Faculty Profile
Pierre Alexandre Gourdain
Department: ECE
Title: Visiting Assistant Professor
Personal Web Site:
http://www.lps.cornell.edu/~pag/
Address:
Office:
445 Rhodes Hall
Ithaca, NY, 14853
Office Phone: (607) 255-3469
Biography:
Prof. Gourdain works in the field of fusion energy since 1997, just after coming out of college. He studied at UCSD and at UCLA. He earned his Ph.D. in theoritical plasma physics in 2001. He moved to Cornell University in 2008 to work in the Laboratory of Plasmas Studies on high energy density plasmas. It is a new and emerging branch of plasma physics which can help producing fusion power.
Research interests:
* Fusion Energy
* Wire array implosion
* Radial and cylindrical foil explosion
* Plasma-beam interaction
* X-ray radiations
* Astrophysics
Selected Publications:
1.Title: A multichannel, frequency-modulated, tunable Doppler backscattering and reflectometry system
Author(s): Hillesheim, JC; Peebles, WA; Rhodes, TL, et al.
Source: REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS Volume: 80 Issue: 8 Article Number: 083507 Published: 2009
2. Title: The convergence of analytic high-beta equilibrium in a finite aspect ratio tokamak
Author(s): Neches, RY; Cowley, SC; Gourdain, PA, et al.
Source: PHYSICS OF PLASMAS Volume: 15 Issue: 12 Article Number: 122504 Published: 2008
3. Title: A correlation electron cyclotron emission diagnostic and the importance of multifield fluctuation measurements for testing nonlinear gyrokinetic turbulence simulations
Author(s): White, AE; Schmitz, L; Peebles, WA, et al.
Source: REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS Volume: 79 Issue: 10 Article Number: 103505 Published: 2008
4. Title: Application of reflectometry power flow for magnetic field pitch angle measurements in tokamak plasmas (invited)
Author(s): Gourdain, PA; Peebles, WA
Source: REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS Volume: 79 Issue: 10 Article Number: 10F102 Published: 2008
5. Title: Dual equilibrium in a finite aspect ratio tokamak
Author(s): Gourdain, PA; Leboeuf, JN
Source: PHYSICS LETTERS A Volume: 372 Issue: 39 Pages: 6097-6100 Published: 2008
6. Title: Assessment of microwave power flow for reflectometry measurements in tokamak plasmas
Author(s): Gourdain, PA; Peebles, WA
Source: PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION Volume: 50 Issue: 2 Article Number: 025004 Published: 2008
7. Title: Stability of highly shifted equilibria in a large aspect ratio low-field tokamak
Author(s): Gourdain, PA; Leboeuf, JN; Neches, RY
Source: PHYSICS OF PLASMAS Volume: 14 Issue: 11 Article Number: 112513 Published: 2007
8. Title: Stability of highly shifted equilibria in a large-aspect-ratio tokamak
Author(s): Gourdain, PA; Cowley, SC; Leboeuf, JN, et al.
Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Volume: 97 Issue: 5 Article Number: 055003 Published: AUG 4 2006
9. Title: Validation of a molecular hydrogen penetration model in the electric tokamak
Author(s): Gourdain, PA; Schmitz, LW
Source: PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION Volume: 48 Issue: 7 Pages: 955-967 Published: JUL 2006
10. Title: Mitigation and control of the particle pinch in the Electric Tokamak
Author(s): Gourdain, PA
Source: PHYSICS OF PLASMAS Volume: 13 Issue: 7 Article Number: 072502 Published: JUL 2006
11. Title: High-resolution magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium code for unity beta plasmas
Author(s): Gourdain, PA; Leboeuf, JN; Neches, RY
Source: JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS Volume: 216 Issue: 1 Pages: 275-299 Published: JUL 20 2006
12. Title: Particle pinch mitigated by radial currents in the electric tokamak
Author(s): Taylor, RJ; Carter, TA; Gauvreau, JL, et al.
Source: NUCLEAR FUSION Volume: 45 Issue: 12 Pages: 1634-1641 Published: DEC 2005
13. Title: Contour dynamics method for solving the Grad-Shafranov equation with applications to high beta equilibria
Author(s): Gourdain, PA; Leboeuf, JN
Source: PHYSICS OF PLASMAS Volume: 11 Issue: 9 Pages: 4372-4381 Published: SEP 2004
14. Title: Initial plasma results from the Electric Tokamak
Author(s): Taylor, RJ; Gauvreau, JL; Gilmore, M, et al.
Source: NUCLEAR FUSION Volume: 42 Issue: 1 Pages: 46-51 Published: JAN 2002
15. Title: Radial electric field required to suppress ion temperature gradient modes in the Electric Tokamak
Author(s): Kissick, MW; Leboeuf, JN; Cowley, SC, et al.
Source: PHYSICS OF PLASMAS Volume: 6 Issue: 12 Pages: 4722-4727 Published: DEC 1999
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