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most citedOn seed island generation and the non-linear self-consistent interaction of the tearing mode with electromagnetic gyro-kinetic turbulence

42 citations · 224 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

physics.plasm-ph2026

A Shortcut to Statistically Steady-State Turbulence with Flow Matching

Gianluca Galletti, Gerald Gutenbrunner, William Hornsby +5

Many nonlinear physical systems exhibit an initial transient phase in which perturbations grow before nonlinear interactions lead to a statistically steady state. While this satura…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Physics-Informed Neural Compression of High-Dimensional Plasma Data

Gianluca Galletti, Gerald Gutenbrunner, Sandeep S. Cranganore +6

High-fidelity scientific simulations are now producing unprecedented amounts of data, creating a storage and analysis bottleneck. A single simulation can generate tremendous data v…

physics.plasm-ph2025

GyroSwin: 5D Surrogates for Gyrokinetic Plasma Turbulence Simulations

Fabian Paischer, Gianluca Galletti, William Hornsby +5

Nuclear fusion plays a pivotal role in the quest for reliable and sustainable energy production. A major roadblock to viable fusion power is understanding plasma turbulence, which…

cs.DC2025

A Performance Analysis of Task Scheduling for UQ Workflows on HPC Systems

Chung Ming Loi, Anne Reinarz, Mikkel Lykkegaard +3

Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) workloads are becoming increasingly common in science and engineering. They involve the submission of thousands or even millions of similar tasks wi…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 1 cited

5D Neural Surrogates for Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Simulations of Plasma Turbulence

Gianluca Galletti, Fabian Paischer, Paul Setinek +5

Nuclear fusion plays a pivotal role in the quest for reliable and sustainable energy production. A major roadblock to achieving commercially viable fusion power is understanding pl…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Gaussian process surrogate models for the properties of micro-tearing modes in spherical tokamaks

William Hornsby, Ander Gray, James Buchanan +9

Spherical tokamaks (STs) have many desirable features that make them a suitable choice for fusion power plants. To understand their confinement properties, accurate calculation of…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 3 cited

Gaussian Process Regression models for the properties of micro-tearing modes in spherical tokamak

William Hornsby, Ander Gray, James Buchanan +9

Spherical tokamaks (STs) have many desirable features that make them an attractive choice for a future fusion power plant. Power plant viability is intrinsically related to plasma…

physics.plasm-ph2023

ReMKiT1D -- A framework for building reactive multi-fluid models of the tokamak Scrape-Off Layer with coupled electron kinetics in 1D

Stefan Mijin, Dominic Power, Ryan Holden +3

In this manuscript we present the recently developed flexible framework for building both fluid and electron kinetic models of the tokamak Scrape-Off Layer in 1D - ReMKiT1D (Reacti…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 29 cited

Electromagnetic gyrokinetic instabilities in STEP

Daniel Kennedy, Maurizio Giacomin, Francis J Casson +4

We present herein the results of a linear gyrokinetic analysis of electromagnetic microinstabilites in the conceptual high-, reactor-scale, tight-aspect-ratio tokamak STEP (Sphe…

physics.plasm-ph2018★ 35 cited

Global gyrokinetic simulations of intrinsic rotation in ASDEX Upgrade Ohmic L-mode plasmas

W. A. Hornsby, C. Angioni, Z. X. Lu +6

Non-linear, radially global, turbulence simulations of ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) plasmas are performed and the nonlinear generated intrinsic flow shows agreement with the intrinsic flow…

physics.plasm-ph2014★ 42 cited

On seed island generation and the non-linear self-consistent interaction of the tearing mode with electromagnetic gyro-kinetic turbulence

William Hornsby, Pierluigi Migliano, Rico Buchholz +4

The multi-scale interaction of self-consistently driven magnetic islands with electromagnetic turbulence is studied within the three dimensional, toroidal gyro-kinetic framework. I…

physics.plasm-ph2014★ 3 cited

On the radial propagation of turbulence in gyro-kinetic toroidal systems

P. Migliano, R. Buchholz, S. R. Grosshauser +2

In this paper a conservation equation is derived for the radially dependent entropy in toroidal geometry using the local approximation of the gyro-kinetic framework. This equation…

physics.plasm-ph2014★ 28 cited

The linear tearing instability in three dimensional, toroidal gyrokinetic simulations

William Hornsby, Pierluigi Migliano, Rico Bucholz +5

Linear gyro-kinetic simulations of the classical tearing mode in three-dimensional toroidal geometry were performed using the global gyro kinetic turbulence code, GKW . The results…

physics.plasm-ph2014★ 1 cited

Nonlinear seed island generation by three-dimensional electromagnetic, gyrokinetic turbulence

William Hornsby, Pierluigi Migliano, Rico Buchholz +4

Turbulence is shown to be critical to the onset and evolution of the neoclassical tearing mode, affecting both its growth and rotation. The interaction is here studied for the firs…

physics.plasm-ph2013★ 8 cited

Analysis of Lithium Driven Electron Density Peaking in FTU Liquid Lithium Limiter Experiments

G. Szepesi, M. Romanelli, F. Militello +7

The impact of lithium impurities on the microstability and turbulent transport characteristics in the core of a typical FTU Liquid Lithium Limiter (LLL)(Mazzitelli et al., Nucl. Fu…

physics.plasm-ph2013★ 27 cited

Toroidal momentum transport in a tokamak caused by symmetry breaking parallel derivatives

Tobias Sung, Rico Buchholz, Francis Casson +5

A new mechanism for toroidal momentum transport in a tokamak is investigated using the gyro-kinetic model. First, an analytic model is developed through the use of the ballooning t…

physics.plasm-ph2012★ 16 cited

Ion temperature gradient instability at sub-Larmor radius scales with non-zero ballooning angle

Pierluigi Migliano, Yann Camenen, Francis Casson +2

Linear gyro-kinetic stability calculations predict unstable toroidal Ion Temperature Gradient modes with normalised poloidal wave vectors well above one () for standard…

physics.plasm-ph2011★ 31 cited

On the dynamics of vortex modes within magnetic islands

William Hornsby, Arthur Peeters, Mattia Siccinio +1

Recent work investigating the interaction of magnetic islands with micro-turbulence has uncovered the striking observation of large scale vortex modes forming within the island str…