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Luca Guazzotto
Associate Professor

Office: 220 Allison Laboratory

Address:
206 Allison Laboratory
Auburn, AL 36849-5319

Phone: (334) 844-4692
Fax: (334) 844-4613
Email: luca.guazzotto@auburn.edu

Education
Ph.D., University of Rochester 2005
M.S., University of Rochester 2002
Laurea in Ingegneria Nucleare (Nuclear Engineering) 2002


Professional Employment
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Auburn University 2014
Assistant Professor (research), University of Rochester 2012-2014
Visiting Scientist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 2010- present
Research Associate, University of Rochester 2008-2012
RFX- Group Collaborator, CNR Instituto Gas Ionizzati 2007-2008
Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Post-doctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2005-2007
Research Assistant, University of Rochester 2000-2005


Research and Teaching Interests

Research in equliibrium and stability properties of plasmas in the presence of macroscopic flow in magnetic-confinement devicces. Teaching plasma physics and magnetohydrodynamics related classes.



Selected Publications
  1. Numerical study of tokamak equilibria with arbitrary flow, L. Guazzotto, R. Betti, J. Manickam and S. Kaye, Phys. Plasmas 11, 604 (2004)
  2. Magnetohydrodynamics equilibria with toroidal and poloidal flow, L. Guazzotto and R. Betti, Phys. Plasmas 12, 056107 (2005)
  3. A family of analytic equilibrium solutions for the Grad-Shafranov equation, L. Guazzotto and J. P. Freidberg, Phys. Plasmas 14, 112508 (2007)
  4. A general formulation of magnetohydrodynamic stability including flow and a resistive wall, L. Guazzotto, J. P. Freidberg and R. Betti,  Phys. Plasmas 15, 072503 (2008)
  5. A magnetohydrodynamic mechanism for pedestal formation, L. Guazzotto and R. Betti, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 125002 (2011).
  6. Two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of poloidal flows in tokamaks and MHD pedestal, L. Guazzotto and R. Betti, Phys. Plasmas, 18, 092509 (2011).


Last updated: 05/07/2015

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