2022

Murugappan, M., Villard, L., Brunner, S., McMillan, Ben F. and Bottino, A. (2022) Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence and zonal flows driven by steep profile gradients using a delta-f approach with an evolving background Maxwellian. Physics of Plasmas, 29 (10). 103904. doi:10.1063/5.0106661

Vega, J., Murari, A., Dormido-Canto, S., Rattá, G. A. and Gelfusa, M. (2022) Disruption prediction with artificial intelligence techniques in tokamak plasmas. Nature Physics, 18 (7). pp. 741-750. doi:10.1038/s41567-022-01602-2

Mazzi, S., Garcia, J., Zarzoso, D., Kazakov, Ye. O., Ongena, J., Dreval, M., Štancar, Ž., Szepesi, G., Eriksson, J., Sahlberg, A. and Benkadda, S. (2022) Enhanced performance in fusion plasmas through turbulence suppression by megaelectronvolt ions. Nature Physics, 18 (7). pp. 776-782. doi:10.1038/s41567-022-01626-8

JET Contributors (Including: Chapman, Benjamin, Dendy, R. O., McMillan, Ben F. and Michling, R.). (2022) Overview of JET results for optimising ITER operation. Nuclear Fusion, 62 (4). 042026. doi:10.1088/1741-4326/ac47b4

2021

Sasaki, M., Itoh, K., McMillan, Ben F., Kobayashi, T., Arakawa, H. and Chowdhury, J. (2021) Formation of density corrugations due to zonal flow in wave-kinetic framework. Physics of Plasmas, 28 (11). 112304. doi:10.1063/5.0055777

2020

(2020) Orb5: A global electromagnetic gyrokinetic code using the PIC approach in toroidal geometry. Computer Physics Communications, 251 . 107072. doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2019.107072

2019

Ball, Justin, Brunner, Stephan and McMillan, Ben F. (2019) The effect of background flow shear on gyrokinetic turbulence in the cold ion limit. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 61 (6). 064004. doi:10.1088/1361-6587/ab1320

McMillan, B. F., Ball, J. and Brunner, S. (2019) Simulating background shear flow in local gyrokinetic simulations. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 61 (5). 055006. doi:10.1088/1361-6587/ab06a4

Villard, L, McMillan, B F, Lanti, E, Ohana, N, Bottino, A, Biancalani, A, Novikau, I, Brunner, S, Sauter, O, Tronko, N and Mishchenko, A (2019) Global turbulence features across marginality and non-local pedestal-core interactions. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 61 (3). 034003. doi:10.1088/1361-6587/aaf7e7

2018

Saarelma, S, Martin-Collar, J, Dickinson, D, McMillan, B F and Roach, C M (2018) Erratum: Non-local effects on pedestal kinetic ballooning mode stability (2017 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 59 064001). Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 60 (9). 099601. doi:10.1088/1361-6587/aacfc7

McMillan, Ben F., Pringle, Chris C. T. and Teaca, Bogdan (2018) Simple advecting structures and the edge of chaos in subcritical tokamak plasmas. Journal of Plasma Physics, 84 (6). 905840611. doi:10.1017/S0022377818001216

2015

Sharma, Amil Yograj and McMillan, Ben F. (2015) A reanalysis of a strong-flow gyrokinetic formalism. Physics of Plasmas, 22 (3). pp. 1-6. 032510.

2014

McMillan, Ben F. and Villard, L. (2014) Accuracy of momentum and gyrodensity transport in global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations. Physics of Plasmas, Volume 21 (Number 5). 052501. doi:10.1063/1.4873387

Field, A. R., Dunai, D., Ghim, Y.-c., Hill, P. (Peter), McMillan, Ben F., Roach, C. M., Saarelma, S., Schekochihin, A. A. and Zoletnik, S. (2014) Comparison of BES measurements of ion-scale turbulence with direct gyro-kinetic simulations of MAST L-mode plasmas. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Volume 56 (Number 2). Article number 025012. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/56/2/025012

2013

(2013) Overview of physics results from MAST towards ITER/DEMO and the MAST Upgrade. Nuclear Fusion, Volume 53 (Number 10). Article number 104008. doi:10.1088/0029-5515/53/10/104008

Villard, L., Angelino, P., Bottino, A., Brunner, S., Jolliet, S., McMillan, Ben F., Tran, T. M. and Vernay, T. (2013) Global gyrokinetic ion temperature gradient turbulence simulations of ITER. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Volume 55 (Number 7). Article number 074017. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/55/7/074017

Vernay, T., Brunner, S. (Stephan), Villard, Laurent, McMillan, Ben F., Jolliet, Sebastien, Bottino, Alberto, Görler, T. and Jenko, F. (2013) Global gyrokinetic simulations of TEM microturbulence. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Volume 55 (Number 7). Article number 074016. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/55/7/074016

2012

Saarelma, S., Hill, P. (Peter), Bottino, A., Colyer, G., Field, A. R., McMillan, Ben F., Peeters, A. and Roach, C. M. (2012) Global gyrokinetic turbulence simulations of MAST plasmas. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Volume 54 (Number 8). Article number 085012. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/54/8/085012

Vernay, T., Brunner, S., Villard, L., McMillan, Ben F., Jolliet, S., Tran, T. M. and Bottino, A. (2012) Synergy between ion temperature gradient turbulence and neoclassical processes in global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations. Physics of Plasmas, Vol.19 (No.4). 042301. doi:10.1063/1.3699189

McMillan, Ben F., Hill, P. (Peter), Jolliet, S., Vernay, T., Villard, L. and Bottino, A. (2012) Gyrokinetic transport relations for gyroscale turbulence. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 401 . Article number 012014. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/401/1/012014

Hill, P. (Peter), Saarelma, S., McMillan, Ben F., Peeters, A. G. and Verwichte, E. (Erwin) (2012) Perpendicular wavenumber dependence of the linear stability of global ion temperature gradient modes onE×Bflows. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Volume 54 (Number 6). Article number 065011. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/54/6/065011

2011

McMillan, Ben F., Hill, P. (Peter), Bottino, A., Jolliet, S., Vernay, T. and Villard, L. (2011) Interaction of large scale flow structures with gyrokinetic turbulence. Physics of Plasmas, Vol.18 (No.11). p. 112503. doi:10.1063/1.3656947

2010

McMillan, Ben F., Lapillonne, X., Brunner, S., Villard, L., Jolliet, S., Bottino, A., Görler, T. and Jenko, F. (2010) System size effects on gyrokinetic turbulence. Physical Review Letters, Vol.105 (No.15). Article no. 155001. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.155001

Bottino, Alberto, Scott, Bruce, Brunner, Stephan, McMillan, Ben F., Trach , Minh Tran, Vernay, Thibaut, Villard, Laurent, Jolliet, Sebastien, Hatzky, Roman and Peeters, Arthur G. (2010) Global nonlinear electromagnetic simulations of tokamak turbulence. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Vol.38 (No.9). pp. 2129-2135. doi:10.1109/TPS.2010.2055583

2009

Angelino, P., Garbet, X., Villard, L., Bottino, A., Jolliet, S., Ghendrih, Ph., Grandgirard, V., McMillan, Ben F., Sarazin, Y., Dif-Pradalier, G. and Tran, T. (2009) Role of plasma elongation on turbulent transport in magnetically confined plasmas. Physical Review Letters, Vol.102 (No.19). Article: 195002. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.195002

McMillan, Ben F., Jolliet, S., Tran, T. M., Villard, L., Bottino, A. and Angelino, P. (2009) Avalanchelike bursts in global gyrokinetic simulations. Physics of Plasmas, Vol.16 (No.2). Article no. 022310. doi:10.1063/1.3079076

2008

Falchetto, G. L., Scott, B. D., Angelino, P., Bottino, A. (Alessandro), Dannert, T., Grandgirard, V., Janhunen, S., Jenko, F., Jolliet, S., Kendl, A., McMillan, Ben F., Naulin, V. (Volker), Nielsen, A. H., Ottaviani, Maurizio, Peeters, A. G., Pueschel, M. J., Reiser, D., Ribeiro, T. T. and Romanelli, M. (Michele) (2008) The European turbulence code benchmarking effort : turbulence driven by thermal gradients in magnetically confined plasmas. In: 35th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, Hersonissos, Greece, Jun 09-13, 2008. Published in: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol.50 (No.12). ISSN 0741-3335. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/50/12/124015

McMillan, Ben F., Jolliet, S., Tran, T. M., Villard, L., Bottino, A. and Angelino, P. (2008) Long global gyrokinetic simulations : source terms and particle noise control. Physics of Plasmas, Vol.15 (No.5). Article: 052308. doi:10.1063/1.2921792