Publications

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 DevicePhysics of Plasmas 31.10 (2024). A. M. Wright and N. M. Ferraro.

🦡 Investigating nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics in an optimized, reactor-scale quasi-axisymmetric stellaratorPhysics 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

🦡 Advancing technologies for high-resolution spatial and temporal measurements of macroscopic stellarator flows (link)

🦡 Critical Role of the Public Theory & Modeling Program for Commercial Fusion Energy (link)

🦡 Flexible Stellarator Physics Facility (link)

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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)