Mingyun is interested in theoretical plasma physics, with a focus on magnetic confinement fusion. He is currently studying plasma turbulence in stochastic magnetic fields, which is critical to the trade-off between good confinement and good power handling in a tokamak.
In future studies, Mingyun anticipates collaborating on DIII-D experiments to investigate plasma dynamics and improve tokamak phenomenology experimental data processing.
Mingyun earned a B.S. in Physics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2020.
Email: m2cao@ucsd.edu
Center for Space and Astrophysics Sciences: cass.ucsd.edu
Quasi-mode Evolution in a Stochastic Magnetic Field
Cao, Mingyun, and P.H. Diamond
Nucl. Fusion 64, 036003, 2024; doi:10.1088/1741-4326/ad1e94
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How the Birth and Death of Shear Layers Determine Confinement Evolution: From the L → H Transition to the Density Limit
Diamond, P.H., Rameswar Singh, Ting Long, Rongjie Hong, Rui Ke, Zheng Yan, Mingyun Cao and G.R. Tynan
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 381, 20210227, 2023; doi:10.1098/rsta.2021.0227
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Instability and Turbulent Relaxation in a Stochastic Magnetic Field
Cao, Mingyun and P.H. Diamond
Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion, 2022; doi:10.1088/1361-6587/ac47d7
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