1. Accelerators and Beams
2. Basic Plasma Theory and Simulation
3. Dusty Plasmas
4. Fusion Science
5. Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
6. Plasma Diagnostics
7. Space Plasmas

Accelerators and Beams

Bruhwiler, D. L., T. Antonsen, J. R. Cary, J. Cooley, V. K. Decyk, E. Esarey, C. G. R. Geddes, C. Huang, A. Hakim, T. Katsouleas, P. Messmer, W. B. Mori, F. S. Tsung, J. Vieira and M. Zhou, “Towards the petascale in electromagnetic modeling of plasma-based accelerators for high-energy physics,” SciDAC 2006, J. Physics: Conf. Series 46, 215 (2006).

Basic Plasma Theory and Simulation

Cary, J. R., D. Abell, J. Amundson, D. L. Bruhwiler, R. Busby, J. A. Carlsson, D. A. Dimitrov, E. Kashdan, P. Messmer, C. Nieter, D. N. Smithe, P. Spentzouris, P. Stoltz, R. M. Trines, H. Wang, and G. R. Werner, “Petascale self-consistent electromagnetic computations using scalable and accurate algorithms for complex structures,” SciDAC 2006, J. Physics: Conf. Series 46, 200 (2006).

Chen, Y., S. Parker, and J. Lang, “Arbitrary plasma shape and trapped electron modes in the GEM gyrokinetic electromagnetic turbulence simulation code,” Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 46, 92-96 (2006).

Fedoov, A. V., D. L. Bruhwiler, A. O. Sidorin, D. T. Abell, I. Ben-Zvi, R. Busby, J. R. Cary, and V. N. Litvinenko, “Numerical Study of the Magnetized Friction Force,” Phys. Rev. ST/AB 9, 074401 (2006).

Lin, Z., L. Chen, I. Holod, Y. Nishimura, H. Qu, S. Ethier, G. Rewoldt, W. X. Wang, Y. Chen, J. Kohut, and S. Parker, “Electron transport driven by short wavelength trapped electron mode turbulence,” in Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research (Chengdu, Oct. 15-20,China, 2006) (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, 2006). Paper IAEA-CN-138/TH/P2-8 (http://www-naweb.iaea.org/napc/physics/fec/
fec2006/papers/th_p2-8.pdf).

Parker, S., J. Kohut, Y. Chen, Z. Lin, F. Hinton, and W. Lee, “Fine-scale zonal fl ow suppression of electron temperature gradient turbulence,” AIP Conference Proceedings 871, 193-203, (2006). Xiang, N., J. R. Cary, D. C. Barnes, and J. A. Carlsson, “Low-noise electromagnetic delta-f particle-in-cell simulation of electron Bernstein waves,” Phys. Plasmas 13, 062111 (2006).

Dusty Plasmas

Colwell, J. E., S. R. Robertson, M. Horányi, X. Wang, and P. Wheeler, “Charged Dust Dynamics Near the Lunar Surface,” Earth & Space 2006 Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments Proceedings of the Tenth Biennial ASCE Aerospace Division International Conference on Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments 188, 24 (2006). Ramesh B. Malla, Wieslaw K. Binienda, Arup K. Maji - Editors, March 5–8, 2006, League City/Houston, Texas, USA.

Krauss, C. E., M. Horányi, and S. Robertson, “Modeling the formation of electrostatic discharges on Mars,” J. Geophys. Res. 111, E02001, doi:10.1029/ 2004JE002313 (2006), 8 pages.

Smiley, B., M. Rapp, T.A. Blix, S. Robertson, M. Horányi, R. Latteck and J. Fiedler, “The charge and size distribution of mesospheric aerosol particles measured inside NLC and PMSE during MIDAS MacWAVE2002,” Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics 68, 114-123.

Fusion Science

Candy, J., R. Waltz, S. Parker, and Y. Chen, “Relevance of the parallel nonlinearity in gyrokinetic simulations of tokamak plasmas,” Phys. Plasmas, 13, 074501 (2006).

Chang, C. S., Ku, S., Adams M., D’Azevedo, G., Chen, Y., Cummings, J., Ethier, Greengard, S., L., Hahm, T. S., Hinton, F., Keyes, D., Klasky, S., Lee, W.W., Lin, Z., Nishimura, Y., Parker, S., Samtaney, R., Stotler, D., Weitzner, H., Worley, P., Zorin, D., and the CPES Team, “Integrated particle simulation of neoclassical and turbulence physics in the tokamak pedestal/edge region using XGC,” in Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research (Chengdu, China, Oct. 15-20, 2006) (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, 2006), Paper IAEA-CN-138/TH/P6-14. (http://www-naweb.iaea.org/napc/physics/ fec/fec2006/papers/th_p6-14.pdf)

Gates, D. A., C. Kessel, J. Menard, G. Taylor, J. R. Wilson, M. G. Bell, R. E. Bell, S. Bernabei, J. Bialek, T. Biewer, W. Blanchard, J. Boedo, C. Bush, M. D. Carter, W. Choe, N. Crocker, D. S. Darrow, W. Davis, L. Delgado-Aparicio, S. Diem, J. Ferron, A. Field, J. Foley, E. D. Fredrickson, T. Gibney, R. Harvey, R. E. Hatcher, W. Heidbrink, K. Hill, J. C. Hosea, T. R. Jarboe, D. W. Johnson, R. Kaita, S. Kaye, S. Kubota, H. W. Kugel, J. Lawson, B. P. LeBlanc, K. C. Lee, F. Levinton, R. Maingi, J. Manickam, R. Maqueda, R. Marsala, D. Mastrovito, T. K. Mau, S. S. Medley, H. Meyer, D. R. Mikkelsen, D. Mueller, T. Munsat, B. A. Nelson, C. Neumeyer, N. Nishino, M. Ono, H. Park, W. Park, S. Paul, T. Peebles, M. Peng, C. Phillips, A. Pigarov, R. Pinsker, A. Ram, S. Ramakrishnan, R. Raman, D. Rasmussen, M. Redi, M. Rensink, G. Rewoldt, J. Robinson, P. Roney, L. Roquemore, E. Ruskov, P. Ryan, S. A. Sabbagh, H. Schneider, C. H. Skinner, D.R. Smith, A. Sontag, V. Soukhanovskii, T. Stevenson, D. Stotler, B. Stratton, D. Stutman, D. Swain, E. Synakowski, Y. Takase, K. Tritz, A. von Halle, M. Wade, R. White, J. Wilgen, M. Williams, W. Zhu, S. J. Zweben, R. Akers, P. Beiersdorfer, R. Betti and T. Bigelow, “Progress towards steady state on NSTX,” Nucl. Fusion 46(3) S22-S28 (2006).

Gates, D. A., R. Maingi, J. Menard, S. Kaye, S. A. Sabbagh, G. Taylor, J. R. Wilson, M. G. Bell, R. E. Bell, S. Bernabei, J. Bialek, T. Biewer, W. Blanchard, J. Boedo, C. Bush, M. D. Carter, W. Choe, N. Crocker, D. S. Darrow, W. Davis, L. Delgado-Aparicio, S. Diem, J. Ferron, A. Field, J. Foley, E. D. Fredrickson, R. Harvey, R. E. Hatcher, W. Heidbrink, K. Hill, J. C. Hosea, T. R. Jarboe, D. W. Johnson, R. Kaita, C. Kessel, S. Kubota, H. W. Kugel, J. Lawson, B. P. LeBlanc, K. C. Lee, F. Levinton, J. Manickam, R. Maqueda, R. Marsala, D. Mastrovito, T. K. Mau, S. S. Medley, H. Meyer, D. R. Mikkelsen, D. Mueller, T. Munsat, B. A. Nelson, C. Neumeyer, N. Nishino, M. Ono, H. Park, W. Park, S. Paul, W. Peebles, M. Peng, C. Phillips, A. Pigarov, R. Pinsker, A. Ram, S. Ramakrishnan, R. Raman, D. Rasmussen, M. Redi, M. Rensink, G. Rewoldt, J. Robinson, P. Roney, L. Roquemore, E. Ruskov, P. Ryan, H. Schneider, C. H. Skinner, D. R. Smith, A. Sontag, V. Soukhanovskii, T. Stevenson, D. Stotler, B. Stratton, D. Stutman, D. Swain, E. Synakowski, Y. Takase, K. Tritz, A. von Halle, M. Wade, R. White, J. Wilgen, M. Williams, W. Zhu, S. J. Zweben, R. Akers, P. Beiersdorfer, R. Betti, and T. Bigelow, “Effect of plasma shaping on performance in the national spherical torus experiment,” Phys. Plasmas 13(5) 056122 (2006).

Ku, S., C.-S. Chang, M. Adams, J. Cummings, F. Hinton, D. Keyes, S. Klasky, W. Lee, Z. Lin, S. Parker, and the CPES team, in SciDAC2006, “Gyrokinetic particle simulation of neoclassical transport in the pedestal/scrape-off region of a tokamak plasma,” Journal of Physics: Conference Series 46, 87-91 (2006).

Lee, W. W., S. Ethier, T. G. Jenkins, W. X. Wang, J. L. V. Lewandowski, G. Rewoldt, and W. M. Tang, S. E. Parker, Y. Chen, and Z. Lin, “Long time simulations of microturbulence in fusion plasmas,” in Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research (Chengdu, China, Oct. 15-20, 2006) (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, 2006). Paper IAEA-CN-138/TH/2-6Rb (http://www-naweb.iaea.org/napc/physics/ fec/fec2006/papers/th_p2-6rb.pdf)

Park, H.K., N. C. Luhmann, Jr., A. J. H. Donné, I. G. J. Classen, C. W. Domier, E. Mazzucato, T. Munsat, M. J. van de Pol, Z. Xia, and the TEXTOR team. “Observation of high-fi eld-side crash and heat transfer during sawtooth oscillation in magnetically confined plasmas,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 96(19) 195003 (2006).

Park, H. K., A. J. H. Donné, N. C. Luhmann, Jr., I. G. J. Classen, C. W. Domier, E. Mazzucato, T. Munsat, M. J. van de Pol, Z. Xia, and the TEXTOR Team, “Comparison study of 2D images of temperature fluctuations during sawtooth oscillation with theoretical models,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 96(19) 195004 (2006).

Robertson, S. “A radially resolved kinetic model for nonlocal electron ripple diffusion losses in tokamaks,” Physics of Plasmas 13, 092306 (10 pages) (2006).

Zweben, S. J., R. J. Maqueda, J. L. Terry, T. Munsat, J. R. Myra, D. D’Ippolito, D. A. Russell, J. A. Krommes, B. LeBlanc, T. Stoltzfus-Dueck, D. P. Stotler, K. M. Williams, C. E. Bush, R. Maingi, O. Grulke, S. A. Sabbagh, and A. E. White, “Structure and motion of edge turbulence in the national spherical torus experiment and alcator C-mod,” Phys. Plasmas 13(5) 056114 (2006).

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

Dullin, H. R., A.V. Ivanov, and J. D. Meiss, “Normal forms for 4D Symplectic Maps with Twist Singularities,” Physica D 215 175-190 (2006).

Gonchenko, S. V., J. D. Meiss, and I. I. Ovsyannikov, “Chaotic dynamics of three-dimensional Henon maps that originate from a homoclinic bifurcation,” Regular and Chaotic Dynamics 11(2) 191-212 (2006).

Howard, J. E., “Global Invariants for Variable Mass Systems,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 164302 (2006).

Wysham, D. B. and J. D. Meiss, “Iterative Techniques for Computing Linearized of Quasiperiodic Tori,” Chaos 16 023129 (2006).

Plasma Diagnostics

Knappmiller, S., S. Robertson, and Z. Sternovsky, “Method to find the electron distribution function from cylindrical probe data,” Physical Review E 73, 066402 (9 pages) (2006).

Knappmiller, S., S. Robertson, and Z. Sternovsky, “Comparison of Two Microwave and Two Probe Methods for Measuring Plasma Density,” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 34(3), 786-791, (June 2006).

Park, H. K., E. Mazzucato, N. C. Luhmann, Jr., C. W. Domier, Z. Xia, T. Munsat, A. J. H. Donné, I. G. J. Classen, M. J. van de Pol, and TEXTOR team, “Self-organized Te redistribution during driven reconnection processes in high-temperature plasmas,” Phys. Plasmas 13(5) 055907 (2006).

Robertson, S., S. Knappmiller, and Z. Sternovsky, “Energy balance and plasma potential in low-density hot-fi lament discharges,” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 34(3), 844-849, (June 2006).

Severn, G. D., X. Wang, Eunsuk Ko, N. Hershkowitz, M. M. Turner, and R. McWilliams, “Ion flow and sheath physics studies in multiple ion species plasmas using diode laser based laser-induced fluorescence,” Thin Solid Films 506-507, 674 (2006).

Sternovsky, Z. and S. Robertson, “Numerical solutions to the weakly collisional plasma and sheath in the fluid approach and the reduction of the ion current to the wall,” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Sci. 34(3), 850-854 (June 2006).

Wang, X. and N. Hershkowitz, “Experimental Studies of the Two-Ion Species Flow in the Plasma Presheath,” Phys. Plasmas 13, 053503 (2006).

Wang, X. and N. Hershkowitz, “A simple way to determine the edge of an electron-free sheath with an emissive probe,” Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77, 043507 (2006).

Space Plasmas

Main, D. S., D. L. Newman, and R. E. Ergun, “Double Layers and Ion Phase-Space Holes in the Auroral Upward Current Region,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 97, 185001:1-4 (2006).

Su, Y., S. Jones, R. Ergun, F. Bagenal, S. Parker, P. Delamere, and R. Lysak, Io-Jupiter interaction: Alfvén wave propagation and ionospheric Alfvén resonator,” J. Geophys. Res., A06211 111, doi:10.1029/ 2005JA011252 (2006).