John William Connor
John William Connor , known as Jack Connor, is a British plasma physicist who is considered one of the leading theorists on the physics of tokamaks .
Connor is in the theory department of the Joint European Torus in Culham.
Connor does theoretical research on plasmas in the context of the tokamak path for controlled nuclear fusion. He has worked closely with John Bryan Taylor and Robert James Hastie in Culham since the 1960s . In the 1970s they developed the theory of ballooning-fashion instabilities. In 1970/71 they predicted the bootstrap current in the tokamak, which was confirmed more than a decade later on JET and TFTR. It plays an important role in the economic operation of future tokamaks.
He developed scaling methods with Taylor to extrapolate from the behavior of today's tokamaks to the larger planned power plant tokamaks such as ITER (Connor-Taylor constraints). Connor also looked at micro-instabilities and the anomalous transport they cause.
In 2004 he received the Hannes Alfvén Prize with John Bryan Taylor and Jim Hastie .
In 2010 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society for his substantial contribution to a wide range of problems fundamental to the success of magnetic confinement fusion, including the development of gyro-kinetic theory, prediction of bootstrap current, dimensionless scaling laws , pressure limiting instabilities, micro-stability, and transport theory .
In 2008 he received the Payne Gaposchkin Prize from the Institute of Physics .
He was co-editor of Physics of Plasmas.
literature
- Jo Lister: Award of the 2004 Hannes Alfvén Prize of the European Physical Society to JW Connor, RJ Hastie and JB Taylor . In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion . tape 46 , 12B, 2004, doi : 10.1088 / 0741-3335 / 46 / 12B / E02 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Connor, Hastie, Taylor Shear, periodicity and plasma ballooning modes , Phys. Review Letters, Volume 40, 1978, p. 396
- ↑ Bickerton, Connor, Taylor Diffusion driven plasma currents and boostrap Tokamaks , Nature Physical Science, Volume 229, 1971, p. 110
- ↑ Partly named after Boris Borissowitsch Kadomtzew , who also dealt with it
- ↑ Connor, Taylor Scaling laws for plasma confinement , Nuclear Fusion, Volume 17, 1977, p. 1047
- ↑ Connor, HR Wilson Survey of theories of anomalous transport, Plasma physics and controlled fusion , Volume 36, 1994, p. 719
- ↑ seminal contribution to a wide range of issues of fundamental importance to the success of magnetic confinement fusion, including the development of gyro-kinetic theory; prediction of the bootstrap current; dimensionless scaling laws; pressure limiting instabilities; and micro-stability and transport theory. Fellow of the Royal Society 2010
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| SURNAME | Connor, John William |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Connor, Jack |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |