Prof. VENKATESWARARAO Alapati
Ph.D., Princeton University
F.R.S., F.R.Eng., J.C. Maxwell.,
Cavendish Professor of Physics
PPPL ASTROPHYSICAL SCIENCES Princeton USA
ENGINEERING DESIGN CENTRE
University of Cambridge UK
ITER France
St. Paul lez Durance Cadarache France
Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge UK
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Princeton Program in Plasma Physics
Research
Computational Plasma Physics
As the capabilities of high-performance computers advance, the types of problems addressable via computation changes. A single simulation is able to simulate a longer period of time and study phenomena at more space scales. To realize this speedup, code must be able to run efficiently using many processors simultaneously. RF codes, micro-turbulence codes, extended-MHD codes, and transport codes are used to address different phenomena in magnetic confinement. Computational plasma physics theses from program graduates have included work that:
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Solves a new set of (approximate) equations that describe some physical phenomena of interest
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Solves an existing set of equations with an improved algorithm and faster computer to study an increased range of time and space scales
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Builds on an existing code and uses it to perform new physics studies and validation with experiment
Areas of computational research include:
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Gyrokinetic and magnetohydrodynamic simulations of fusion plasmas(Link is external)
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Simulation of extended magnetohydrodynamic models(Link is external)
Read more..
https://plasma.princeton.edu/research
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1911/wien/facts/
Jim Peebles at Berkeley who won
2019 Nobel Prize for Physics
Berkeley Physics Course Volumes 1 - 5
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Academy of Sciences
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics Course Vol. 1 - 10
Astrofundamentals
Extreme Universe Laboratory
Research input for more satisfaction
1. The Acceleration of the Expansion of the Universe: A Brief Early History of the Supernova Cosmology Project (SCP), Gerson Goldhaber (Talk, Feb. 20, 2008).
2. Accelerating Expansion of the Universe ? The Friedman Universe, Sec. 8, PP G-20 Seeing the Big bang: Exploring Black holes, Introduction to General Relativity, Project G, Edwin F. Taylor and John Archibald Wheeler (2000).