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 group studies instability, turbulence, and transport in high temperature plasmas using massively parallel simulation. Turbulent transport is arguably the most important scientific challenges in burning plasma experiments ITER, the crucial next step in the quest for fusion energy. Turbulence is ubiquitous in laboratory, space, and astrophysical plasmas. It is a nonlinear, dynamical, complex system that is full of intellectual challenges.

New scientific frontiers have constantly been opened up through petascale computing championed by the US DOE SciDAC (Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing) program, which features our 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 and Director, SciDAC GSEP

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

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Selected Recent Publications

• Compressed ITG turbulence in diverted tokamak edge, C. S. Chang, S. Ku, P. H. Diamond, Z. Lin, S. Parker, T. S. Hahm, and N. Samatova, Phys. Plasmas 16, 056108 (2009).
• Full Torus Electromagnetic Gyrokinetic Particle Simulations with Kinetic Electrons, Y. Nishimura, Z. Lin and L. Chen, Commun. Comput. Phys. 5, 183 (2009).
• Gyrokinetic particle simulations of toroidal momentum transport, I. Holod and Z. Lin, Phys. Plasmas 15, 092302 (2008).
• Transport of Energetic Particles by Microturbulence in Magnetized Plasmas, Wenlu Zhang, Zhihong Lin, and Liu Chen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 095001 (2008).
• Nonlinear Saturation of Mirror Instability, H. Qu, Z. Lin, and L. Chen, Geophy. Res. Lett. 35, L10108 (2008).
• 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).

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Highly Cited Papers

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). [over 350 citations]

1. 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). [over 130 citations]

2. 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). [over 120 citations]

3. Excitation of zonal flow by drift waves in toroidal plasmas, Liu Chen, Zhihong Lin, and Roscoe White, Phys. Plasmas 7, 3129 (2000). [over 120 citations]

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