Plasma turbulence: Conceptual foundations and applications
Gyrokinetics and gyrofluids: Theory and simulation
Literate Programming. Author of FWEB; see
fweb_toc.
PH.D. THESES SUPERVISED:
Kleva, Robert G.
``Aspects of the statistical theory of stochastic magnetic fields: Test
particle transport and turbulent collisionless tearing mode''
(October, 1979).
Similon, Philippe.
``A renormalized theory of drift wave turbulence in sheared magnetic fields''
(August, 1981).
Kotschenreuther, Michael T.
``The effect of small-scale fluctuations on several plasma processes''
(January, 1983). (Supervised jointly with C. Oberman.)
Dubin, Daniel H. E.
``Perturbation methods and closure approximations in nonlinear systems''
(April, 1984). (Supervised jointly with C. Oberman.)
Smith, Ralph A.
``Aspects of turbulent transport in a bounded plasma''
(October, 1986).
Kim, Chang-Bae.
``Bounds on transport in turbulent plasmas''
(July, 1989).
Bowman, John.
``Realizable Markovian Statistical Closures: General Theory and
Application to Drift-wave Turbulence''
(January, 1993).
Hu, Genze.
``Statistical Theory of Resistive Drift-wave
Turbulence and Transport''
(November, 1995).
Kolesnikov, Roman.
``Bifurcation Theory of Ion-Temperature-Gradient-Driven Modes''
(expected Spring, 2005)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS (examples):
J. A. Krommes and G. Hu,"General theory of Onsager symmetries for perturbations of
equilibrium and nonequilibrium steady states," Phys. Fluids B, Vol. 5,
3908 (1993).
G. Hu and J. A. Krommes, "Generalized weighting scheme for $\delta f$
particle-simulation method," Phys. Plasmas, Vol. 1,
863 (1994).
J. A. Krommes and G. Hu,"The role of dissipation in simulations
of homogeneous plasma turbulence, and resolution of the entropy paradox,"
Phys. Plasmas, Vol. 1, 3211 (1994).
J. A. Krommes, "Non-Gaussian statistics, classical field theory,
and realizable Langevin models," Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 53, 4865 (1996).
J. A. Krommes, "Self-organized criticality, long-time correlations, and
the standard transport paradigm," Phys. Plasmas, Vol. 7,
1752 (2000).
J. A. Krommes and C.-B. Kim, "Interactions of disparate scales in
drift-wave turbulence," Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 62, 8508 (2000).
J. A. Krommes, "Fundamental statistical theories of plasma turbulence in
magnetic fields," Phys. Reports, Vol. 360, 1-351 (2002).
J. A. Krommes and S. Rath, "Monte Carlo sampling of
negative-temperature states, with application to nonlinear gyrokinetic
plasma simulations," Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 67, 066402 (2003).
J. A. Krommes and R. A. Kolesnikov, "Hamiltonian description of
zonal-flow generation," Phys. Plasmas, Vol. 11, L29 (2004).