Welcome to Research Center for Plasma Turbulence, Kyushu University.
Research Center for Plasma Turbulence is authorized by Kyushu University since October 1, 2009.
The foundation of the center is associated with a project supported with Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, entitled ‘Integrated Research on Dynamic Response and Transport in Turbulent Plasmas’ (2009-2013). The principal researcher of the project, Distinguished Professor S-I Itoh, Kyushu University, directs the center. For establishing international core-competence-web of extreme state plasmas, the center is expanded on April 1, 2011.
Objective
The center aims at forming an international core facility to develop methods to control burning plasma and to clarify the plasma nonlinear physics, including turbulent transport, structure formation and dynamo process, by systematizing the studies of plasma turbulence and by integrating the researches of non-equilibrium systems. Another emphasis of the center is placed upon the enhancement of international bidirectional education that has been already carried out in Kyushu University. These activities should make Kyushu University visible as an international carrier path.
Method
The center should adopt, in particular, the methodology of e-Science, or integrating the major methodologies of science, i.e., theory, simulation and experiment, in order to accomplish the scientific purposes of the project. Emphasis is placed upon collaboration with advanced science disciplines.
Organization
Corresponding to the methodological concept, the center consists of major five branches, i.e., branch of plasma turbulence theory and analysis, that of plasma turbulence simulation, that of plasma turbulence experiment, that of plasma turbulence e-Science and that of extreme-state plasma network. The members of each branch are shown in the following table.
Director: Akihide Fujisawa
Vice-director: Naohiro Kasuya
| branch | division | Professor | Associate Professor | Assistant Professor |
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| plasma turbulence | turbulence plasma modeling | Naohiro Kasuya | Yusuke Kosuga Lesur, Maxime *1 |
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| turbulence plasma simulation | Masatoshi Yagi *2 | Hallatschek, Klaus *1 Makoto Sasaki *2 |
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| turbulence plasma experiment | Akihide Fujisawa | Yoshihiko Nagashima Chanho Moon |
Takashi Nishizawa | |
| phase space diagnostics | Katsumi Ida *2 | Tokihiko Tokuzawa*3 | ||
| beam diagnostics | Takeshi Ido | |||
| advanced turbulence analysis | Manz, Peter *1 | Tatsuya Kobayash*3 | ||
| extreme-state plasma network | steady-state plasma control | Kazuaki Hanada | Makoto Hasegawa | |
| plasma structure control | Hwang, Yong-seok *1 | |||
| plasma mathematical science | ||||
| plasma informatics | Takuma Yamada | Kotaro Yamasaki*2 | ||
| plasma photonics | Ryosuke Kodama*2 | |||
| astronomical plasma science | ||||
| plasma interface science | ||||
| reactive plasma science | Toshiro Kaneko*2 | |||
| energy science | Wagner, Fritz *1 |
Senior adviser: Keisuke Matsuoka, Kimitaka Itoh, R. Dendy
*1.foreign visiting professor, *2. visiting professor, ＊3.Cross-appointment (NIFS)
Backgrounds
The forerunner of the Center is the group of Specially promoted project (2004-2008), ’Research on Structural Formation and Selection Rule in Turbulent Plasmas’. This former project really proved the significance of this methodology, and worked as a carrier path for young scientists. The international collaboration of this Center is based on the authorized collaboration programs of Kyushu University between Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, University of California San Diego, University of Provence and University of Warwick. We will continue the Itoh Project Prize in Plasma Turbulence on occasion of EPS Conference.