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Richard Fitzpatrick
Professor, Directorship
Department of Physics, Institute for Fusion StudiesMagnetohydrodynamic stability; hydrodynamic stability; driven magnetic reconnectionrfitzp@utexas.edu
Phone: 512-560-7295
Office Location
PMA 11.226
Postal Address
2515 SPEEDWAY
AUSTIN, TX 78712-
Ph.D., University of Sussex (1988)
Research Interests
Magnetohydrodynamic stability; hydrodynamic stability; driven magnetic reconnection; momentum injection into fluids/plasmas via external perturbations.
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F.L. Waelbroeck, F. Militello, R. Fitzpatrick, and W. Horton, Effect of electrostatic turbulence on magnetic islands, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 51, 015015 (2009).
R. Fitzpatrick, A simple ideal magnetohydrodynamical model of vertical disruption events in tokamaks, Phys. Plasmas 16, 012506 (2009).
R. Fitzpatrick, Error-field induced electromagnetic torques in a large aspect-ratio. low-beta, weakly shaped tokamak plasma, Phys. Plasmas 16, 032502 (2009).
R. Fitzpatrick, and F.L. Waelbroeck, Effect of local ExB flow shear on the stability of magnetic islands in tokamak plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 16, 052502 (2009).
R. Fitzpatrick, and F.L. Waelbroeck, Effect of flow damping on drift-tearing magnetic islands in tokamak plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 16, 072507 (2009).
R. Fitzpatrick, Magnetic reconnection in weakly collisional highly magnetized electron-ion plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 17, 042101 (2010).
R. Fitzpatrick, and F.L. Waelbroeck, Locked magnetic island chains in toroidally flow damped tokamak plasmas, Plasma Phys. Control. Nuclear Fusion 52, 055006 (2010).
R. Fitzpatrick, and F.L. Waelbroeck, A drift-magnetohydrodynamical fluid model of helical magnetic island equilibria in the pedestals of H-mode tokamak plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 17, 062503 (2010).
R. Fitzpatrick, A nonideal error-field response model for strongly shaped tokamak plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 17, 112502 (2010).
R. Fitzpatrick, Theory of nonaxisymmetric vertical displacement events in tokamaks, Nucl. Fusion 51, 053007 (2011).
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