Zhihong Lin

 

Professor of Physics and Astronomy

University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA

Tel: 949-824-2717; Email: zhihongl@uci.edu

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My research group studies instability, turbulence, and transport in laboratory and space plasmas. First-principles massively parallel simulations (using GTC code) and associated theory have led to physics discovery in turbulence self-regulation by zonal flows, transport scaling, and wave-particle decorrelation in plasma turbulence. I am leading a multi-institutional U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) SciDAC project (GSEP Center) in support of burning plasma experiment ITER, the crucial next step in the quest for fusion energy.

 

 

All publications are available on Google Scholars                                                                      

Selected Recent Publications:

·       Verification of gyrokinetic particle simulation of current-driven instability in fusion plasmas. I. Internal kink mode, J. McClenaghan, Z. Lin, I. Holod, W. Deng, and Z. Wang, Phys. Plasmas 21, 122519 (2014).

·       Verification of Gyrokinetic Particle Simulation of Current-driven Instability in Fusion Plasmas. II. Resistive Tearing Mode, Dongjian Liu, Wenlu Zhang, Joseph McClenaghan, Jiaqi Wang, Zhihong Lin, Phys. Plasmas 21, 122520 (2014).

·       Effects of magnetic islands on drift wave instability, P. Jiang, Z. Lin, I. Holod, and C. Xiao, Phys. Plasmas 21, 122513 (2014).

·       Particle simulation of lower hybrid wave propagation in fusion plasmas, J. Bao, Z. Lin, A. Kuley, and Z. X. Lu, Plasma Phys. Contr. Fusion 56, 095020 (2014).

·        Microturbulence in DIII-D Tokamak Pedestal. I. Electrostatic Instabilities, D. Fulton, Z. Lin, I. Holod, and Y. Xiao, Phys. Plasmas 21, 042110 (2014).

·        Radial Localization of Toroidicity-Induced Alfven Eigenmodes, Zhixuan Wang, Zhihong Lin, Ihor Holod, W. W. Heidbrink, Benjamin Tobias, Michael Van Zeeland, and M. E. Austin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 145003 (2013).

·        Nonlinear generation of zonal fields by the beta-induced Alfven eigenmode in tokamak, H. S. Zhang and Z. Lin, Plasma Sci. Technol. 15, 969 (2013).

·        Verification of particle simulation of radio frequency waves in fusion plasmas, A. Kuley, Z. X. Wang, Z. Lin, and F. Wessel, Phys. Plasmas 20, 102515 (2013).

·       Does the orbit-averaged theory require a scale separation between periodic orbit size and perturbation correlation length? Wenlu Zhang and Zhihong Lin, Phys. Plasmas 20, 102306 (2013).

·        GTC simulation of ideal ballooning mode in tokamak plasmas, Z. Li, G. Sun, I. Holod, Y. Xiao, W. Zhang, and Z. Lin, Plasma Sci. Technol. 15, 499 (2013).

·        Comparison of toroidicity-induced Alfven eigenmodes and energetic particle modes by gyrokinetic particle simulations, Chenxi Zhang, Wenlu Zhang, Zhihong Lin, Ding Li, Phys. Plasmas 20, 052501 (2013).

·        Verification of Electromagnetic Fluid-Kinetic Hybrid Electron Model in Global Gyrokinetic Particle Simulation, I. Holod and Z. Lin, Phys. Plasmas 20, 032309 (2013).

·        Nonlinear dynamics of beta-induced Alfven eigenmode in tokamak, H. S. Zhang, Z. Lin, W. Deng, I. Holod, Z. X. Wang, Y. Xiao, W. L. Zhang, Phys. Plasmas 20, 012510 (2013).

·        Nonlinear Frequency Oscillation of Alfven Eigenmodes in Fusion Plasmas, H. S. Zhang, Z. Lin, and I. Holod, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 025001 (2012).

·        Verification of Gyrokinetic Particle Simulation of Device Size Scaling of Turbulent Transport, Z. H. Lin, S. Ethier, T. S. Hahm, and W. M. Tang, Plasma Sci. Technol. 14, 1125 (2012).