David Pfefferle public CV

David Pfefferle

Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1071-6614

Phone+61 8 6488 3190
Emaildavid.pfefferle@uwa.edu.au

The University of Western Australia (M019), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia

330 Citations
8 h-Index

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Personal profile

Biography

PhD EPFL

Research

Application of differential geometry to classical mechanics (mathematical physics): Lagrangian/Hamiltonian dynamics, Euler-Poincaré reduction on Lie groups, symmetry and Noether theorems, Froebenius integrability, De Rham cohomology and Hodge decomposition.

Numerical methods: symplectic and structure-preserving integrators, finite-difference/finite-element/spectral methods, Particle-In-Cell (PIC), Monte-Carlo methods, parallelisation schemes and high-performance computing.

Electromagnetism and fusion plasmas: Magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) equilibria, eddy currents in conducting structures, gauge freedom, magnetic helicity, field-line topology, guiding-centre/gyro-centre theory, collisional fluid closure, Vlasov-Boltzmann equation.

Languages

EN
FR
DE
IT

External positions

Associate Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

15 Aug 2015 → 15 Oct 2017

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

1 May 2015 → 1 Aug 2015

Graduate Research Assistant, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

15 Feb 2011 → 1 May 2015

Industry keywords

Energy
Space
Defence
Education

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Research Output

330 Citations
8 h-Index
33 Article
6 Conference paper
6 Conference presentation/ephemera
3 Poster
2 More
- 1 Other contribution
- 1 Non-UWA Thesis

Energy and momentum conservation in the Euler-Poincaré formulation of local Vlasov-Maxwell-type systems

Hirvijoki, E., Burby, J. W., Pfefferlé, D. & Brizard, A. J., 19 May 2020, In : Journal of Physics A : Mathematical and Theoretical. 53, 23, 20 p., 235204.

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Identification of an Optimized Heating and Fast Ion Generation Scheme for the Wendelstein 7-X Stellarator

W7-X Team & JET contributors, 15 Apr 2020, In : Physical Review Letters. 124, 15, 6 p., 155001.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

Rigidity of MHD equilibria to smooth incompressible ideal motion near resonant surfaces

Pfefferlé, D., Noakes, L. & Zhou, Y., 23 Apr 2020, In : Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 9 p.

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Validation of the BEAMS3D neutral beam deposition model on Wendelstein 7-X

Lazerson, S. A., Ford, O. P., Nuehrenberg, C., Äkäslompolo, S. J., Poloskei, P. Z., Machielsen, M., McNeely, P., Vano, L., Rust, N., Bozhenkov, S. A., Neelis, T., Graves, J. P., Pfefferlé, D., Spanier, A., Hartmann, D., Marushchenko, N. B., Turkin, Y., Hirsch, M., Chaudhary, N., Höfel, U. & 29 others, Stange, T., Weir, G. M., Pablant, N. A., Langenberg, A., Traverso, P., Valson, P., Knauer, J. P., Brunner, K. J., Pasch, E., Beurskens, M. N. A., Damm, H., Fuchert, G., Nelde, P., Scott, E. R., Hergenhahn, U., Pavone, A., Rahbarnia, K., Andreeva, T., Schilling, J., Brandt, C., Neuner, U., Thomsen, H., Jakubowski, M., Ali, A., Gao, Y., Niemann, H., Puig Sitjes, A., Koenig, R. & Wolf, R. C., 29 Apr 2020, In : Nuclear Fusion.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article