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NIMROD PAPERS

The standard reference for citing NIMROD is:

• C.R. Sovinec, A.H. Glasser, D.C. Barnes, T.A. Gianakon, R.A. Nebel, S.E. Kruger, D.D. Schnack, S.J. Plimpton, A. Tarditi, M.S. Chu and the NIMROD Team, "Nonlinear Magnetohydrodynamics with High-order Finite Elements," Journal of Computational Physics, 195, 355 (2004).

The BibTex reference for this is:

	@article{sovinec04,
		Author = {C.R. Sovinec and A.H. Glasser and T.A. Gianakon and 
		D.C. Barnes and R.A. Nebel and S.E. Kruger and S.J. Plimpton and 
		A. Tarditi and M.S. Chu and the NIMROD Team},
		Journal = {J. Comp. Phys.},
		Pages = {355},
		Title = {Nonlinear Magnetohydrodynamics 
		          with High-order Finite Elements},
		Volume = {195},
		Year = {2004}
	}
	

Papers in which the primary focus is on results of NIMROD simulations

• S. Yang, P. Zhu, J. Xie, and W. Liu, "Two-fluid MHD regime of resistive drift-wave instability," Phys. Plasmas 25, 092113 (2018).
• M. T. Beidler, J. D. Callen, C. C. Hegna, and C. R. Sovinec, "Mode penetration induced by transient magnetic perturbations," Phys. Plasmas 25, 082507 (2018).
• J. B. O'Bryan, C. A. Romero-Talamas, and S. Woodruff, "Simulations of multi-pulse coaxial helicity injection in the Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment," Phys. Plasmas 25, 032503 (2018).
• E. B. Hooper, "Plasma density injection and flow during coaxial helicity injection in a tokamak," Phys. Plasmas 25, 022512 (2018).
• Y. Hou, P. Zhu, C. C. Kim, Z. Hu, Z. Zou, Z. Wang, and the NIMROD Team, "NIMROD calculations of energetic particle driven toroidal Alfven eigenmodes," Physics of Plasmas 25, 012501 (2018).
• B. Luo, P. Zhu, H. Li, W.-D. Liu, and KTX Team, "Resistive MHD modelling of quasi-single helicity state in the KTX regimes," Nucl. Fusion 58, 016049 (2018).
• K. D. Morgan, T. R. Jarboe, A. C. Hossack, R. N. Chandra, and C. J. Everson, "Validation of extended magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the HIT-SI3 experiment using the NIMROD code," Physics of Plasmas 24, 122510 (2017).
• X.-T. Yan, P. Zhu, and Y.-W. Sun, "Neoclassical toroidal viscosity torque in tokamak edge pedestal induced by external resonant magnetic perturbation," Phys. Plasmas 24, 082510 (2017).
• D. Banerjee, P. Zhu, and R. Maingi, "Stabilizing effects of resistivity towards ELM-free H-mode discharge in Lithium-conditioned NSTX," Nucl. Fusion 57, 076005 (2017).
• S. Cheng, P. Zhu, and D. Banerjee, "Enhanced toroidal flow stabilization of edge localized modes with increased plasma density," Physics of Plasmas 24, 092510 (2017).
• V. A. Izzo and P. B. Parks, "Modeling of rapid shutdown in the DIII-D tokamak by core deposition of high-Z material," Physics of Plasmas 24, 060705 (2017).
• J. P. Sauppe and C. R. Sovinec, "Extended MHD modeling of tearing-driven magnetic relaxation," Physics of Plasmas 24, 056107 (2017).
• V. A. Izzo, "The effect of pre-existing islands on disruption mitigation in MHD simulations of DIII-D," Physics of Plasmas 24, 056102 (2017).
• J. R. King, S. E. Kruger, K. H. Burrell, X. Chen, A. M. Garofalo, R. J. Groebner, K. E. J. Olofsson, A. Y. Pankin, and P. B. Snyder, "MHD modeling of a DIII-D low-torque QH-mode discharge and comparison to observations," Physics of Plasmas 24, 055902 (2017).
• D. Banerjee, P. Zhu, and R. Mainji, "Stabilizing effects of enhanced resistivity due to lithium-conditioning on low-n edge localized modes in NSTX," Physics of Plasmas 24, 054501 (2017).
• M. T. Beidler, J. D. Callen, C. C. Hegna, and C. R. Sovinec, "Nonlinear modeling of forced magnetic reconnection in slab geometry with NIMROD," Physics of Plasmas 24, 052508 (2017).
• P. Zhu, A. Bhattacharjee, A. Sangari, Z. Wang, and P. Bonofiglo, "Three-dimensional geometry of magnetic reconnection induced by ballooning instability in a generalized Harris sheet," Physics of Plasmas 24, 024503 (2017).
• J. R. King, K. H. Burrell, A. M. Garofalo, R. J. Groebner, S. E. Kruger, A. Y. Pankin, and P. B. Snyder, "NIMROD modeling of quiescent H-mode: reconstruction considerations and saturation mechanism," Nuclear Fusion 57, 022002 (2017).
• J. R. King, S. E. Kruger, R. J. Groebner, J. D. Hanson, J. D. Hebert, E. D. Held, and J. R. Jepson, "Effect of scrape-off-layer current on reconstructed tokamak equilibrium," Physics of Plasmas 24, 012504 (2017).
• F. Ebrahimi, "Dynamo-driven plasmoid formation from a current-sheet instability," Physics of Plasmas 23, 120705 (2016).
• E. B. Hooper and C. R. Sovinec, "A current-driven resistive instability and its effects in simulations of coaxial helicity injection in a tokamak," Physics of Plasmas 23, 102502 (2016).
• N. A. Roberds, J. D. Hanson, D. A. Maurer, L. Guazzotto, E. C. Howell, and C. R. Sovinec, "Simulations of sawtoothing in a current carrying stellarator," Physics of Plasmas 23, 092513 (2016).
• J. R. King, A. Y. Pankin, S. E. Kruger, and P. B. Snyder, "The impact of collisionality, FLR, and parallel closure effects on instabilities in the tokamak pedestal: Numerical studies with the NIMROD code," Physics of Plasmas 23, 062123, 2016.
• C. R. Sovinec, "Stabilization of numerical interchange in spectral-element magnetohydrodynamics," Journal of Computational Physics 319, 61, 2016.
• F. Ebrahimi and R. Raman, "Large-volume flux closure during plasmoid-mediated reconnection in coaxial helicity injection," Nuclear Fusion 56, 044002 (2016).
• J. P. Sauppe and C. R. Sovinec, "Two-fluid and finite Larmor radius effects on helicity evolution in a plasma pinch," Physics of Plasmas 23, 032303 (2016).
• F. Ebrahimi and R. Raman, "Plasmoid formation during simulations of coaxial helicity injection in the National Spherical Torus Experiment," Physical Review Letters 114, 205003 (2015).
• E. D. Held, S.E. Kruger, J.-Y. Ji, E. A. Belli, and B. C. Lyons, "Verification of continuum drift kinetic equation solvers in NIMROD," Physics of Plasmas 22, 032511 (2015).
• T. G. Jenkins and E. D. Held, "Coupling extended magnetohydrodynamic fluid codes with radiofrequency ray tracing codes for fusion modeling," Journal of Computational Physics 297, 427 (2015).
• P. Zhu, C. R. Sovinec and C. C. Hegna, "The formation of blobs from a pure interchange process," Physics of Plasmas 22, 022311 (2015).
• P. Zhu and J. Raeder, "Ballooning instability-induced plasmoid formation in near-Earth plasma sheet," Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 119, 131 (2014).
• F. Ebrahimi, R. Raman, E. B. Hooper, C. R. Sovinec, and A. Bhattacharjee, "Physics of forced magnetic reconnection in coaxial helicity injection experiments in National Spherical Torus Experiment," Physics of Plasmas 21, 056109 (2014).
• E. C. Howell and C. R. Sovinec, "Solving the Grad-Shafranov equation with spectral elements," Computer Physics Communications 185, 1415 (2014).
• J. B. O'Bryan and C. R. Sovinec, "Simulated flux-rope evolution during non-inductive startup in Pegasus," Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 56, 064005 (2014).
• E. B. Hooper, C. R. Sovinec, R. Raman, F. Ebrahimi, and J. E. Menard, "Resistive MHD simulations of helicity injected startup plasmas in NSTX," Physics of Plasmas 20, 092510 (2013).
• F. Ebrahimi, E. B. Hooper, C. R. Sovinec, and R. Raman, "Magnetic reconnection process in transient coaxial helicity injection," Physics of Plasmas 20 , 090702 (2013).
• C. Akcay, C. C. Kim, B. S. Victor, and T. R. Jarboe, "Validation of single- fluid and two-fluid magnetohydrodynamic models of the helicity injected torus spheromak experiment with the NIMROD code," Physics of Plasmas 20 , 082512 (2013).
• P. Zhu and J. Raeder, "Plasmoid formation in current sheet with finite normal magnetic component," Physical Review Letters 110, 235005 (2013).
• V. A. Izzo, "Impurity mixing and radiation asymmetry in massive gas injection simulations of DIII-D," Physics of Plasmas 20, 056107 (2013).
• M. G. Schlutt, C. C. Hegna, C. R. Sovinec, E. D. Held and S. E. Kruger, "Self-consistent simulations of nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics and profile evolution in stellarator configurations," Physics of Plasmas 20, 056104 (2013).
• M. G. Schlutt, C. C. Hegna, C. R. Sovinec, J. D. Hebert and S. F. Knowlton, "Numerical simulation of current evolution in the Compact Toroidal Hybrid," Nuclear Fusion 52, 103023 (2012).
• J. B. O'Bryan, C. R. Sovinec, and T. M. Bird, "Simulation of current-filament dynamics and relaxation in the Pegasus ST," Physics of Plasmas 19, 080701 (2012).
• N. A. Murphy, M. P. Miralles, C. L. Pope, J. C. Raymond, H. D. Winter, K. K. Reeves, D. B. Seaton, A. A. van Ballegooijen, and J. Lin, "Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Flare and Coronal Mass Ejection Current Sheets," Astrophysical Journal 751, 56 (2012).
• J. R. King, C. R. Sovinec, and V. V. Mirnov, "First-order finite-Larmor-radius fluid modeling of tearing and relaxation in a plasma pinch," Physics of Plasmas 19 , 055905 (2012).
• D. P. Brennan, C. C. Kim, and R. J. La Haye, "Energetic particle effects on n=1 resistive MHD instabilities in a DIII-D hybrid discharge," Nuclear Fusion 52, 033004 (2012).
• P. Zhu, C. C. Hegna, and C. R. Sovinec, "Stabilizing effects of edge current density on pedestal instabilities," Physics of Plasmas 19, 032503 (2012).
• I. V. Khalzov, B. P. Brown, N. Katz, and C. B. Forest, "Modeling the Parker instability in a rotating plasma screw pinch," Physics of Plasmas 19 , 022107 (2012).
• R. A. Bayliss, C. R. Sovinec, and A. J. Redd, "Zero-beta modeling of coaxial helicity injection in the HIT-II spherical torus," Physics of Plasmas 18, 094502 (2011).
• E. B. Hooper, "Physics issues of a spheromak refluxing scenario," Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 53, 085008 (2011).
• V.A. Izzo, E.M. Hollmann, A.N. James, J.H. Yu, D.A. Humphreys, L.L. Lao, P.B. Parks, P.E. Sieck, J.C. Wesley, R.S. Granetz, G.M. Olynyk and D.G. Whyte, "Runaway electron confinement modelling for rapid shutdown scenarios in DIII-D, Alcator C-Mod and ITER," Nuclear Fusion 51, 063032 (2011).
• F. Ebrahimi, B. Lefebvre, C. B. Forest, and A. Bhattacharjee, "Global Hall-MHD simulations of Magnetorotational Instability in a Plasma Couette Flow Experiment," Physics of Plasmas 18, 062904 (2011).
• J. R. King, C. R. Sovinec, and V. V. Mirnov, "First-order finite-Larmor-radius effects on magnetic tearing in pinch configurations," Physics of Plasmas 18, 042303 (2011).
• I. V. Khalzov, B. P. Brown, F. Ebrahimi, D. D. Schnack, and C. B. Forest, "Numerical simulation of laminar plasma dynamos in a cylindrical von Karman flow," Physics of Plasmas 18, 32110 (2011).
• N. A. Murphy, "Resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations of X-line retreat during magnetic reconnection," Physics of Plasmas 17, 112310 (2010).
• R. D. Milroy, C. C. Kim, and C. R. Sovinec, "Extended magnetohydrodynamic simulations of field reversed configuration formation and sustainment with rotating magnetic field current drive," Physics of Plasmas 17, 62502 (2010).
• V. A. Izzo and P. B. Parks, "Comment on 'Plasma current spikes due to internal reconnection during tokamak disruptions," Nuclear Fusion 50 , 58001 (2010).
• C. R. Sovinec, J. R. King, and the NIMROD Team, "Analysis of a mixed semi-implicit/implicit algorithm for low-frequency two-fluid plasma modeling," Journal of Computational Physics 229 , 5803 (2010).
• B. J. Burke, S. E. Kruger, C. C. Hegna, P. Zhu, P. B. Snyder, C. R. Sovinec, and E. C. Howell, "Edge localized linear ideal magnetohydrodynamic instability studies in an extended-magnetohydrodynamic code," Physics of Plasmas 17, 32103 (2010).
• T. G. Jenkins, S. E. Kruger, C. C. Hegna, D. D. Schnack, and C. R. Sovinec, "Calculating electron cyclotron current drive stabilization of resistive tearing modes in a nonlinear MHD model," Physics of Plasmas 17,, 12502 (2010).
• V. A. Izzo, P. B. Parks, and L. L. Lao, "DIII-D and ITER rapid shutdown with radially uniform deuterium deliver," Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 51, 105004 (2009).
• P. Zhu, C. C. Hegna, C. R. Sovinec, A. Bhattacharjee, and K. Germaschewski, "Intermediate nonlinear regimes of line-tied g mode and ballooning instability," Nuclear Fusion 49, 095009 (2009).
• E. B. Hooper, C. A. Romero-Talamas, L. L. Lodestro, R. D. Wood, and H. S. McLean, "Aspect-ratio effects in the driven, flux-core spheromak," Physics of Plasmas 16, 052506 (2009).
• B. I. Cohen, C. A. Romero-Talamas, D. D. Ryutov, E. B. Hooper, L. L. Lodestro, H. S. McLean, T. L. Stewart, and R. D. Wood, "The role of the n=1 column mode in spheromak formation," Physics of Plasmas 16, 042501 (2009).
• C. S. Carey and C. R. Sovinec, "Rotational stabilization of magnetically collimated jets," the Astrophysical Journal 699, 362 (2009).
• R. Takahashi, D. P. Brennan, and C. C. Kim, "A detailed study of kinetic effects of energetic particles on resistive MHD stability," Nuclear Fusion 49, 065032 (2009).
• R. Takahashi, D. P. Brennan, and C. C. Kim, "Kinetic Effects of Energetic Particles on Resistive MHD Stability," Physical Review Letters 102, 135001 (2009).
• V.A. Izzo, I. Joseph, "RMP enhanced transport and rotational screening in simulations of DIII-D plasmas," Nucl. Fusion 48, 115004 (2008).
• A. I. D. Macnab and S. Woodruff, "Simulations of the supersonic translation, collision, and merging of two field-reversed configurations for plasma heating," IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 36 , 1208 (2008).
• C. C. Kim and the NIMROD Team, "Impact of velocity space distribution on hybrid kinetic-magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the (1,1) mode," Physics of Plasmas 15, 072507 (2008).
• J. M. Reynolds, C. R. Sovinec, and S. C. Prager, "Nonlinear Magnetohydrodynamics of Pulsed Parallel Current Drive in Reversed-field Pinches," Physics of Plasmas 15, 062512 (2008).
• V. A. Izzo, D. G. Whyte, R. S. Granetz, P. B. Parks, E. M. Hollmann, L. L. Lao, and J. C. Wesley, "Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of massive gas injection into Alcator C-Mod and DIII-D plasmas" Physics of Plasmas 15, 056109 (2008).
• N. A. Murphy and C. R. Sovinec, "Global Axisymmetric Simulations of Two-fluid Reconnection in an Experimentally Relevant Geometry," Physics of Plasma 15, 042313 (2008).
• E. B. Hooper, B. I. Cohen, H. S. McLean, R. D. Wood, C. A. Romero-Talamas, and C. R. Sovinec, "NIMROD Resistive Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Spheromak Physics," Physics of Plasmas 15, 032502 (2008).
• R. D. Milroy, A. I. D. Macnab, C. C. Kim, and C. R. Sovinec, "FRC simulations using the NIMROD code," Journal of Fusion Energy 27, 73 (2008).
• C.C. Kim and the NIMROD Team, "Preliminary Simulations of FLR Effects on RFP Tearing Modes," Journal Fusion Energy 27, 61 (2008).
• A. I. D. Macnab, R. D. Milroy, C. C. Kim, C. R. Sovinec, and the NIMROD Team, "Hall magnetohydrodynamics simulations of end-shorting induced rotation in field-reversed configurations," Physics of Plasmas 14, 092503 (2007).
• C. R. Sovinec, D. C. Barnes, R. A. Bayliss, D. P. Brennan, E. D. Held, S. E. Kruger, A. Y. Pankin, D. D. Schnack and the NIMROD Team, "Two-fluid studies of edge relaxation events in tokamaks," Journal of Physics: Conference Series 78, 012070 (IoP, London, 2007).
• P. Zhu, C. R. Sovinec, C. C. Hegna, A. Bhattacharjee, and K. Germaschewski, "Nonlinear ballooning instability in the near-Earth magnetotail: Growth, structure, and possible role in substorms," Journal of Geophysical Research 112, A06222 (2007).
• V.A Izzo, "A numerical investigation of the effects of impurity penetration depth on disruption mitigation by massive high-pressure gas jet," Nucl. Fusion 46, 541 (2006).
• D. P. Brennan, S. E. Kruger, D. D. Schnack, C. R. Sovinec, and A. Pankin, "Computing nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic edge localized instabilities in fusion plasmas," Journal of Physics: Conference Series 46, 63 (IoP, London, 2006).
• D. D. Schnack, D. C. Barnes, C. C. Hegna, E. D. Held, C. C. Kim, S. E. Kruger, A. Y. Pankin, and C. R. Sovinec, "Computational Modeling of Fully Ionized Plasmas Using the Fluid Approximation," Physics of Plasmas 13, 58103 (2006).
• E.B. Hooper, T. A. Kopriva, B. I. Cohen, D. N. Hill, H. S. Mclean, R. D. Wood, S. Woodruff, and C. R. Sovinec,
"A Magnetic Reconnection Event in a Driven Spheromak," Physics of Plasmas 12, 92503 (2005).
• V. A. Izzo and T. R. Jarboe, "Three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the Helicity Injected Torus with Steady Inductive drive," Physics of Plasmas 12, 056109 (2005).
• D.P. Brennan, S.E. Kruger, T.A. Gianakon, and D.D. Schnack, "A categorization of tearing mode onset in tokamaks via nonlinear simulation", Nucl. Fusion 45, 1178-1190 (2005).
  Link to General Atomics report from same work.
• C. R. Sovinec, D. D. Schnack, A. Y. Pankin, D. P. Brennan, H. Tian, D. C. Barnes, S. E. Kruger, E. D. Held, C. C. Kim, X. S. Li, D. K. Kaushik, S. C. Jardin, and the NIMROD Team, "Nonlinear Extended Magnetohydrodynamics Simulation Using High-Order Finite Elements," Journal of Physics: Conference Series 16, 25 (IoP, London, 2005).
• S.E. Kruger, D.D. Schnack and C. R. Sovinec, "Dynamics of the Major Disruption of a DIII-D Plasma," Physics of Plasmas 12, 56113 (2005).
• B.I. Cohen, E. B. Hooper, R. H. Cohen, D. N. Hill, H. S. Mclean, R. D. Wood, S. Woodruff, C. R. Sovinec, and G. A. Cone, "Simulation of Spheromak Evolution and Energy Confinement," Physics of Plasmas 12, 56106 (2005).
• C. R. Sovinec, B. I. Cohen, G. A. Cone, E. B. Hooper, and H. S. McLean,
"Numerical Investigation of Transients in the SSPX Spheromak,"
Physical Review Letters 94, 35003 (2005).
• C.R. Sovinec, A.H. Glasser, D.C. Barnes, T.A. Gianakon, R.A. Nebel, S.E. Kruger, D.D. Schnack, S.J. Plimpton, A. Tarditi, M.S. Chu and the NIMROD Team, "Nonlinear Magnetohydrodynamics with High-order Finite Elements," Journal of Computational Physics, 195, 355 (2004).
• C. C. Kim, C. R. Sovinec, S. E. Parker, and the NIMROD Team, "Hybrid Kinetic-MHD Simulations in General Geometry," Computer Physics Communications 164, 448 (2004).
• S.E. Kruger, C. R. Sovinec, D.D. Schnack, and E. D. Held,
``Free-boundary Simulations of DIII-D Plasmas with the NIMROD Code,''
 Computer Physics Communications 164, 34 (2004).
•   E. D. Held, J. D. Callen, C. C. Hegna, C. R. Sovinec, T. A. Gianakon, and S. E. Kruger,
``Nonlocal Closures for Plasma Fluid Simulations,''
Physics of Plasmas, 11, 2419 (2004).
• V. A. Izzo and T. R. Jarboe,
"A Numerical Assessment of the Lundquist Number Requirement for Relaxation Current Drive,"
Physics of Plasmas 11, 2903 (2004).
• C. R. Sovinec, T. A. Gianakon, E. D. Held, S. E. Kruger, D. D. Schnack and the NIMROD Team
``NIMROD: a computational laboratory for studying nonlinear fusion magnetohydrodynamics ''
Physics of Plasmas, 10, 1727 (2003).
• T.A. Gianakon, S.E. Kruger, and C.C. Hegna
"Heuristic closures for numerical simulation of neoclassical tearing modes,"
Physics of Plasmas, 9, 536 (2002).
• C. R. Sovinec, J. M. Finn, and D. del-Castillo-Negrete,
"Formation and Sustainment of Spheromaks in the Resistive MHD Model,"
Physics of Plasmas 8, 475 (2001).
• J. M. Finn, C. R. Sovinec, and D. del-Castillo-Negrete,
"Chaotic Scattering and Self-organization in Spheromak Sustainment,"
Physical Review Letters 85, 4538 (2000).
• A. H. Glasser, C. R. Sovinec, R. A. Nebel, T. A. Gianakon, S. J. Plimpton, M. S. Chu, D. D. Schnack, and the NIMROD Team,
"The NIMROD Code: A New Approach to Numerical Plasma Physics,"
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 41, A747 (1999).

Papers in which NIMROD simulations contributed to the results

• D. del-Castillo-Negrete, L. Carbajal, D. Spong, and V. Izzo, "Numerical simulation of runaway electrons: 3-D effects on synchrotron radiation and impurity-based runaway current dissipation," Physics of Plasmas 25, 056104 (2018).
• E. C. Howell and C. R. Sovinec, "Parameter-space survey of linear g-mode and interchange in extended magnetohydrodynamics," Physics of Plasmas 24, 102117 (2017).
• C. Akcay, J. M. Finn, R. A. Nebel, and D. C. Barnes, "Electrostatically driven helical plasma state," Physics of Plasmas 24, 052503 (2017).
• V. V. Mirnov, J. P. Sauppe, C. C. Hegna, and C. R. Sovinec, "Analytical and numerical treatment of resistive drift instability in a plasma slab," Plasma Physics Reports 42, 440 (2016).
• C. Hansen, B. Victor, K. Morgan, T. Jarboe, A. Hossack, G. Marklin, B. A. Nelson, D. Sutherland, "Numerical studies and metric development for validation of magnetohydrodynamic models on the HIT-SI experiment," Physics of Plasmas 22, 056105 (2015).
• B. S. Victor, C. Akcay, C. J. Hansen, T. R. Jarboe, B. A. Nelson, and K. D. Morgan, "Development of validation metrics using biorthogonal decomposition for the comparison of magnetic field measurements," Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 57, 045010 (2015).
• K. M. Velas and R. D. Milroy, "Probe measurements of the three-dimensional magnetic field structure in a rotating magnetic field sustained field- reversed configuration," Physics of Plasmas 21, 012502 (2014).
• D. D. Schnack, J. Cheng, D. C. Barnes, and S. E. Parker, "Comparison of kinetic and extended magnetohydrodynamics computational models for the linear ion temperature gradient instability in slab geometry," Physics of Plasmas 20, 062106 (2013).
• P. Zhu, J. Raeder, C. C. Hegna, and C. R. Sovinec, "Nature of axial tail instability and bubble-blob formation in near-Earth plasma sheet," J. Geophysical Research: Space Physics 118, 653 (2013).
• E. B. Hooper, R. H. Bulmer, B. I. Cohen, D. N. Hill, C. T. Holcomb, B. Hudson, H. S. Mclean, L. D. Pearlstein, C. A. Romera-Talamas, C. R. Sovinec, B. W. Stallard, R. D. Wood, and S. Woodruff, "Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment (SSPX): Design and Physics Results," Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 54, 113001 (2012).
• R. J. La Haye, R. J. Buttery, S. P. Gerhardt, S. A. Sabbagh, and D. P. Brennan, "Aspect ratio effects on neoclassical tearing modes from comparison between DIII-D and National Spherical Torus Experiment," Physics of Plasmas 19, 062506 (2012).
• N. A. Murphy, C. R. Sovinec, and P. A. Cassak, "Magnetic reconnection with asymmetry in the outflow direction," Journal of Geophysical Research 115, A09206 (2010).
• P. Zhu, C. C. Hegna, and C. R. Sovinec, "Exponential growth of nonlinear ballooning instability," Physical Review Letters 102, 235003 (2009).
• J. H. Yu, M. A. Van Zeeland, M. S. Chu, V. A. Izzo, and R. J. La Haye, "Fast imaging of transients and coeherent magnetohydrodynamics modes in DIII-D," Physics of Plasmas 16, 056114 (2009).
• J.-Y. Ji, E. D. Held, and C. R. Sovinec, "Moment approach to deriving parallel heat flow for general collisionality," Physics of Plasmas 16, 022312 (2009).
• T. K. Fowler, R. Jayakumar, and H. S. McLean, "Stable Spheromaks Sustained by Neutral Beam Injection," Journal of Fusion Energy 28, 118 (2009).
• J. A. Breslau, C. R. Sovinec, and S. C. Jardin, "An Improved Tokamak Sawtooth Benchmark for 3D Nonlinear MHD," Communications in Computational Physics 4, 647 (2008).
• R. D. Milroy and L. C. Steinhauer, "Toroidal Field Stabilization of the Rotational Instability in Field- Reversed Configurations," Physics of Plasmas 15, 022508 (2008).
• P. Zhu, D. D. Schnack, F. Ebrahimi, E. G. Zweibel, M. Suzuki, C. C. Hegna, and C. R. Sovinec, "Absence of Complete Finite-Larmor-Radius Stabilization in Extended MHD," Physical Review Letters 101, 085005 (2008).
• B. Hudson, R. D. Wood, H. S. McLean, E. B. Hooper, D. N. Hill, R. Jayakumar, J. Moller, C. A. Romero-Talamas, T. A. Casper, J. A. Johnson III, L. Lodestro, E. Mezonlin, and L. D. Pearlstein, "Energy confinement and magnetic field generation in the SSPX spheromak," Phys. Plasmas 15 56112 (2008).
• P. Zhu, C. C. Hegna, C. R. Sovinec, A. Bhattacharjee, and K. Germaschewski, "Intermediate nonlinear regime of a line-tied g mode," Physics of Plasmas 14, 055903 (2007).
• C. A. Romero-Talamas, E. B. Hooper, R. Jayakumar, H. S. McLean, R. D. Wood, and J. M. Moller, "Measurements and phenomenological modeling of magnetic flux buildup in spheromak plasmas," Physics of Plasmas 15, 042503 (2008).
• D.G. Whyte, R. Granetz , M. Bakhtiari , V. Izzo , T. Jernigan , J. Terry , M. Reinke , B. Lipschultz, "Disruption mitigation on Alcator C-Mod using high-pressure gas injection: Experiments and modeling toward ITER," Journal of Nuclear Materials 363-365, 1160 (2007).
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• P. Martin, L. Marrelli, G. Spizzo, P. Franz, P. Piovesan, I. Predebon, T. Bolzonella, S. Cappello, A. Cravotta, D. F. Escande, L. Frassinetti, S .Ortolani, R. Paccagnella, D. Terranova, B. E. Chapman, D. Craig, S. C. Prager, J. S. Sarff, P. Brunsell, J.-A. Malmberg, J. Drake, Y. Yagi, H Koguchi, Y. Hirano, R. B. White, C. Sovinec, C. Xiao, R. A. Nebel, D. D. Schnack, and the RFX, MST, EXTRAP T2R, and TPE-RX teams,
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"Theoretical Investigation of Field-Line Quality in a Driven Spheromak,"
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