Dorland, William - Professor

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Curriculum Vitae

Research:
Research Projects:
  • Astrophysical Turbulence
  • Computational Physics
  • Simulations of Collisionless Plasma Turbulence

Notable Publications:
  • G.G.Howes, W. Dorland, S. C. Cowley, G. W. Hammett, E. Quataert, A. A. Schekochihin, T. Tatsuno, "Kinetic simulations of magnetized turbulence in astrophysical plasmas",Phys. Rev. Letters 100, 065004 (2008).
  • I. G. Abel, M. Barnes, S. C. Cowley, W. Dorland and A. A. Schekochihin, "Linearized model Fokker-Planck collision operators for gyrokinetic simulations. I. Theory", Phys. Plasmas, 15, 122509, (2008).
  • M. Barnes, I. G. Abel, W. Dorland, D. R. Ernst, G. W. Hammett, P. Ricci, B. N. Rogers, A. A. Schekochihin, T. Tatsuno, "Linearized model Fokker-Planck collision operators for gyrokinetic simulations. II. Numerical Implementation and Tests", Phys. Plasmas, 16, 072107, (2009).
  • A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, W. Dorland, G. W. Hammett, G. G. Howes, E. Quataert, T. Tatsuno, "Astrophysical gyrokinetics: Kinetic and fluid turbulent cascades in magnetized weakly collisional plasmas", Ap. J. Supp., 182, 310, (2009).
  • W. Dorland, F. Jenko, M. Kotschenreuther, B. N. Rogers, "Electron Temperature Gradient Turbulence", Phys. Rev. Lett., 85, 5579, (4 pages) (2000).

Centers & Institutes: Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics




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