Research Interests

• Gyrokinetic theory and numerics (GKW)
• Anomalous transport of heat, impurities and momentum in tokamaks
• Strong rotation and non-inertial frames in tokamak plasmas
• Comparison of turbulence measurement and simulation
• High performance computing for gyrokinetics

Selected publications

• Gyrokinetic simulations including the centrifugal force in a rotating tokamak plasma
  F.J. Casson, A.G. Peeters, C. Angioni, Y. Camenen, W.A. Hornsby, A.P. Snodin, and G. Szepesi
  Physics of Plasmas, 17, 102305 (2010) (Abstract and Local Copy)
• Anomalous parallel momentum transport due to E x B flow shear in a tokamak plasma
  F.J. Casson, A.G. Peeters, Y. Camenen, W.A. Hornsby, A.P. Snodin, D. Strintzi and G. Szepesi
  Physics of Plasmas, 16, 092303 (2009) (Abstract and Local Copy)
• The nonlinear gyro-kinetic flux tube code GKW
  A.G. Peeters, Y. Camenen, F.J. Casson, W.A. Hornsby, A.P. Snodin, D. Strintzi and G. Szepesi
  Computer Physics Communications, 180, 2650 (2009)
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Conferences and workshops

• Attended: Culham summer school July 2008
• Attended: Vienna WPI gyrokinetics workshop October 2008
• Attended: EFDA Goal orientated training in theory - Gyrokinetic theory and numerics IPP- November 2008
• Invited Talk: Warwick IOP satellite workshop 2009
   "Anomalous momentum transport by symmetry breaking in tokamak plasmas"
• Contributed Talk: IOP Plasma Physics 2010 
  "Linear gyrokinetic simulations including the centrifugal force in a strongly rotating tokamak plasma"
• Talk: CCFE turbsim July 2010
  "Gyrokinetic simulations including the centrifugal force in a strongly rotating tokamak plasma"
• Poster: INI Gyrokinetics workshop 2010
  "Gyrokinetic simulations of a strongly rotating tokamak plasma"
• Invited Talk: Varenna-Lausanne Sep 2010
  "Gyrokinetic turbulence in the presence of strong rotation"

Why fusion? 

•  My introduction to fusion for the non-specialist (old)

If not fusion?

• Mountains
• Sea