Dmitri Dmitrievich Ryutov

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Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Rjutow ( Russian Дмитрий Дмитриевич Рютов , English transcription Dmitri Ryutov; born March 6, 1940 in Moscow ) is a Russian theoretical plasma physicist .

Ryutov graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1962 and was at the Kurchatov Institute from 1965 , where he received his doctorate in plasma theory in 1966. From 1968 he was at the Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, where he expanded the fusion research program from 1979 and was most recently deputy director and chief scientist from 1994 to 1997. He was also a professor of plasma physics at the Novosibirsk State University . From 1994 he was Senior Visiting Scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where he became a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in 2012.

Among other things, he dealt with mirror machines (among other things, he proposed the Gas Dynamic Trap (GDT) in Novosibirsk), tokamak divertors, particle beams with high energy density, the Z-pinch , solar and space physics, laboratory astrophysics, X-ray optics and magnetic levitation . He was involved in the Inductrack experimental magnetic levitation system and the Snowflake Divertor for tokamaks and X-ray diagnostics at the Linac Coherent Light Source .

He has been a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1976 and a full member since 1992, became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1998 and the Institute of Physics in 2004 , received the Distinguished Career Award from Fusion Power Associates in 2010 and became an Edward Teller Fellow of the LLNL in 2007.

In 2017 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics for many outstanding contributions to theoretical plasma physics for both low and high energy plasmas, open and closed magnetic configurations and laboratory systems and astrophysical systems (laudation)

Fonts (selection)

  • with RP Drake, J. Kane, E. Liang, BA Remington, WM Wood-Vasey: Similarity criteria for the laboratory simulation of supernova hydrodynamics , Astrophysical Journal, Volume 518, 1999, p. 821
  • Landau damping: half a century with the great discovery , Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Volume 41, 1999, A 1
  • with MS Derzon, MK Matzen: The physics of fast Z pinches , Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 72, 2000, p. 167
  • with RH Cohen, P. Helander: On the possibility of inducing strong plasma convection in the divertor of MAST , Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Volume 43, 2001, p. 1399
  • On Drift Instabilities in Magnetized Target Fusion Devices , Physics of Plasmas, Volume 9, 2002, p. 4085
  • Thermal stresses in the reflective X-ray optics for the Linac Coherent Light Source, Rev. Sci. Instr., Vol. 74, 2003, p. 3722
  • Axial electron heat loss from mirror devices revisited , Fusion Sci. Technol., Volume 47, 2005, p. 148
  • Geometrical Properties of a Snowflake Divertor , Phys. Plasmas, Volume 14, 2007, p. 064502
  • On the Virial Theorem for Interstellar Medium , Astrophys. Journal, Volume 674, 2008, p. 976
  • with RH Cohen: Geometrical effects in plasma stability and dynamics of coherent structures in the divertor , Contrib. Plasma Phys., Volume 48, 2008, p. 48
  • with VA Soukhanovskii: The Snowflake Divertor, Physics of Plasmas, Volume 22, 2015, p. 110901

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Maxwell Prize for Ryutov 2017