Jiacong Li

"Nuclear fusion is the ideal clean energy... There are many interesting physics problems to be curious about."

Ph.D. Student — University of California San Diego

Jiacong Li conducted research on interactions between waves and flows in plasma turbulence.

Mr. Li developed theoretical and computational models focusing on:

• The generation of intrinsic parallel flows at zero magnetic shear
• Wave–flow resonance effects on stability and zonal flow saturation
• Dynamical competition between instrinsic parallel and perpendicular flows

In 2016, Mr. Li received a U.S. Transport Task Force Workshop student prize. He has presented his research on intrinsic flows at scientific meetings, including U.S. Transport Task Force workshops and annual meetings of the APS Division of Plasma Physics.

Mr. Li was also a visiting graduate student researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2015.

He earned a bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics from Tsinghua University (Beijing, China).

Publications

How Shear Increments Affect the Flow Production Branching Ratio in CSDX
Li, J.C. and P.H. Diamond
Phys. Plasmas 25, 062112, 2018; doi:10.1063/1.5033911
[pdf, accepted manuscript]

Another Look at Zonal Flows: Resonance, Shearing, and Frictionless Saturation
Li, J.C. and P.H. Diamond
Phys. Plasmas 25, 042113, 2018; doi:10.1063/1.5027107
[pdf, author's final version]

Tracing the Pathway from Drift-Wave Turbulence with Broken Symmetry to the Production of Sheared Axial Mean Flow
Hong, R., J.C. Li, S. Chakraborty Thakur, R. Hajjar, P.H. Diamond, and G.R. Tynan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 205001, 2018; doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.205001
[pdf, publisher's version]

Generation of Parasitic Axial Flow by Drift Wave Turbulence with Broken Symmetry: Theory and Experiment
Hong, R., J.C. Li, R. Hajjar, S. Chakraborty Thakur, P.H. Diamond, and G.R. Tynan
Phys. Plasmas 25, 055710, 2018; doi:10.1063/1.5017884
[pdf, author's final version (accepted manuscript)]

Intrinsic Plasma Flows in Straight Magnetic Fields: Generation, Frictionless Saturation, and Interaction
Li, Jiacong
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Physics, UC San Diego, 2018
[pdf, author's version]

Negative Viscosity from Negative Compressibility and Axial Flow Shear Stiffness in a Straight Magnetic Field
J.C. Li and P.H. Diamond
Physics of Plasmas 24, 032117, 2017; doi:10.1063/1.4978956

Dynamics of intrinsic axial flows in unsheared, uniform magnetic fields
J.C. Li, P.H. Diamond, X.Q. Xu and G.R. Tynan
Physics of Plasmas 23, 052311, 2016; doi:10.1063/1.4950830

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