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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

 

Here the listing can be found of the most recent and relevant publications of the Plasma Physics Group at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. The link associated with the paper title allows (whenever available) to download a local copy of the paper (in PDF format). The link associated to the journal name connects to the journal abstract page, from where reprints of he paper can also be purchased or downloaded.


1994

 

1. 'Drift-wave turbulence in a plasma with a sheared flow', K. Sidikman, B.A. Carreras and L. García, Journal of Computational Physics, 114, 100 (1994)


2. 'Theory of electric-field curvature effects on long-wavelength drift wave turbulence', K. Sidikman, B.A. Carreras, P.H. Diamond and L. García, Physics of Plasmas, 1, 1142 (1994)


1995
 

1. 'Dynamics of second-order phase transitions in resistive pressure-gradient driven turbulence', B.A. Carreras, V.E. Lynch, L. García and P.H. Diamond, Physics of Plasmas, 2, 2744 (1995)


2. 'Wavelet bicoherence: a new turbulence analysis tool', B.Ph. van Milligen, E. Sánchez, T. Estrada, C. Hidalgo, B. Brañas, B.A. Carreras, and L. García, Physics of Plasmas, 2, 3017 (1995)


1996
 

1. 'Runaway electron measurements in the JET tokamak', B. Esposito, J.R. Martín-Solís, P. van Belle, O. N. Jarvis, F.B. Marcus, G. Sadler, R. Sánchez, B. Fischer, P. Froissard, J.M. Adams, E. Cecil and N. Watkins, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 38, 2035 (1996)


2. 'Comparison of the calculations of the stability properties of a specific stellarator equilibrium with different MHD codes', Y. Nakamura, T. Matsumoto, M. Wakatani, S. Galkin, V. Drozdov, A. Martynov, Y. Poshekhonov, K. Ichiguchi, L. García, B.A. Carreras, C. Nuhrenberg, W. Cooper, J.L. Johnson, Journal of Computational Physics, 128, 43 (1996)


3. ' Characterization of fluctuations in the JET divertor plasmas with Langmuir probes', I. García-Cortés, C. Hidalgo, J.R. Martín-Solís, S. Ali-Arshad, S. Clement, S. Davies, J. Lingetart, A. Loarte, G. Matthews and R.D. Monk, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 38, 2051 (1996)


1997

 

1. 'Compressibility effects on ideal and resistive ballooning stability in the TJ-II heliac', R. Sánchez, J. A. Jiménez, L. García and A. Varias, Nuclear Fusion, 37, 1363 (1997)


2. 'Resistive pressure gradient-driven turbulence at stellarator plasma edge', L. García, B.A. Carreras and V.E. Lynch, J. N. Leboeuf, and D. E. Newman, Physics of Plasmas, 4, 3282 (1997)


1998

 

1. 'Kinetic effects on ideal ballooning stability in the TJ-II heliac', R. Sánchez, J. A. Jiménez and L. García, Nuclear Fusion, 38, 1511 (1998)


2. 'Momentum-space structure of relativistic runaway electrons', J.R. Martín-Solís, J. D. Alvarez, R. Sánchez and B. Esposito, Physics of Plasmas, 5, 2370 (1998)


3. 'Plasma detachment in JET Mark I Divertor Experiments', A. Loarte, R. D. Monk, J.R. Martín-Solís, D. Campbell, A. Chankin, S. Clement, S. Davies, J. Ehrenberg, S. Erents, H. Guo, P. Harbour, L. Horton, L. Ingesson, H. Jackel, J. Lingetart, C. Lowry, C. Maggi, G. Matthews, K. McCormick, D. O'Brien, R. Reichle, G. Saibene, R. Smith, M. Stamp, D. Stork and G. Vlases, Nuclear Fusion, 38, 331 (1998)


4. 'Ideal and resistive stability of the TJ-II heliac', L. García, R. Sánchez, andJ. A. Jiménez, Journal of Plasma Fusion Research SERIES, 1, 468 (1998)


5. 'Overview of probe measurements at JET', S. J. Davies, M. Endler, S. Erents, I. García-Cortés, H. Guo, C. Hidalgo, A. Loarte, J.R. Martín-Solís, G. Matthews, K. McCormick, R. D. Monk and P.C. Stangeby, Contributions to Plasma Physics, 38, 61 (1998)


1999

 

1. 'Effects of magnetic and electrostatic fluctuations on the runaway electron dynamics in tokamak plasmas', J.R. Martín-Solís, R. Sánchez and B. Esposito, Physics of Plasmas, 6, 3925 (1999)


2. 'Effect of poloidally asymmetric sheared flow on resistive ballooning turbulence', L. García, B.A. Carreras and V.E. Lynch, Physics of Plasmas, 6, 3910 (1999)


3. 'Energy limits on runaway electrons in tokamak plasmas', J.R. Martín-Solís, B. Esposito , J. D. Alvarez and R. Sánchez, Physics of Plasmas, 6, 238 (1999)


4. 'Physics of compact stellarators', S.P. Hirshman, D.A. Spong, J.C. Whitson, B. Nelson, D.B. Batchelor, J.F. Lyon, R. Sánchez, A. Brooks, G. Fu, R. Goldston, L.P. Ku, D. Monticello, H. Mynick, G. Neilson, N. Pomphrey, M. Redi, W. Reiersen, A. Reiman, J. Schmidt, R. White, M. Zarnstorff, W. Miner, P. Valanju and A.H. Boozer, Physics of Plasmas, 6, 1858 (1999)


5. 'Physics design of a high-beta quasi-axisymmetric stellarators', A. Reiman, G. Fu, S.P. Hirshman, L. Ku, D. Monticello, H. Mynick, M. Redi, D.A. Spong, M. Zarnstorff, B. Blackwell, A. Boozer, A. Brooks, W. A. Cooper, M. Drevlak, R. Goldston, J. Harris, M. Isaev, C. Kessel, Z. Lin, J.F. Lyon, P. Merkel, M. Mikhailov, W. Miner, N. Nakajima, G. Neilson, C. Nuhrenberg, M. Okamoto, N. Pomphrey, W. Reiersen, R. Sánchez, J. Schmidt, A. Subbotin, P. Valanju, K. Watanabe and R. White, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 41, B273 (1999)


6. 'Spatiotemporal structure of resistive pressure-gradient-driven turbulence', L. García, B.A. Carreras and V.E. Lynch, Physics of Plasmas, 6, 107 (1999)


2000

 

1. 'Predictions on runaway current and energy during disruptions in tokamak plasmas', J.R. Martín-Solís, R. Sánchez and B. Esposito, Physics of Plasmas, 7, 3369 (2000)


2. 'On the effect of synchrotron radiation and magnetic fluctuations on the avalanche runaway growth rate', J.R. Martín-Solís, R. Sánchez and B. Esposito, Physics of Plasmas, 7, 3814 (2000)


3. 'Design studies of low aspect ratio quasi-omnigeneous stellarators', D.A. Spong, S.P. Hirshman, J.C. Whitson, D.B. Batchelor, R. Sánchez, B. A. Carreras, V.E. Lynch, J.F. Lyon, P.M. Valanju, W.H. Miner, P.E. Moroz, M.C. Zarnstorff, D.A. Monticello, A.S. Ware, L. García, Nuclear Fusion, 40, 563 (2000)


4. 'Magnetohydrodynamics stability of compact stellarators', G.Y. Fu, L.P. Ku, W.A. Cooper, S.P. Hirshman, D. A. Monticello, A. H. Reiman, M. H. Redi, R. Sánchez, D.A. Spong, Physics of Plasmas, 7, 1809 (2000)


5. 'Physics issues in the design of high-beta low-aspect-ratio stellarator experiments', G.H. Neilson, A. H. Reiman, M.C. Zarnstorff, A. Brooks, G.Y. Fu, R.J. Goldston, L.P. Ku, Z. Lin, R. Majeski, D.A. Monticello, H. Mynick, N. Pomphrey, M.H. Redi, W. Reiersen, J. Schmidt, S.P. Hirshman, J. F. Lyon, L.A. Berry, B. Nelson, R. Sánchez, D.A. Spong, A. H. Boozer, W.H. Miner, P.M. Valanju, W.A. Cooper, M. Drevlak, P. Merkel and C. Nuhrenberg, Physics of Plasmas, 7, 1911 (2000)


6. 'COBRA: an optimized code for fast analysis of ideal ballooning stability of three-dimensional magnetic equilibria', R. Sánchez, S.P. Hirshman, J.C. Whitson and A. S. Ware, Jounal of Computational Physics, 161, 576 (2000)


7. 'Ballooning stability optimization of low-aspect-ratio stellarators', R. Sánchez, S.P. Hirshman, A.S. Ware, L.A. Berry and D.A. Spong, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 42, 641 (2000)


8. 'Full torus Landau fluid calculations of ion temperature gradient-driven turbulence in cylindrical geometry', J.N. Lebouef, V.E. Lynch, B.A. Carreras, J.D. Alvarez and L. García, Physics of Plasmas, 7, 5013 (2000)


9. ' Generation of sheared poloidal flows via Reynolds stress and transport barrier physics', C. Hidalgo, M.A. Pedrosa, E. Sanchez, R. Balbin, A. Lopez-Fraguas, B.Ph. van Milligen, C. Silva, H. Fernandes, C.A.F. Varandas, C. Riccardi, R. Carrozza, M. Fontanesi, B.A. Carreras, L. García, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 42, A153 (2000)


10. ' Role of rational surfaces on fluctuations and transport in the plasma edge of the TJ-II stellarator', M.A. Pedrosa, . Hidalgo, A. Lopez-Fraguas, B.Ph. van Milligen, R. Balbin, J.A. Jimenez, E. Sanchez, J. Castellano, L. García, B.A. Carreras and V.E. Lynch, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics, 50, 1463 (2000)


2001

 

1. 'Mixed SOC-diffusive dynamics as a paradigm of transport in fusion devices', R. Sánchez, D.E. Newman and B.A. Carreras, Nuclear Fusion, 41, 247 (2001)


2. 'Reynold stress and shear flow generation', S.B. Korsholm, P.K. Michelsen, V. Namlin, J.J. Rasmunsen, , L. García, B.A. Carreras and V.E. Lynch Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 43, 1377 (2001)


3. 'Improved magnetic coordinate representation for ideal ballooning calculations with the COBRA code', R. Sánchez, S.P. Hirshman, H.V. Wong, Computer Physics Communications, 135, 82 (2001)


4. 'Recent advances in the design of quasi-axysimmetric stellarator plasma configurations', A. H. Reiman, L. Ku, D. Monticello, S. Hirshman, S. Hudson, C. Kessel, E. Lazarus, D. Mikkelsen, M.C. Zarnstorff, L. Berry, A. Boozer, A. Brooks, W. Cooper, M. Drevlak, E. Frederikson, G.Y. Fu, R.J. Goldston, R. Hatcher, M. Isaev, C. Jun, S. Knowlton, J. Lewandowski, Z. Lin, J.F. Lyon, P. Merkel, M. Mikhailov, W. Miner, H. Mynick, G. Neilson, B. Nelson, C. Nuhrenberg, N. Pomphrey, M.H. Redi, W. Reiersen, P. Rutherford, R. Sánchez, J. Schmidt, D.A. Spong, D. Strickler, A. Subbotin, P. Valanju, and R. White, Physics of Plasmas, 8, 2083 (2001)


5. 'Physics Issues of compact drift optimized stellarators', D.A. Spong, S.P. Hirshman, L.A. Berry, J.F. Lyon, R. Fowler, D. Strickler, M. Cole, B. Nelson, D. Williamson, A.S. Ware, D. Alban, R. Sánchez, G. Fu, D.A. Monticello, W. Miner and P. Valanju, Nuclear Fusion, 41, 711 (2001)


6. 'Ideal MHD stability calculations for compact stellarators', R. Sánchez, M. Isaev, S.P. Hirshman, W.A. Cooper, G. Fu, J. A. Jimenez, L. Ku, M. Mikhailov, D. Monticello, A. Reiman and A. Subbotin, Computer Physics Communications, 141, 55 (2001)


7. 'Physics of the compact advanced stellarator NCSX', M.C. Zarnstorff, L. A. Berry, A. Brooks, E. Frederickson, G. Fu, S.P. Hirshman, S. Hudson, L. Ku, E. Lazarus, D. Mikkelsen, D. Monticello, G. Neilson, N. Pomphrey, A. Reiman, D. Spong, D. Strickler, A. Boozer, W. Cooper, R. Goldston, R. Hatcher, M. Isaev, C. Kessel, J. Lewandowski, J.F. Lyon, P. Merkel, H. Mynick, B. Nelson, C. Nuhrenberg, M.H. Redi, W. Reiersen, P. Rutherford, R. Sánchez, J. Schmidt and R. White, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 43, A237 (2001)


8. 'Sheared flow amplification by vacuum magnetic islands in stellarator plasmas', L. García, B.A. Carreras, V.E. Lynch, M.A. Pedrosa and C. Hidalgo, Physics of Plasmas, 8, 4111 (2001)


2002

 

1. 'Interaction of runaway electrons with lower hybrid waves via anomalous Doppler broadening', J.R. Martín-Solís, R. Sánchez and B. Esposito, Physics of Plasmas, 9, 1667 (2002)


2. 'Avalanche structure of a running sandpile', B. A. Carreras, V. E. Lynch, D. E. Newman and R. Sánchez, Physical Review E, 66, 011302 (2002)


3. 'A self-organized critical transport model based on critical-gradient fluctuation dynamics', L. García, B. A. Carreras and D. E. Newman, Physics of Plasmas, 9, 841 (2002)


4. 'Resistive pressure-gradient-driven instabilities in the transition regime to fully developed turbulence', L. García, B. A. Carreras and V. E. Lynch, Physics of Plasmas, 9, 47 (2002)


5. 'Waiting-time statistics of SOC systems', R. Sánchez, D.E. Newman and B.A. Carreras, Physical Review Letters, 88, 068302 (2002)


6. 'Quiet-time statistics: a tool to probe SOC dynamics from within the strong overlapping regime', R. Sánchez, D. E. Newman, W. Ferenbaugh, B. A. Carreras, V. E. Lynch and B.Ph. van Milligen, Physical Review E, 66, 036124 (2002)


7. 'Transition in the dynamics of a diffusive running sandpile', D.E. Newman, R. Sánchez, B.A. Carreras and W. Ferenbaugh, Physical Review Letters, 88, 204304 (2002)


8. 'Ballistic transport phenomena in TJ-II', B.Ph. van Milligen, E. de la LUna, F. Tabarés, E. Ascasíbar, T. Estrada, F. Castejón, J. Castellano, I. García-Cortes, J. Herranz, C. Hidalgo, J.A. Jimenez, F. Medina, M. Ochando, I. Pastor, M.A. Pedrosa, D. Tafalla, L. García, R. Sánchez, A. Petrov, K. Sarksian and N. Skvortsova, Nuclear Fusion, 42, 787 (2002)


9. 'High-beta equlibria of drift-optimized compact stellarators', A.S. Ware, S.P. Hirshman, D.A. Spong, L.A. Berry, A.J. Deisher, G.Y. Fu, J.F. Lyon and R. Sánchez, Physical Review Letters, 89, 125003 (2002)


10. 'A gamma-ray spectrometer for fusion applications', B. Esposito, L. Bertalot, Yu.A. Kaschuck, D.V. Portnov and J.R.Martín-Solís, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A , 476 522 (2002)


11. 'Criticalidad Auto-organizada y el problema del confinamiento magnetico de plasmas en dispositivos de fusion termonuclear ', R. Sánchez, B.A. Carreras, D.E. Newman and B.Ph. van Milligen, Revista Española de Fisica , 16 (5) 18 (2002)


2003

 

1. 'Quiet-time statistics of electrostatic turbulent fluxes from the JET tokamak and the W7-AS and TJ-II stellarators ', R. Sánchez, B.Ph. van Milligen, D.E. Newman and B .A. Carreras, Physical Review Letters, 90 185005(2003)


2. ' Controlling confinement with induced toroidal current in the flexible Heliac TJII ', J.A. Romero, D. López-Bruna, A. López-Fraguas, E. Ascasíbar and the TJII-Team Nuclear Fusion , 43 386 (2003)


3. ' Dynamics of high energy runaways in the Frascati Tokamak Upgrade ', B. Esposito, J. R. Martín-Solís, F.M. Poli, J. A. Mier, R. Sánchez, and L. Panaccione Physics of Plasmas , 10 2350 (2003)


4. ' Effect of beta and collisionality on the vacuum magnetic field islands in stellarators ', L. García, B.A. Carreras, V.E. Lynch and M. Wakatani, Nuclear Fusion , 43 553 (2003)


5. ' Shear-Alfven continua in stellarators ', D.A. Spong, R. Sánchez, and A. Weller Physics of Plasmas , 10 3217 (2003)


6. ' Modelling of ELM-like phenomena via SOC-diffusive dynamics ', R. Sánchez, D.E. Newman, B.A. Carreras, R. Woodard, W. Ferenbaugh and H.R. Hicks Nuclear Fusion , 43 1031 (2003)


7. ' ORCO: a numerical tool to study the radial diffusion of runaway electrons in tokamaks ', R. Sánchez , J.R. Martín-Solís and B. Esposito, Computer Physics Communications 156, 95 (2003)


8. ' Topological instability alon g filamented invariant surfaces ', B.A. Carreras, V.E. Lynch, L. García, M. Edelman and G.M. Zaslavsky, Chaos 13, 1175 (2003)


2004

 

1. 'Probabilistic finite-size transp ort models for fusion: anonalous transport and scaling laws ', B. Ph. van Milligen, R. Sánchez and B.A. Carreras, Physics of Plasmas 11, 2272 (2004)


2. 'Second ballooning instability in high-beta, compact stellarators ', A.S. Ware, D. Westerly, E. Barc ikowski, L.A. Berry, G.Y. Fu, S.P. Hirshman, J.F. Lyon, R. Sánchez , D.A. Spong and D.J. Strickler, Physics of Plasmas 11, 2453 (2004)


3. 'Effect of Ohmic current in the T J-II stellarator ', D. Lopez-Bruna, F. Castejon, T. Estrada, J.A. Romero J.A. Jimenez, E. Ascasibar and the TJ-II Team, Nuclear Fusion 44, 645 (2004)


4. 'Uphill transport and the probab ilistic model ', B. Ph. van Milligen, B.A. Carrer as and R. Sánchez , Physics of Plasmas 11, 3787 (2004)


5. ' Runaway electron behaviour during electron cyclotron resonance heating in the Frascati Tokamak Upgrade ', J.R. Martín-Solís , B. Esposito, R. Sánchez, and G. Granucci, Nuclear Fusion 44, 974 (2004)


6. ' Comment to: "Do earthquakes exhibit self-organized criticality?" ', R.A. Woodard, D.E. Newman, R. Sánchez and B.A. Carreras , Physical Review Letters 93, 249801 (2004)


7. ' Experimental evidence of c oup ling between sheared-flow development and an increase in the level of turbulence in the TJ-II stellarator ', C. Hidalgo, M.A. Pedrosa, L. García and A. S. Ware Physical Review E 70, 067402 (2004)


2005

 

1. 'Fluid limits of nonintegrable contrinuous-time random walks in terms of fractional differential equations ', R. Sánchez, B.A. Carreras and B.Ph. van Milligen, Physical Review E 71, 011111 (2005)


2. ' On the Idenfification of SOC dynamics in the Sun-Earth system', R.A. Woodard, D.E. Newman, R. Sánchez and B.A. Carreras , capítulo aparecido en Multiscale Coupling of Sun-Earth Processes, edited by A.T.Y. Lui, Y. Kamide and G. Consolini, Elsevier Publishing Company (2005) - ISBN: 0-444-51881-9


3. ' Determination of long-range correlations by quiet-time statistics', V.E. Lynch, B.A. Carreras, R. Sánchez, B. LaBombard, B.Ph. van Milligen and D.E. Newman , Physics of Plasmas 12 052304 (2005)


4. ' Additional evidence for universality of turbulent fluctuations and fluxes in the scrape-off layer of tokamaks and stellarators ', B.Ph. van Milligen, R. Sánchez, B.A. Carreras, B. LaBombard, M.A. Pedrosa, C.Hidalgo, B. Go nzalves, R. Balbín and the W7-AS Team, Physics of Plasmas 12 052507 (2005)


5. 'Probabilistic models for plasma transport in the presence of critical thresholds: beyond the diffusive paradigm ', R. Sánchez , B.Ph van Milligen and B.A. Carreras, Physics of Plasmas 12, 056105 (2005)


6. ' On the applicability of Fick's law to diffusion in inhomogeneous systems ', B.Ph. van Milligen, P.D. Bons, B.A. Carreras and R. Sánchez, European Journal of Physics 26 913(2005)


7. ' Topological instability along invariant surfaces and pseudochaotic transport ', G.M. Zaslavsky, B.A. Carreras, V.E. Lynch, L. García and M. Edelman, Physical Review E 72 026227 (2005)


8. ' Avalanche properties in a transportmodel based on critical-gradient fluctuation dynamics ', L. García and B.A. Carreras, Physics of Plasmas 12 092305 (2005)


9. ' Overview of FTU results ', B. Angelini, S.V. Anibaldi,....., D. Marocco, J.R.Martín-Solís, F. Martini,..., G. Vlad and F. Zonca, Nuclear Fusion 45 S227 (2005)


10. ' The foundations of diffusion revisited ', B.Ph. van Milligen, B.A. Carreras and R. Sánchez, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 47 B743 (2005)


11. ' Comparison of runaway dynamics in LH and ECRH heated discharges in the Frascati Tokamak Upgrade ', J.R. Martín-Solís, B. Esposito, R. Sánchez, G. Granucci and L. Panaccione, Nuclear Fusion 45 1524 (2005)


2006

 

1. 'Estimation of synchrotron radiation and limiting energy of high-energy runaway electrons in tokamak stochastic agnetic fields',J.R. Martín-Solís and R. Sánchez, Physics of Plasmas 13, 012508 (2006)


2. 'Mesoscale transport properties induced by near critical resistive pressure-gradient-driven turbulence in toroidal geometry',L. García and B.A. Carreras,Physics of Plasmas 13, 022310 (2006)


3. 'On the use of critical gradient models in fusion plasma transport studies', B.A. Carreras, V.E. Lynch, B.Ph. van Milligen and R. Sánchez,Physics of Plasmas 13, 062301 (2006)


4. 'Renormalization of tracer turbulence leading to fractional differential equations', R. Sánchez, B.A. Carreras, D.E. Newman, V.E. Lynch and B.Ph. van Milligen, Physical Review E 74, 016305 (2006)


5. 'Enhanced Production of Runaway Electrons during a Disruptive Termination of Discharges heated with Lower Hybrid Power in the Frascati Tokamak Upgrade', J.R. Martín-Solís , B. Esposito, R. Sánchez, F.M. Poli and L. Panaccione, Physical Review Letters 97, 165002 (2006)


6. ' Plasma turbulent transport modelling by means of Levy distributions', R. Sánchez, B.Ph. van Milligen and B.A. Carreras, Chapter in Book: New Trends in Nuclear Fusion Research , Edited by Y. Nakamura, Nova Publishers, New York (2006). ISBN: 1-59454-486-7.


7. 'Study of the interaction between diffusive and avalanche-like transport in near-critical dissipative-trapped-electron-mode turbulence ',J.A. Mier, L. García and R. Sánchez, Physics of Plasmas 13, 102308 (2006)


8. 'Properties of the LHD plasmas with a large island - super dense core plasma and island healing', N Ohyabu, T Morisaki, S Masuzaki, R Sakamoto, M Kobayashi, J Miyazawa, M Shoji, H Funaba, J H Harris, Y Hirooka, S Inagaki, K Itoh, K Narihara, N Nakajima, Y Narushima, S Ohdachi, B Peterson, S Sakakibara, R. Sánchez,K Tanaka, K Watanabe, M Yokoyama, K Ida, T Shimozuma, H Yamada, Y Nagayama, O Kaneko, T Mutoh, K Kawahata, A Komori, S Sudo and O Motojima , Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 48, B383 (2006)


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