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  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Richard D Hazeltine is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering, with a specific focus on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Magnetic confinement fusion research
  • Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
  • Superconducting Materials and Applications
  • Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
  • Plasma Diagnostics and Applications
  • Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research

Hazeltine has authored several research papers, notable among them are:

  • Global Theory of Microtearing Modes in the Tokamak Pedestal, 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • A survey of pedestal magnetic fluctuations using gyrokinetics and a global reduced model for microtearing stability, 2022, Physics of Plasmas
  • A comprehensive conductivity model for drift and micro-tearing modes, 2020, Physics of Plasmas

Their frequent co-authors include J. L. Larakers, M. Curie, D. R. Hatch, and S. M. Mahajan.

Hazeltine's research has been published primarily in the venues of Physics of Plasmas and Physical Review Letters.

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2005.

Best Publications

  • Theory of plasma transport in toroidal confinement systems

    F. L. Hinton;R. D. Hazeltine

  • Plasma Transport in Toroidal Confinement Systems

    M. N. Rosenbluth;Richard D Hazeltine;F. L. Hinton

  • Island bootstrap current modification of the nonlinear dynamics of the tearing mode

    R. Carrera;R. D. Hazeltine;M. Kotschenreuther

  • The framework of plasma physics

    Richard D. Hazeltine;François L. Waelbroeck

  • Rotation of a toroidally confined, collisional plasma

    Richard D Hazeltine

  • A four‐field model for tokamak plasma dynamics

    Richard D Hazeltine;M T Kotschenreuther;Philip J Morrison

  • Kinetic theory of tearing instability

    R. D. Hazeltine;D. Dobrott;T. S. Wang

  • Recursive derivation of drift-kinetic equation.

    R D Hazeltine

  • Hamiltonian formulation of reduced magnetohydrodynamics

    P. J. Morrison;R. D. Hazeltine

  • Nonlinear dynamics of magnetic islands with curvature and pressure

    M. Kotschenreuther;R. D. Hazeltine;P. J. Morrison

  • Shear-Alfvén dynamics of toroidally confined plasmas

    Richard D Hazeltine;J. D. Meiss

  • Hamiltonian four-field model for nonlinear tokamak dynamics

    R. D. Hazeltine;C. T. Hsu;P. J. Morrison

  • Self‐consistent radial sheath

    R. D. Hazeltine

  • Collision-dominated plasma transport in toroidal confinement systems

    Richard D Hazeltine;F. L. Hinton

  • Theory of anomalous tearing mode growth and the major tokamak disruption

    P. H. Diamond;R. D. Hazeltine;Z. G. An;B. A. Carreras

  • The space potential in the tokamak text

    X. Z. Yang;B. Z. Zhang;A. J. Wootton;P. M. Schoch

  • Plasma transport in a torus of arbitrary aspect ratio

    Richard D Hazeltine;F. L. Hinton;M. N. Rosenbluth

  • Effects of orbit squeezing on ion transport in the banana regime in tokamaks

    Ker-Chung Shaing;R. D. Hazeltine

  • Shock formation in a poloidally rotating tokamak plasma

    K. C. Shaing;Richard D Hazeltine;H. Sanuki

  • A generalized reduced fluid model with finite ion-gyroradius effects

    C. T. Hsu;R. D. Hazeltine;P. J. Morrison

  • Stability of low-shear tokamaks

    F. L. Waelbroeck;R. D. Hazeltine

Frequent Co-Authors

Swadesh M Mahajan
Swadesh M Mahajan The University of Texas at Austin
Philip Morrison
Philip Morrison The University of Texas at Austin
Marshall N. Rosenbluth
Marshall N. Rosenbluth University of California, San Diego
James D. Meiss
James D. Meiss University of Colorado Boulder
Patrick Diamond
Patrick Diamond University of California, San Diego
B. A. Carreras
B. A. Carreras Carlos III University of Madrid
James Drake
James Drake University of Maryland, College Park
Darryl D. Holm
Darryl D. Holm Imperial College London
David E. Newman
David E. Newman University of Alaska Fairbanks

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