld@wisc.edu  
        Greg A. Moses EP 265-6567 moses@engr.wisc.edu  
        Stewart C. Prager Physics 262-7768 scprager@wisc.edu
        John E. Scharer ECE 263-1614 scharer@engr.wisc.edu
        Dalton D. Schnack Physics 262-3628 schnack@cox.net  
        Carl R. Sovinec EP & Physics 263-5525 sovinec@engr.wisc.edu
        Paul W. Terry Physics 263-0487 pwterry@wisc.edu
        Ellen G. Zweibel Astronomy & Physics 262-7921 zweibel@astro.wisc.edu  
          

        Scientific Staff & Postdocs

        Adam Bayliss EP 263-5808 rabayliss@wisc.edu
        Andrew Cole EP 262-1370 acole@engr.wisc.edu
        Fatima Ebrahimi Physics 262-7704 febrahimi@wisc.edu
        Yi-Min Huang Physics 263-5808 huang10@wisc.edu
        Thomas Jenkins Physics 262-7555 tgjenkins@wisc.edu
        Jeong-Young Ji Utah State 890-1877 jyji@cc.usu.edu
        Vladimir V. Mirnov Physics 265-3574 vvmirnov@wisc.edu
        Vladimir I. Pariev Physics 262-5700 pariev@wisc.edu
        Jean Carlos Perez Physics 265-3375 jcperez@wisc.edu
        Tariq Rafiq EP 263-2193 rafiq@engr.wisc.edu
        John F. Santarius EP 263-1694 santarius@engr.wisc.edu
        Kerchung Shaing EP 263-3143 kshaing@wisc.edu
        Varun Tangri Physics 262-7555 tangri@wisc.edu
        Ping Zhu EP 262-6285 pzhu@wisc.edu

        Technical Staff

        Tony Hammond EP 263-6577 hammonda@cae.wisc.edu

        Administrative Staff

          Kathy Wegner EP 263-8142 wegner@engr.wisc.edu



             For additional contact information: http://www.wisc.edu/wiscinfo/directories/


          CPTC Reports

          • UW-CPTC 08-1: "Global axisymmetric simulations of two-fluid reconnection in an experimentally relevant geometry" by Nicholas A. Murphy and Carl R. Sovinec, January 22, 2008. (UW-CPTC 08-1.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 08-2: "Ballooning stability of near-Earth plasma sheet during the March 23, 2007 THEMIS substorm event: A local analysis" by P. Zhu, J. Raeder, K. Germaschewski, A. Bhattacharjee & C.C. Hegna, February 2008. (UW-CPTC 08-2.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 08-3: "Nonlinear MHD dynamics of pulsed parallel current drive in reversed-field pinches" by J.M. Reynolds, C.R. Sovinec & S.C. Prager, April 2008. (UW-CPTC 08-3.pdf)




          • UW-CPTC 07-1: "Axisymmetric Interchange Calculations with NIMROD" by C.R. Sovinec, January 9, 2007. (UW-CPTC 07-1.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 07-2: "Effect of neoclassical toroidal viscosity on error-field penetration thresholds in tokamak plasmas" by A.J. Cole, C.C. Hegna & J.D. Callen, March 13, 2007. (UW-CPTC 07-2.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 07-3_rev: "Scaling of Ohmic Tokamak Error-field Penetration Thresholds in the Presence of Neoclassical Toroidal Viscosity" by A.J. Cole, C.C. Hegna & J.D. Callen, revised January 4, 2008. (UW-CPTC 07-3_rev.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 07-4: "ECRH and its effects on neoclassical transport in stellarators" by JaeChun Seol, C.C. Hegna & J.D. Callen, April 6, 2007. (UW-CPTC 07-4.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 07-5: "Paleoclassical electron heat transport model" by J.D. Callen, December 14, 2007. (UW-CPTC 07-5.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 07-6: "Non-ideal MHD ballooning modes in three-dimensional configurations" by T. Rafiq, C.C. Hegna & J.D. Callen, October 2007. (UW-CPTC 07-6.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 07-7_rev: "Neoclassical toroidal viscosity and error-field penetration in tokamaks" by A.J. Cole, C.C. Hegna & J.D. Callen, revised January 4, 2008. (UW-CPTC 07-7_rev.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 07-8: "The absence of complete FLR stabilization in extended MHD" by P. Zhu, D.D. Schnack, F. Ebrahimi, E.G. Zweibel, M. Suzuki, C.C. Hegna & C.R. Sovinec, December 2007. (UW-CPTC 07-8.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 07-9: "Current sheet formation due to a localized interchange mode" by P. Zhu, C.R. Sovinec and C.C. Hegna, December 2007. (UW-CPTC 07-9.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 07-10: "Ballooning filament growth in the intermediate nonlinear regime" by P. Zhu and C.C. Hegna, December 2007. (UW-CPTC 07-10.pdf)




          • UW-CPTC 06-1: "Dissipative trapped-electron instability in quasi-helically symmetric stellarators" by T. Rafiq & C.C. Hegna, revised April 18, 2006. (UW-CPTC 06-1_rev.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 06-2: "Nonlinear Ballooning Instability in the Near-Earth Magnetotail: Growth, Structure, and Possible Roles in Substorms" by P. Zhu, C.R. Sovinec, C.C. Hegna, K. Germaschewski & A. Bhattacharjee, March 2006. (UW-CPTC 06-2.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 06-3: "Key hypothesis of paleoclassical model" by J.D. Callen, September 5, 2006. (UW-CPTC 06-3.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 06-4: "Final Report on the OFES ELM Milestone for FY2006" by D.C. Barnes, R.A. Bayliss, D.P. Brennan, E.D. Held, S.E. Kruger, A.Y. Pankin, D.D. Schnack, C.R. Sovinec, and the NIMROD Team, September 30, 2006. (UW-CPTC 06-4.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 06-5: "Experimental Tests of Paleoclassical Transport" by J.D. Callen et al., October 2006. (UW-CPTC 06-5.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 06-6: "Paleoclassical model for edge electron temperature pedestal" by J.D. Callen et al., March 22, 2007. (UW-CPTC 06-6.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 06-7: "Intermediate nonlinear regime of a line-tied g mode" by P. Zhu, C.C. Hegna, C.R. Sovinec, A. Bhattacharjee & K. Germaschewski, November 2006. (UW-CPTC 06-7.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 06-8_rev: "Derivation of paleoclassical key hypothesis" by J.D. Callen, revised January 25, 2007. (UW-CPTC 06-8_rev.pdf)




          • UW-CPTC 05-1: "An Analysis of Mass Matrix Lumping in NIMROD" by Nick Murphy and Carl Sovinec, January 26, 2005.


          • UW-CPTC 05-2: "Time and Space Dependent Parallel Viscous Force" by Ana Laura Garcia-Perciante, March 2005. (UW-CPTC 05-2.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 05-3: "Nonlinear extended magnetohydrodynamics simulation using high-order finite elements" by C.R. Sovinec, et al., 2005.


          • UW-CPTC 05-4: "Banana regime pressure anisotropy in a bumpy cylinder magnetic field" by A.L. Garcia-Perciante, J.D. Callen, K.C. Shaing & C.C. Hegna, August 7, 2005. (UW-CPTC 05-4.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 05-5: "Drift waves in helically symmetric stellarators" by T. Rafiq and C.C. Hegna, July 6, 2005. (UW-CPTC 05-5.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 05-6: "Numerical Studies of Magnetohydrodynamic Activity Resulting from Inductive Transients" by C.R. Sovinec, August 2005. (UW-CPTC 05-6.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 05-7_rev: "Sheared flow effects on ballooning instabilities in three-dimensional equilibria" by C.C. Hegna, revised September 14, 2005. (UW-CPTC 05-7_rev.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 05-8: "Final Report on the OFES ELM Milestone for FY2005" by D.P. Brennan, E.D. Held, S.E. Kruger, A.Y. Pankin, D.D. Schnack and C.R. Sovinec, September 30, 2005. (UW-CPTC 05-8.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 05-9: "Resistive Ballooning Modes In HSX?" by J.D. Callen, October 11, 2005. (UW-CPTC 05-9.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 05-10: "Nonlinear Growth of a Line-tied g-Mode Near Marginal Stability" by P. Zhu, C.C. Hegna and C.R. Sovinec, December 2005. (UW-CPTC 05-10.pdf)




          • UW-CPTC 04-1_rev2: "Most Electron Heat Transport Is Not Anomalous; It's A Paleoclassical Process In Toroidal Plasmas" by J.D. Callen, second revision October 25, 2004. (UW-CPTC 04-1_rev2.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 04-2: "Stabilization of Line Tied Resistive Wall Kink Modes with Rotating Walls" by C.C. Hegna, April 14, 2004. (UW-CPTC 04-2.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 04-3_rev3: "Paleoclassical Transport In Low Collisionality Toroidal Plasmas" by J.D. Callen, third revision June 30, 2005. (UW-CPTC 04-3_rev3.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 04-4: "Compressibility effect on magnetic-shear-localized ideal magnetohydrodynamic interchange instability" by Sangeeta Gupta, J.D. Callen and C.C. Hegna, July 8, 2004. (UW-CPTC 04-4.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 04-5: "Perturbing Ideal Magnetohydrodynamic Stability for Toroidal Plasmas" by Kate Comer, August 2004. (UW-CPTC 04-5.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 04-6: "Time-dependent neoclassical viscosity" by A.L. Garcia-Perciante, J.D. Callen, K.C. Shaing and C.C. Hegna, October 4, 2004. (UW-CPTC 04-6.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 04-7: "Numerical Investigation of Transients in the SSPX Spheromak" by C.R. Sovinec, B.I. Cohen, G.A. Cone, E.B. Hooper and H.S. McLean, October 2004. (UW-CPTC 04-7.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 04-8_rev: "Paleoclassical Electron Heat Transport" by J.D. Callen, revised October 2004. (UW-CPTC 04-8_rev.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 04-9_rev: "Paleoclassical electron heat transport" by J.D. Callen, revised June 30, 2005. (UW-CPTC 04-9_rev.pdf)




          • UW-CPTC 03-1: "Magnetic Island Effects on Axisymmetric Equilibria" by X. Liu, J.D. Callen and C.C. Hegna, December 2003. (UW-CPTC 03-1.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 03-2: "Hybrid Kinetic-MHS Simulations in General Geometry" by Charlson C. Kim, Carl R. Sovinec and Scott E. Parker, November 19, 2003. (UW-CPTC 03-2.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 03-3: "Time-Dependent Neoclassical Viscosity" by A.L. Garcia-Perciante, December 19, 2003. (UW-CPTC 03-3.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 03-4_rev: "Role of Bumpy Fields on Single Particle Orbit in near Quasi-Helically Symmetric Stellarators" by JaeChun Seol and C.C. Hegna, revised April 2004. (UW-CPTC 03-4_rev.pdf)


          • UW-CPTC 03-5: "Linear Resistive Layer Equations in the Presence of Sheared Torodial Rotation" by C.C. Hegna, December 2003. (UW-CPTC 03-5.pdf)


            • EP Dept Colloquium Info

            • March 13, 2008: "Investigations of Turbulence Dynamics in Tokamak Plasmas" by George McKee, University of Wisconsin-Madison. (abstract.pdf)


              • Special EP Dept Colloquium Info

              • February 25, 2008: 'Nuclear Fusion and the Control of Magnetohydrodynamic "Tearing" Instabilities' by Francesco Volpe, General Atomics, San Diego. (abstract.pdf)


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