Recent highlights:
Investigating nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics in an optimized, reactor-scale quasi-axisymmetric stellarator, Physics of Plasmas 31.8 (2024), A. M. Wright and N. M. Ferraro. [Journal cover, Editor’s pick, selected for 2024 Early Career Collection]
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Books
🦡 An Introduction to Stellarators: From magnetic fields to symmetries and optimization, L.-M. Imbert-Gerard, E. J. Paul and A. M. Wright, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, DOI:10.1137/1.9781611978223 (2024).
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Preprints
🦡 Walking on Spheres and Talking to Neighbors: Variance Reduction for Laplace’s Equation, arXiv:2404.17692 (2025). M. T. Czekanski, B. J. Faber, M. E. Fairborn, A. M. Wright and D. S. Bindel.
2024
🦡 MHD-induced beta limits in the Large Helical Device, Physics of Plasmas 31.10 (2024). A. M. Wright and N. M. Ferraro.
🦡 Investigating nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics in an optimized, reactor-scale quasi-axisymmetric stellarator, Physics of Plasmas 31.8 (2024). A. M. Wright and N. M. Ferraro.
2022
🦡 Modelling the nonlinear plasma response to externally applied three-dimensional fields with the Stepped Pressure Equilibrium Code, Journal of Plasma Physics, 88.5 (2022). A. M. Wright, P. Kim, N. M. Ferraro and S. R. Hudson.
2021
🦡 Mode spectrum characteristics and onset of the low-shear MHD stability regime, Phys. Plasmas, 28, 7 (2021). A. M. Wright and N. M. Ferraro.
🦡 Predicting nonresonant pressure-driven MHD modes in equilibria with low magnetic shear, Phys. Plasmas 28, 1 (2021). A. M. Wright, N. M. Ferraro, S. R. Hudson, R. L. Dewar and M. J. Hole.
2019
🦡 Resistive stability of cylindrical MHD equilibria with radially localized pressure gradients, Phys. Plasmas 26, 6 (2019). A. M. Wright, S. R. Hudson, R. L. Dewar and M. J. Hole.
2017
🦡 An experimentally constrained MHD model for a collisional, rotating plasma column, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion, 59(2), 025003 (2017). A. M. Wright, Z. S. Qu, J. F. Caneses and M. J. Hole.
2013
🦡 Plasmoid solutions of the Hahm–Kulsrud–Taylor equilibrium model, Phys. Plasmas 20, 8 (2013). R. L. Dewar, A. Bhattacharjee, R. M. Kulsrud and A. M. Wright.
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Whitepapers and reports
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Other papers
🦡 Computation of linear MHD instabilities with Multi-region Relaxed MHD energy principle, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 63, 4 (2021)
🦡 Solenogam: A new detector array for -ray and conversion-electron spectroscopy of long-lived states in fusion-evaporation products, Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res Sec. A 953, 163136 (2020)
🦡 Three-quasiparticle isomer in 173Ta and the excitation energy dependence of K-forbidden transition rates, Phys. Rev. C 95, 054308 (2017)