Fun pictures and animations of
computer simulations of plasma turbulence
Fun pictures and animations of
computer simulations of plasma turbulence
I am a Principal Research Physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (Room A137), a Lecturer With Rank of Professor in the Graduate Program in Plasma Physics at Princeton University, and a 1997 Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Gregory W. Hammett <hammett@pppl.gov>
+1-609-243-2495 fax:-2662
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory MS27
P.O. Box 451
Princeton, NJ 08543
Personal web page at
Princeton University.
"Gyrokinetic Theory and Simulations of Experiments", G. W. Hammett, review talk, 2007 APS Division of Plasma Physics Annual Meeting, Orlando, Nov. 12-16.
Don't count out the old physicists.
"Current Status of Fusion Energy Research & Related Plasma Turbulence Studies", G.W. Hammett, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics", U.C. Santa Barbara, May 19, 2005. WebCam & Audio. This talk has a broad introduction aimed at physicists outside of fusion energy research.
Fusion Energy and Plasma Physics References
The FIRE Place fusion news,
library, etc.
Computers, General Scientific Computing.
Declaration of Principles for
scholars.
Ten Great Unsolved
Problems in Physics (including Fusion Energy and Turbulence)
Interesting quotes from
Feynman and others, on the challenge of objectivity in science, etc.
Astronomy
Picture of the Day.
Various text files
Note that I only have some of the course material online. We also use a number of books and other notes handed out in class.
Princeton graduate course AST554
Irreversible Processes in Plasmas (Princeton only, for now)
2007- (co-taught with Prof. John Krommes in 2001)
Princeton graduate course AST551/MAE541 General
Plasma Physics I co-taught with Prof. Nat Fisch, 1995-2000, 2002-2005
A Physics Formulary (incomplete, mostly
plasma physics and math at this point. Foldable booklet version (for two-sided printing).
LaTeX source files.
Computational Physics Tutorial given at the
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste,
2001, with Prof. Bill Dorland.
Other assorted course notes.
Nonlinear continuum gyrokinetic codes: Candy & Waltz's GYRO, Dorland & Kotschenreuther's GS2 (Astro version: AstroGK), Jenko's GENE.
Some collaborators and other interesting fusion research sites:
Bill Dorland
Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics (CMPD)
Edge Simulation Laboratory
Plasma Microturbulence
Project
Frank Jenko
Bruce Scott
Publications (some online) on
Gyrofluid Turbulence Simulations, etc.
(My research specialty)
Gyrofluid Turbulence Simulations
(My research specialty)
FTP archive of my FPPRF
program.
Same FPPRF files.
Directory of drafts of Web page collaborations
Directory of old stuff.
As when a gryfon through the wilderness...
Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth
Had from his wakeful custody purloined
The guarded gold...
-Milton, Paradise Lost