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20202026
most citedEffect of the neutral beam injector operational regime on the Alfven eigenmode saturation phase in DIII-D plasma

13 citations · 27 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

physics.plasm-ph2026

A Pre-trained Variational Autoencoder for Gyrokinetic Plasma Turbulence Surrogate Modeling

Minglei Yang, Marshall Nicholson, Diego Del-Castillo-Negrete +2

Machine learning surrogate models offer a promising path toward accelerating plasma turbulence simulations. We present PreVAE-Turb, a surrogate modeling framework that leverages pr…

math.NA2026

An efficient probabilistic scheme for the exit time probability of -stable Lévy process

Minglei Yang, Diego del-Castillo-Negrete, Guannan Zhang

The α-stable Lévy process, commonly used to describe Lévy flight, is characterized by discontinuous jumps and is widely used to model anomalous transport phenomena. In this study,…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Runaway electron interactions with whistler waves in tokamak plasmas: energy-dependent transport scaling

Yashika Ghai, D. Del-Castillo-Negrete, D. A. Spong +1

Resonant interactions between high energy runaway electrons (REs) and whistler waves are a promising mechanism for RE mitigation in tokamak plasmas. While prior studies have largel…

stat.ML2025

Generative AI Models for Learning Flow Maps of Stochastic Dynamical Systems in Bounded Domains

Minglei Yang, Yanfang Liu, Diego del-Castillo-Negrete +2

Simulating stochastic differential equations (SDEs) in bounded domains, presents significant computational challenges due to particle exit phenomena, which requires accurate modeli…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 13 cited

Effect of the neutral beam injector operational regime on the Alfven eigenmode saturation phase in DIII-D plasma

J Varela, D A Spong, L Garcia +11

The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of the neutral beam injector (NBI) operation regime on the saturation phase of the Alfven Eigenmodes (AEs) in DIII-D plasma. The anal…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 2 cited

Off-axis runaway-electron seed formation, growth and suppression

L. F. Delgado-Aparicio, D. Del-Castillo-Negrete, N. C. Hurst +11

Novel x-ray detection technology enabled the first profile measurements of the birth and growth dynamics of runaway electrons (REs) at the edge of tokamaks during quiescent RE stud…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 12 cited

Spatially-dependent modeling and simulation of runaway electron mitigation in DIII-D

M. T. Beidler, D. del-Castillo-Negrete, L. R. Baylor +2

New simulations with the Kinetic Orbit Runaway electron (RE) Code KORC show RE deconfinement losses to the wall during plasma scrape off are the primary current dissipation mechani…