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.
Selected
Recent Publications:
·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).
- Linear properties
of reversed shear Alfven eigenmodes in DIII-D tokamak, W. Deng,
Z. Lin, I. Holod, Z. Wang, Y. Xiao, and H. Zhang, Nuclear Fusion 52, 043006 (2012).
- Turbulent Transport
of Toroidal Angular Momentum in Fusion Plasmas, I. Holod,
Z. Lin, and Y. Xiao, Phys. Plasmas 19, 012314 (2012).
Highly
Cited (>100 citations by SCI):
1.
Turbulent Transport
Reduction by Zonal Flows: Massively Parallel Simulations, Z. Lin, T. S. Hahm, W. W. Lee, W. M. Tang, and R. B. White, Science 281, 1835 (1998).
2.
Effects of Collisional
Zonal Flow Damping on Turbulent Transport, Z. Lin, T. S. Hahm, W. W. Lee, W. M. Tang, and P. H. Diamond, Phys. Rev. Lett.
83, 3645 (1999).
3.
Shearing rate of
time-dependent E X B flow, T. S. Hahm,
M. A. Beer, Z. Lin, G. W. Hammett, W. W. Lee, and W. M. Tang, Phys. Plasmas 6, 922 (1999).
4.
Excitation of zonal flow
by drift waves in toroidal plasmas, Liu Chen, Zhihong
Lin, and Roscoe White, Phys. Plasmas 7, 3129 (2000).
5.
Size Scaling of Turbulent
Transport in Magnetically Confined Plasmas, Z. Lin, T. S. Hahm, S. Ethier, and W. M. Tang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 195004 (2002).