Georgia Tech

Fusion Research Center

Nuclear & Radiological Engineering

 

THESES

(Performed in the Fusion Research Center)

 

 

 

“A Study of Self-Sustaining Thin-Films as a Means of Fusion Plasma Impurity and Wall Erosion Control”, PhD 1984, Arthur B. DeWald (now at Savannah River Research Lab)

“Neutral Beam Driven Impurity Flow Reversal in Tokamaks”, PhD 1984, Richard B. Bennett (now at General Public Utilities)

“Saturated Tearing Modes in Low Aspect Ratio Tokamaks”, PhD 1984, Robert N. Morris (now at Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

“Ion Transport Theory for a Strongly Rotating Beam Injected Plasma”, PhD 1987, Gary W. Neeley (now at AREVA, Lynchburg, VA)

“Particle and Momentum Confinement in Tokamak Plasmas with Unbalanced Neutral Beam Injection and Strong Rotation”, PhD 1988, (now at Pakistan Atomic Energy Com.)

“Fast Wave Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating Experiments on the Advanced Toroidal Facility”, PhD 1990, Myeun Kwon (now at K-STAR Project, Korean Atomic Energy Fusion Research Lab)

“Microwave Reflectometry on the Advanced Toroidal Facility to Measure Density Fluctuations and Their Radial Correlation Lengths”, PhD 1991, Gregory R. Hanson (now at Oak Ridge National Lab).

“An Experimental Study of Fast Ion Behavior in the Advanced Toroidal Facility”, PhD 1991, Mickey R. Wade (now at DIII-D, General Atomics)

“Analysis of Rotation Experiments in TFTR”, PhD 1991, Gabriella Pautasso (now at ASDEX Upgrade, Max-Planck Institut fur Plasmaphysik, Germany)

“Rotation in Tokamaks”, MSNE 1993, Danika Jackson.

“Effect of Poloidal Electric Field on Plasma Transport”, PhD 1993, S. Indireshkumar (now at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)

“Effects of Pulsed Electrodes on Magnetized Plasma”, PhD 1994, Richard Logan

“Low Activation Tokamak Reactors”, MSNE 1995, Edward A. Hoffman (now at Nuclear Energy Division, Argonne National Lab)

“Data Modeling and Analysis for the TFTR Differential Phase Reflectometer with Applications to ICRH”, PhD 1995, Ivan Collazo-Lopez

“Plasma Facing Component Design Concepts in Heat Removal and Stress”, MSNE 1997, Diane C. Norris (now at SAIC)

“Tokamak Density Limits”, PhD 2000, Frederick A. Kelly (now at TEXTOR, Forchungzentrum Julich, Germany)

“Neutral Particle Transport in the Plasma Edge and Divertor Region”, PhD 2000, Roberto Rubilar (now at Knolls Atomic Power Lab)

“Neutron Transmutation of Nuclear Waste”, PhD 2002, Edward A. Hoffman (now at Nuclear Energy Division, Argonne National Lab)

“A Superconducting Fusion Transmutation of Waste Reactor”, MSNE 2002, Andrew N. Mauer (now at US Nuclear Regulatory Commission)

“Neutral Particle Transport in Plasma Edge Using Transmission/Escape Probability (TEP) Method”, PhD 2005, Dingkang Zhang (now post-doc, NRE Program, Georgia Tech)

“Investigation of MARFE Induced H-L Back Transitions”, MSNE 2005, Zachary W. Friis (now in NRE PhD program at Georgia Tech)

“Fuel Cycle Optimization of a Helium-Cooled, Sub-Critical, Fast Transmutation of Waste Reactor with a Fusion Neutron Source”, MSNE 2006, James W. Maddox (now at AREVA, Lynchburg, VA)