Academic homepage of Francis Casson (F.J. Casson)
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Currently: Currently:
Former position: CFSA PhD Student
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Topic: Turbulent transport in rotating tokamak plasmas
Funding: and
Background: MSci from The University of Nottingham
Research Interests
- Gyrokinetic theory and numerics ()
- 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
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)
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)
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)-
Conferences and workshops
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- Attended: EFDA Goal orientated training in theory - Gyrokinetic theory and numerics IPP- November 2008
- Invited Talk: "Anomalous momentum transport by symmetry breaking in tokamak plasmas"
- Contributed Talk:
"Linear gyrokinetic simulations including the centrifugal force in a strongly rotating tokamak plasma" - Talk: CCFE turbsim July 2010
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