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

284 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

Keywords

Energy
Space
Defence
Education

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stellarators Physics & Astronomy

ions Physics & Astronomy

magnetohydrodynamics Physics & Astronomy

cyclotrons Physics & Astronomy

heating Physics & Astronomy

neutral beams Physics & Astronomy

magnetic fields Physics & Astronomy

fluids Physics & Astronomy

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Research Output 2012 2019

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

Gauge freedom in magnetostatics and the effect on helicity in toroidal volumes

Pfefferlé, D. & Noakes, L., 6 Sep 2019, (Submitted) In : arXiv preprint. 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

File

magnetostatics

homology

boundary value problems

divergence

topology

Guiding-centre theory for kinetic-magnetohydrodynamic modes in strongly flowing plasmas

Lanthaler, S., Graves, J. P., Pfefferlé, D. & Cooper, W. A., 30 May 2019, In : Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 61, 7, 21 p., 074006.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Magnetohydrodynamics

magnetohydrodynamics

Plasmas

Kinetics

kinetics

Heavy impurity transport in tokamaks with plasma flows and saturated 3D perturbations

Neto, E., Graves, J. P., Raghunathan, M., Lanthaler, S., Pfefferlé, D., Cooper, W. A. & Sommariva, C., 2019.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference presentation/ephemera

Monte-Carlo/PIC methods to solve Vlasov-Boltzmann equation

Pfefferlé, D., 24 Jun 2019.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference presentation/ephemera

File

2 Citations (Scopus)

NSTX/NSTX-U theory, modeling and analysis results

Kaye, S. M., Battaglia, D. J., Baver, D., Belova, E., Berkery, J. W., Duarte, V. N., Ferraro, N., Fredrickson, E., Gorelenkov, N., Guttenfelder, W., Hao, G. Z., Heidbrink, W., Izacard, O., Kim, D., Krebs, I., La Haye, R., Lestz, J., Liu, D., Morton, L. A., Myra, J. & 71 othersPfefferle, D., Podesta, M., Ren, Y., Riquezes, J., Sabbagh, S. A., Schneller, M., Scotti, F., Soukhanovskii, V., Zweben, S. J., Ahn, J. W., Allain, J. P., Barchfeld, R., Bedoya, F., Bell, R. E., Bertelli, N., Bhattacharjee, A., Boyer, M. D., Brennan, D., Canal, G., Canik, J., Crocker, N., Darrow, D., Delgado-Aparicio, L., Diallo, A., Domier, C., Ebrahimi, F., Evans, T., Fonck, R., Frerichs, H., Gan, K., Gerhardt, S., Gray, T., Jarboe, T., Jardin, S., Jaworski, M. A., Kaita, R., Koel, B., Kolemen, E., Kriete, D. M., Kubota, S., LeBlanc, B. P., Levinton, F., Luhmann, N., Lunsford, R., Maingi, R., Maqueda, R., Menard, J. E., Mueller, D., Myers, C. E., Ono, M., Park, J-K., Perkins, R., Poli, F., Raman, R., Reinke, M., Rhodes, T., Rowley, C., Russell, D., Schuster, E., Schmitz, O., Sechrest, Y., Skinner, C. H., Smith, D. R., Stotzfus-Dueck, T., Stratton, B., Taylor, G., Tritz, K., Wang, W., Wang, Z., Waters, I. & Wirth, B., 5 Jun 2019, In : Nuclear Fusion. 59, 16 p., 112007.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

physics

operations research

pilot plants

low aspect ratio

field coils