Zhihong Lin Professor of Physics Department of Physics and Astronomy University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA Email: zhihongl@uci.edu; Tel: 949-824-2717; Fax: 949-824-2174	Vitae	Publication
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My research interest is to study plasma turbulence and transport using advanced simulation, tightly coupled with analytic theory and experiment. Turbulent transport is arguably the most important scientific challenges in burning plasma experiments such as the International Tokamak Experimental Reactor (ITER), which is the crucial next step in the quest for fusion energy. From a broader perspective, turbulence, which is ubiquitous in laboratory, space, and astrophysical plasmas, is a nonlinear, dynamical, complex system that is full of intellectual challenge.

Recent HPCwire highlight on GTC

My participation in DOE SciDAC (Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing) program via the flagship fusion code GTC (Gyrokinetic Toroidal Code):

Gyrokinetic Particle Simulation of Turbulent Transport in Burning Plasmas Lead co-PI, SciDAC GPS

Gyrokinetic Simulation of Energetic Particle Turbulence and Transport PI, SciDAC GSEP

Plasma Edge Simulation- Fusion Simulation Prototype Center Co-PI, SciDAC CPES

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Selected Recent Publications

1. Transport of Energetic Particles by Microturbulence in Magnetized Plasmas, Wenlu ZHANG, Zhihong LIN, and Liu CHEN, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 2008, in press.
2. Full Torus Electromagnetic Gyrokinetic Particle Simulations with Kinetic Electrons, Y. Nishimura, Z. Lin and L. Chen, Commun. Comput. Phys. 5, 183-194 (2009).
3. Nonlinear Saturation of Mirror Instability, H. Qu, Z. Lin, and L. Chen, Geophy. Res. Lett. 35, L10108 (2008).
4. A particle simulation of current sheet instabilities under finite guide field, X. Y. Wang, Y. Lin, L. Chen, and Z. Lin, Phys. Plasmas 15, 072103 (2008).
5. Wave-particle decorrelation and transport of anisotropic turbulence in collisionless plasmas, Z. Lin, I. Holod, L. Chen, P. H. Diamond, T. S. Hahm, and S. Ethier, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 265003 (2007).
6. Global gyrokinetic particle simulations with kinetic electrons, Z. Lin, Y. Nishimura, Y. Xiao, I. Holod, W. L. Zhang, and L. Chen, Plasma Phys. Contr. Fusion 49, B163-B172 (December 2007).
7. Statistical analysis of fluctuations and noise-driven transport in particle-in-cell simulations of plasma turbulence, I. Holod and Z. Lin, Phys. Plasmas 14, 032306 (March 2007).

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