Welcome to Robert Budny's home page (http://w3.pppl.gov/~budny)

I am a Principal Research Physicist working in the Off-Site Collaborations Department
of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory of Princeton University
The Princeton Plasma Laboratory home page is www.pppl.gov
The Princeton University home page is www.princeton.edu

I conduct research developing controlled thermonuclear fusion in Tokamaks as a less polluting energy source

Much of my current research uses the TRANSP plasma analysis code and the GS2 and GYRO gyrokinetic microturbulence codes
The TRANSP homepage is w3.pppl.gov/transp
The GS2 homepage is gs2.sourceforge.net
The GYRO homepage is http://fusion.gat.com/comp/parallel/gyro.html

I have also been applying these codes to understand transport in JET, DIII-D, and JT-60U plasmas.
The JET-EFDA home page is: www.jet.efda.org
The DIII-D Experimental Physics home page is: http://physics.gat.com
The JT-60U home page is: http://www-jt60.naka.jaeri.go.jp/

Previously I collaborated on experiments in TFTR
See TFTR physics research

Some of my papers and presentations are:

• "Predictions of ITER performance using PTRANSP" (ITPA meeting, OakRidge, TN, April 24, 2008) (pdf file)
• "Predictions of H-mode performance in ITER" (Submitted for publication, Dec 2007) (pdf file)
• "Predictions of electron cyclotron current drive and heating in ITER" (Submitted for publication, Mar 2008) (pdf file)
• "Predictions of electron cyclotron current drive and heating in ITER" (Poster at EC-15, Yosemite, Mar 2008) (pdf file)
• "Testing gyrokinetic turbulence simulations" (Talk at University of Wisconsin, Madison, February 28, 2008) (pdf file)
• "Comparisons of simulations with transport and fluctuation measurements" (Talk for the APS meeting, Orlando, November 14, 2007) (pdf file)
• "The GYRO animation shown in APS talk" (Talk for the APS meeting, Orlando, November 14, 2007) (wmv file)
• "GYRO simulations of recent JET plasmas" (Talk at the JET annual TFT meeting, January 22-26, 2007) (pdf file)
• "GYRO simulations of momentum transport" (Talk at the JET annual TFT meeting, January 22-26, 2007) (pdf file)
• "Transport Physics of Hybrid Scenario Plasmas in the International Multi-Tokamak Database and Implications for ITER" (Poster at the 21th IAEA meeting, Chengdu, China, October 16-21, 2006) (pdf file)
• "Transport Physics of Hybrid Scenario Plasmas in the International Multi-Tokamak Database and Implications for ITER" (Paper for the 21th IAEA meeting, Chengdu, China, October 16-21, 2006) (pdf file)
• "Transport in H-mode and Hybrid scenario plasmas" (Talk at JET, Sep 11, 2006) (pdf file)
• "Time-dependent Integrated Predictive Modeling of ITER plasmas" (Talk at JET, July 3, 2006) (pdf file)
• "Core Thermal Ion Transport and Transport Simulation Issues" (Talk at the Burning Plasma Organization meeting Oak Ridge TN, Dec 8, 2005) (pdf file)
• "Methods for Moduling Burning Plasmas and Validation using TFTR and JET DT Plasmas" (Talk at the APS meeting Denver, CO, Oct, 2005) (pdf file)
• "Gyrokinetic Simulationf and Measurements of Transport and Density Fluctuations in a JT-60U Plasma with Box-like ITB" (Poster for H-mode and Transport Barrier Meeting, St. Perersburg, Russia, Sept, 2005) (pdf file)
• "Time-Dependent Integrated Moduling of Burning Plasmas" (Talk at the Kritz Fest Symposium on the future on integrated modeling, PPPL, July, 2005) (pdf file)
• "Time-Dependent Integrated Moduling of Burning Plasmas" (Talk for IAEA W60 meeting on Burning Plasma Physics Tarragona, Spain, June, 2005) (pdf file)
• "GYRO Simulations of Core Momentum Transport in DIII-D and JET Plasmas" (Poster for EPS meeting, Tarragona, Spain, June, 2005) (pdf file)
• "GYRO Simulations of Core Momentum Transport in DIII-D and JET Plasmas" (Paper for EPS meeting) Tarragona, Spain, June, 2005 (pdf file)
• "Preliminary GYRO Studies of Momentum Transport with two Ion Species" (Talk at ITPA Transport Working Group meeting) Kyoto, April, 2005 (pdf file)
• "Proposal for Submissions of New ITER Plasmas to the Profile Database" (Talk at ITPA Core Modeling and Data Base Working Group meeting, Kyoto, April, 2005) (pdf file)
• "Time-dependent Integrated Modeling of Burning Plasmas (Talk for the Transport Task Force meeting Napa, Cal, April, 2005) (pdf file)
• "Flow shear, Magnetic shear, and Shafranov shift effects on transport in DIII-D plasmas" (poster at the 46th APS meeting, Savannah, GA, Nov 15-19, 2004) (pdf file)
• "Time-dependent Integrated Modeling of AT, Hybrid, and ELMy H-mode plasmas in ITER" (talk at the ITPA meeting), Lisboa, Portugal, Nov 10, 2004: (pdf file)
• "Simulations of Microturbulence in JET and DIII-D plasmas" (talk at the 45th APS meeting, Albuquerque, NM, Oct 27-31, 2003) (pdf file)
• "Simulations of fast ion in ITER" (poster at the 8th IAEA Technical Meeting on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement at General Atomics, San Diego, CA, Oct 6-8, 2003) (pdf file)
• "Microturbulence, heat, and particle fluxes in JET and DIII-D plasmas with highly reversed magnetic shear" (talk at the 30th EPS conference, 5-8 July, 2003, Saint Petersburg, Russia) (pdf file)
• "Fusion alpha parameters in tokamaks with high DT fusion rates" (published in Nuclear Fusion, Vol 42 (2002) 1382-1392) (pdf file)
• "TRANSP simulations of International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor plasmas" (published in Physics of Plasmas, Vol 3 (1996) 4583-4593) (pdf file)
• "Simulations of Temperatures in Burning Tokamak Plasmas Using the GLF23 Model in the TRANSP Code"(2002) PPPL-3736 (pdf file)
• "Simulations of the neutral-beam-induced rotation, radial electric field, and flow shearing rate in next-step burning plasmas" (2002) PPPL-3737 (pdf file)
• "Microstability and Flow Shear Analysis in High Performance JET ITB Plasma" (published in Plasma Physics Controlled Fusion Vol 44 (2002), 1215-1228) (pdf file)
• "Local Physics Basis of Confinement Degradation in JET ELMy H-mode Plasmas and Implications for Tokamak Reactors" (published in Nuclear Fusion, Vol 42 (2002), 66-75) (pdf file)

Some of my previous publications in controlled thermonuclear fusion are:

• "Local transport in JET ELMy H-mode discharges with H, D, DT, and T isotopes" (published in Physics of Plasmas, Vol 7 (2000) p 5038-5050) (pdf file)
• "Comparison of Theory with Rotation Measurements in JET ICRH Plasmas" (presented at the 28th EPS conference, 18-22 June, 2001, Madeira, Portugal) (pdf file)
• "Comparison of RF-heated with NBI-heated ELMy H-mode Plasmas in JET" (presented at the APS conference, 23-27 October, 2000, Quebec City, Canada) (pdf file)
  
• "Simulations of alpha parameters in a TFTR DT supershot with high fusion power" (published in Nuclear Fusion, Vol 35 (1995) p 1497-1507) (pdf file)
• "A standard DT supershot simulations" (published in Nuclear Fusion, Vol 34 (1994) p 1247-1262) (pdf file)
• "Simulations of deuterium-tritium experiments in TFTR" (published in Nuclear Fusion, Vol 32 (1992) p 429-447) (pdf file)

I have collaborated on some other tokamaks such as Tore Supra

Several of my publications with G.T.Hoang et al. are:

• "Experimental Determination of Critical Threshold in Electron Transport in Tore Supra"
  (published in Physical Review Letters, Vol 87 (2001), p 4593-4596) (pdf file)
  

• "Internal Transport Barrier with Ion-Cyclorton-Resonance Minoraty Heating on Tore Supra"
  (published in Physical Review Letters, Vol 84 (2000), p4593-4596) (pdf file)
  

• "A H minority heating regime in Tore Supra showing improved L mode confinement"
  (published in Nuclear Physics, Vol 40 (2000), p913-921) (pdf file)
  

two of my publications with Q. Gao, et al., for the HL-2A tokamak are:

• "Predictive study of high performance scenarios in HL-2A tokamak"
  (published in Nuclear Fusion, Vol 43 (2003), p982) (pdf file)
  

• "Sustained reversed magnetic shear mode of operation in the HL-2A tokamak"
  (published in Nuclear Fusion, Vol 40 (2000), p1897-1906) (pdf file)
  

Some of my previous publications in Elementary Particle Theory are:

• "Manifest Left-Right Symmetry and its Experimental Consequences" (with M.A.B.Beg, R.Mohapatra, and A.Sirlin published in Physical Review Letters, Vol 38 (1977) p 1252-1255) (pdf file)
• "W0 effects in electron-positron collisions on 1- resonances" (published in Physical Review D, Vol 20 (1979) p 2763) (pdf file)

My work address is:
Plasma Physics Laboratory
Princeton University
PO Box 451
Princeton, NJ 08543-0451
E-mail: budny@princeton.edu
Phone: +1 609 243 2730
FAX: +1 609 243 3233

My interview about international collaborations in tokamak research is
DOE Pulse October, 1999

My interview about the shutdown of the TFTR tokamak is in:
CNN archive, April 5, 1997

An often rebroadcast recording of my interview on the National Public Radio, "CarTalk" is
(http://cartalk.cars.com/Radio/Show/Audio/200053/RA/s07.ram)
ram RealPlayer file

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