Carl R. Sovinec - Publications

Affiliations: 
Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI 
Area:
Fluid and Plasma Physics

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2020 Munaretto S, Chapman B, Cornille B, DuBois A, McCollam K, Sovinec C, Almagri A, Goetz J. Generation and suppression of runaway electrons in MST tokamak plasmas Nuclear Fusion. 60: 046024. DOI: 10.1088/1741-4326/Ab73C0  0.538
2020 Krebs I, Artola FJ, Sovinec CR, Jardin SC, Bunkers KJ, Hoelzl M, Ferraro NM. Axisymmetric simulations of vertical displacement events in tokamaks: A benchmark of M3D-C1, NIMROD, and JOREK Physics of Plasmas. 27: 022505. DOI: 10.1063/1.5127664  0.749
2019 Sovinec CR, Bunkers KJ. Effects of asymmetries in computations of forced vertical displacement events Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 61: 024003. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6587/Aaf124  0.71
2019 Peterson EE, Endrizzi DA, Beidler M, Bunkers KJ, Clark M, Egedal J, Flanagan K, McCollam KJ, Milhone J, Olson J, Sovinec CR, Waleffe R, Wallace J, Forest CB. A laboratory model for the Parker spiral and magnetized stellar winds Nature Physics. 15: 1095-1100. DOI: 10.1038/S41567-019-0592-7  0.754
2018 Beidler MT, Callen JD, Hegna CC, Sovinec CR. Mode penetration induced by transient magnetic perturbations Physics of Plasmas. 25: 082507. DOI: 10.1063/1.5046076  0.509
2018 Beidler MT, Callen JD, Hegna CC, Sovinec CR. Erratum: “Nonlinear modeling of forced magnetic reconnection in slab geometry with NIMROD” [Phys. Plasmas 24, 052508 (2017)] Physics of Plasmas. 25: 049901. DOI: 10.1063/1.5029935  0.47
2017 Howell EC, Sovinec CR. Parameter-space survey of linear G-mode and interchange in extended magnetohydrodynamics Physics of Plasmas. 24: 102117. DOI: 10.1063/1.4993440  0.355
2017 Beidler MT, Callen JD, Hegna CC, Sovinec CR. Nonlinear modeling of forced magnetic reconnection in slab geometry with NIMROD Physics of Plasmas. 24: 052508. DOI: 10.1063/1.4982814  0.486
2017 Sauppe JP, Sovinec CR. Extended MHD modeling of tearing-driven magnetic relaxation Physics of Plasmas. 24: 56107. DOI: 10.1063/1.4977540  0.787
2016 Mirnov VV, Sauppe JP, Hegna CC, Sovinec CR. Analytical and numerical treatment of resistive drift instability in a plasma slab Plasma Physics Reports. 42: 440-449. DOI: 10.1134/S1063780X16050123  0.788
2016 Hooper EB, Sovinec CR. A current-driven resistive instability and its nonlinear effects in simulations of coaxial helicity injection in a tokamak Physics of Plasmas. 23: 102502. DOI: 10.1063/1.4964292  0.526
2016 Roberds NA, Guazzotto L, Hanson JD, Herfindal JL, Howell EC, Maurer DA, Sovinec CR. Simulations of sawtoothing in a current carrying stellarator Physics of Plasmas. 23: 092513. DOI: 10.1063/1.4962990  0.437
2016 Sauppe JP, Sovinec CR. Two-fluid and finite Larmor radius effects on helicity evolution in a plasma pinch Physics of Plasmas. 23. DOI: 10.1063/1.4942761  0.802
2016 Sovinec CR. Stabilization of numerical interchange in spectral-element magnetohydrodynamics Journal of Computational Physics. 319: 61-78. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jcp.2016.04.063  0.415
2015 Zhu P, Sovinec CR, Hegna CC. The formation of blobs from a pure interchange process Physics of Plasmas. 22. DOI: 10.1063/1.4913476  0.396
2014 O'Bryan JB, Sovinec CR. Simulated flux-rope evolution during non-inductive startup in Pegasus Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 56. DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/56/6/064005  0.756
2014 Ebrahimi F, Raman R, Hooper EB, Sovinec CR, Bhattacharjee A. Physics of forced magnetic reconnection in coaxial helicity injection experiments in National Spherical Torus Experiment Physics of Plasmas. 21. DOI: 10.1063/1.4875337  0.465
2014 Hendries ER, Anderson JK, Diem S, Forest CB, Harvey RW, Reusch JA, Seltzman AH, Sovinec CR. MHD simulation of RF current drive in MST Aip Conference Proceedings. 1580: 510-513. DOI: 10.1063/1.4864600  0.357
2014 Howell EC, Sovinec CR. Solving the Grad-Shafranov equation with spectral elements Computer Physics Communications. 185: 1415-1421. DOI: 10.1016/J.Cpc.2014.02.008  0.303
2013 Sarff JS, Almagri AF, Anderson JK, Borchardt M, Carmody D, Caspary K, Chapman BE, Den Hartog DJ, Duff J, Eilerman S, Falkowski A, Forest CB, Goetz JA, Holly DJ, Kim JH, ... ... Sovinec CR, et al. Overview of results from the MST reversed field pinch experiment Nuclear Fusion. 53. DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/53/10/104017  0.379
2013 Hooper EB, Sovinec CR, Raman R, Ebrahimi F, Menard JE. Resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations of helicity-injected startup plasmas in National Spherical Torus eXperiment Physics of Plasmas. 20. DOI: 10.1063/1.4821977  0.476
2013 Ebrahimi F, Hooper EB, Sovinec CR, Raman R. Magnetic reconnection process in transient coaxial helicity injection Physics of Plasmas. 20. DOI: 10.1063/1.4821974  0.507
2013 Schlutt MG, Hegna CC, Sovinec CR, Held ED, Kruger SE. Self-consistent simulations of nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics and profile evolution in stellarator configurations Physics of Plasmas. 20. DOI: 10.1063/1.4802834  0.482
2013 Zhu P, Raeder J, Hegna CC, Sovinec CR. Nature of axial tail instability and bubble-blob formation in near-Earth plasma sheet Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 118: 653-663. DOI: 10.1029/2012Ja017972  0.53
2012 Hooper EB, Bulmer RH, Cohen BI, Hill DN, Holcomb CT, Hudson B, McLean HS, Pearlstein LD, Romero-Talamás CA, Sovinec CR, Stallard BW, Wood RD, Woodruff S. Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment (SSPX): Design and physics results Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 54. DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/54/11/113001  0.475
2012 Schlutt MG, Hegna CC, Sovinec CR, Knowlton SF, Hebert JD. Numerical simulation of current evolution in the Compact Toroidal Hybrid Nuclear Fusion. 52. DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/52/10/103023  0.465
2012 O'Bryan JB, Sovinec CR, Bird TM. Simulation of current-filament dynamics and relaxation in the Pegasus Spherical Tokamak Physics of Plasmas. 19. DOI: 10.1063/1.4746089  0.497
2012 King JR, Sovinec CR, Mirnov VV. First-order finite-Larmor-radius fluid modeling of tearing and relaxation in a plasma pinch Physics of Plasmas. 19. DOI: 10.1063/1.3695346  0.422
2012 Zhu P, Hegna CC, Sovinec CR. Stabilizing effects of edge current density on pedestal instabilities Physics of Plasmas. 19. DOI: 10.1063/1.3692089  0.429
2011 King JR, Sovinec CR, Mirnov VV. First-order finite-Larmor-radius effects on magnetic tearing in pinch configurations Physics of Plasmas. 18. DOI: 10.1063/1.3571599  0.442
2010 Milroy RD, Kim CC, Sovinec CR. Extended magnetohydrodynamic simulations of field reversed configuration formation and sustainment with rotating magnetic field current drive Physics of Plasmas. 17. DOI: 10.1063/1.3436630  0.456
2010 Burke BJ, Kruger SE, Hegna CC, Zhu P, Snyder PB, Sovinec CR, Howell EC. Edge localized linear ideal magnetohydrodynamic instability studies in an extended-magnetohydrodynamic code Physics of Plasmas. 17. DOI: 10.1063/1.3309732  0.389
2010 Jenkins TG, Kruger SE, Hegna CC, Schnack DD, Sovinec CR. Calculating electron cyclotron current drive stabilization of resistive tearing modes in a nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic model Physics of Plasmas. 17. DOI: 10.1063/1.3276740  0.408
2010 Murphy NA, Sovinec CR, Cassak PA. Magnetic reconnection with asymmetry in the outflow direction Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 115. DOI: 10.1029/2009Ja015183  0.462
2010 Sovinec CR, King JR. Analysis of a mixed semi-implicit/implicit algorithm for low-frequency two-fluid plasma modeling Journal of Computational Physics. 229: 5803-5819. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jcp.2010.04.022  0.422
2009 Zhu P, Hegna CC, Sovinec CR. Exponential growth of nonlinear ballooning instability. Physical Review Letters. 102: 235003. PMID 19658943 DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.102.235003  0.347
2009 Zhu P, Hegna CC, Sovinec CR, Bhattacharjee A, Germaschewski K. Intermediate nonlinear regimes of line-tied g mode and ballooning instability Nuclear Fusion. 49. DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/49/9/095009  0.391
2009 Carey CS, Sovinec CR. Rotational stabilization of magnetically collimated jets Astrophysical Journal. 699: 362-372. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/699/1/362  0.453
2008 Zhu P, Schnack DD, Ebrahimi F, Zweibel EG, Suzuki M, Hegna CC, Sovinec CR. Absence of complete finite-Larmor-radius stabilization in extended MHD. Physical Review Letters. 101: 085005. PMID 18764628 DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.101.085005  0.56
2008 Carey CS, Sovinec CR, Heinz S, Everett JE. Magnetic collimation and magnetohydrodynamic kink instability driven by differential rotation International Journal of Modern Physics D. 17: 1707-1713. DOI: 10.1142/S0218271808013327  0.456
2008 Reynolds JM, Sovinec CR, Prager SC. Nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics of pulsed parallel current drive in reversed-field pinches Physics of Plasmas. 15. DOI: 10.1063/1.2937770  0.655
2008 Murphy NA, Sovinec CR. Global axisymmetric simulations of two-fluid reconnection in an experimentally relevant geometry Physics of Plasmas. 15. DOI: 10.1063/1.2904600  0.461
2008 Hooper EB, Cohen BI, McLean HS, Wood RD, Romero-Talamás CA, Sovinec CR. NIMROD resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations of spheromak physics Physics of Plasmas. 15. DOI: 10.1063/1.2890772  0.451
2008 Milroy RD, MacNab AID, Kim CC, Sovinec CR. FRC simulations using the NIMROD code Journal of Fusion Energy. 27: 73-76. DOI: 10.1007/S10894-007-9089-Y  0.465
2007 Ebrahimi F, Mirnov VV, Prager SC, Sovinec CR. Momentum transport from current-driven reconnection in the reversed field pinch. Physical Review Letters. 99: 075003. PMID 17930902 DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.99.075003  0.684
2007 Murphy N, Sovinec C. Global Two-Fluid Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 50. DOI: 10.5281/Zenodo.47873  0.42
2007 Pankin AY, Bateman G, Brennan DP, Kritz AH, Kruger S, Snyder PB, Sovinec C. Modelling of ELM dynamics for DIII-D and ITER Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 49. DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/49/7/S04  0.413
2007 MacNab AID, Milroy RD, Kim CC, Sovinec CR. Hall magnetohydrodynamics simulations of end-shorting induced rotation in field-reversed configurations Physics of Plasmas. 14. DOI: 10.1063/1.2768017  0.392
2007 Zhu P, Hegna CC, Sovinec CR, Bhattacharjee A, Germaschewski K. Intermediate nonlinear regime of a line-tied g mode Physics of Plasmas. 14. DOI: 10.1063/1.2671230  0.337
2007 Zhu P, Sovinec CR, Hegna CC, Bhattacharjee A, Germaschewski K. Nonlinear ballooning instability in the near-Earth magnetotail: Growth, structure, and possible role in substorms Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 112. DOI: 10.1029/2006Ja011991  0.381
2007 Craig D, Goldston R, Jarboe TR, Nelson BA, Sovinec CR, Woodruff S, Wurden G. Chair summaries from the 2006 Innovative Confinement Concepts (ICC) workshop Journal of Fusion Energy. 26: 3-15. DOI: 10.1007/S10894-006-9073-Y  0.619
2007 MacNab AID, Barnes DC, Milroy RD, Kim CC, Sovinec CR. Simulations of the field-reversed configuration with the NIMROD code Journal of Fusion Energy. 26: 113-117. DOI: 10.1007/S10894-006-9070-1  0.44
2007 Hooper EB, Cohen BI, Hill DN, Lodestro LL, McLean HS, Romero-Talamás CA, Wood RD, Sovinec CR. Magnetic reconnection in the spheromak: Physics and consequences Journal of Fusion Energy. 26: 71-75. DOI: 10.1007/S10894-006-9065-Y  0.473
2006 Brennan DP, Kruger SE, Schnack DD, Sovinec CR, Pankin A. Computing nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic edge localized instabilities in fusion plasmas Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 46: 63-72. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/46/1/009  0.328
2006 Zhu P, Hegna CC, Sovinec CR. Nonlinear growth of a line-tied g mode near marginal stability Physics of Plasmas. 13. DOI: 10.1063/1.2358505  0.397
2006 Huang YM, Zwelbel EG, Sovinec CR. m=1 ideal internal kink modes in a line-tied screw pinch Physics of Plasmas. 13. DOI: 10.1063/1.2336506  0.342
2006 Schnack DD, Barnes DC, Brennan DP, Hegna CC, Held E, Kim CC, Kruger SE, Pankin AY, Sovinec CR. Computational modeling of fully ionized magnetized plasmas using the fluid approximation Physics of Plasmas. 13. DOI: 10.1063/1.2183738  0.424
2005 Sovinec CR, Cohen BI, Cone GA, Hooper EB, McLean HS. Numerical investigation of transients in the SSPX Spheromak. Physical Review Letters. 94: 035003. PMID 15698276 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.035003  0.337
2005 Hooper EB, Kopriva TA, Cohen BI, Hill DN, McLean HS, Wood RD, Woodruff S, Sovinec CR. Magnetic reconnection during flux conversion in a driven spheromak Physics of Plasmas. 12: 1-11. DOI: 10.1063/1.2040207  0.421
2005 Ryutov DD, Cohen BI, Cohen RH, Hooper EB, Sovinec CR. The effect of artificial diffusivity on the flute instability Physics of Plasmas. 12: 1-4. DOI: 10.1063/1.2030367  0.307
2005 Woodruff S, Cohen BI, Hooper EB, McLean HS, Stallard BW, Hill DN, Holcomb CT, Romero-Talamas C, Wood RD, Cone G, Sovinec CR. Controlled and spontaneous magnetic field generation in a gun-driven spheromak Physics of Plasmas. 12: 1-13. DOI: 10.1063/1.1878772  0.458
2005 Kruger SE, Schnack DD, Sovinec CR. Dynamics of the major disruption of a DIII-D plasma Physics of Plasmas. 12: 1-10. DOI: 10.1063/1.1873872  0.469
2005 Cohen BI, Hooper EB, Cohen RH, Hill DN, McLean HS, Wood RD, Woodruff S, Sovinec CR, Cone GA. Simulation of spheromak evolution and energy confinement Physics of Plasmas. 12: 1-9. DOI: 10.1063/1.1869501  0.444
2004 Held ED, Callen JD, Hegna CC, Sovinec CR, Gianakon TA, Kruger SE. Nonlocal closures for plasma fluid simulations Physics of Plasmas. 11: 2419-2426. DOI: 10.1063/1.1645520  0.422
2004 Sovinec CR, Glasser AH, Gianakon TA, Barnes DC, Nebel RA, Kruger SE, Schnack DD, Plimpton SJ, Tarditi A, Chu MS. Nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics simulation using high-order finite elements Journal of Computational Physics. 195: 355-386. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jcp.2003.10.004  0.416
2004 Kruger SE, Sovinec CR, Schnack DD, Held ED. Free-boundary simulations of DIII-D plasmas with the NIMROD code Computer Physics Communications. 164: 34-39. DOI: 10.1016/J.Cpc.2004.06.006  0.37
2003 Martin P, Marrelli L, Spizzo G, Franz P, Piovesan P, Predebon I, Bolzonella T, Cappello S, Cravotta A, Escande DF, Frassinetti L, Ortolani S, Paccagnella R, Terranova D, Chapman BE, ... ... Sovinec C, et al. Overview of quasi-single helicity experiments in reversed field pinches Nuclear Fusion. 43: 1855-1862. DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/43/12/028  0.766
2003 Cohen RH, Berk HL, Cohen BI, Fowler TK, Hooper EB, LoDestro LL, Morse EC, Pearlstein LD, Rognlien TD, Ryutov DD, Sovinec CR, Woodruff S. Theoretical investigation of field-line quality in a driven spheromak Nuclear Fusion. 43: 1220-1234. DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/43/10/025  0.441
2003 Sovinec CR, Gianakon TA, Held ED, Kruger SE, Schnack DD. NIMROD: A computational laboratory for studying nonlinear fusion magnetohydrodynamics Physics of Plasmas. 10: 1727-1732. DOI: 10.1063/1.1560920  0.404
2002 Ebrahimi F, Prager SC, Sovinec CR. Resistive-ideal transition of pressure-driven instabilities in current-carrying plasmas beyond the Suydam criterion Physics of Plasmas. 9: 2470. DOI: 10.1063/1.1481860  0.674
2001 Held ED, Callen JD, Hegna CC, Sovinec CR. Conductive electron heat flow along magnetic field lines Physics of Plasmas. 8: 1171-1179. DOI: 10.1063/1.1349876  0.368
2001 Sovinec CR, Finn JM, Del-Castillo-Negrete D. Formation and sustainment of electrostatically driven spheromaks in the resistive magnetohydrodynamic model Physics of Plasmas. 8: 475-490. DOI: 10.1063/1.1335585  0.509
2000 Finn JM, Sovinec CR, del-Castillo-Negrete D. Chaotic scattering and self-organization in spheromak sustainment Physical Review Letters. 85: 4538-41. PMID 11082590 DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.85.4538  0.374
2000 Finn JM, Sovinec CR, Del-Castillo-Negrete D. Chaotic scattering and self-organization in spheromak sustainment Physical Review Letters. 85: 4538-4541. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4538  0.367
1999 Glasser AH, Sovinec CR, Nebel RA, Gianakon TA, Plimpton SJ, Chu MS, Schnack DD. The NIMROD code: A new approach to numerical plasma physics Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 41: A747-A755. DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/41/3A/067  0.431
1999 Sovinec CR, Prager SC. Magnetohydrodynamic effects of current profile control in reversed field pinches Nuclear Fusion. 39: 777-790. DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/39/6/306  0.692
1998 Finn JM, Sovinec CR. Nonlinear tearing modes in the presence of resistive wall and rotation Physics of Plasmas. 5: 461-480. DOI: 10.1063/1.872730  0.398
1998 Peterkin RE, Frese MH, Sovinec CR. Transport of Magnetic Flux in an Arbitrary Coordinate ALE Code Journal of Computational Physics. 140: 148-171. DOI: 10.1006/Jcph.1998.5880  0.382
1996 Fiksel G, Bengtson RD, Cekic M, Den Hartog D, Prager SC, Pribyl P, Sarff J, Sovinec C, Stoneking MR, Taylor RJ, Terry PW, Tynan GR, Wootton AJ. Measurement of magnetic fluctuation-induced heat transport in tokamaks and RFP Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 38: A213-A225. DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/38/12A/016  0.663
1996 Sovinec CR, Prager SC. Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of direct current helicity injection for current drive in tokamaks Physics of Plasmas. 3: 1038-1046. DOI: 10.1063/1.871759  0.643
1995 Sarff JS, Almagri AF, Cekic M, Chaing C‐, Craig D, Hartog DJD, Fiksel G, Hokin SA, Harvey RW, Ji H, Litwin C, Prager SC, Sinitsyn D, Sovinec CR, Sprott JC, et al. Transport reduction by current profile control in the reversed-field pinch Physics of Plasmas. 2: 2440-2446. DOI: 10.1063/1.871268  0.77
1994 Sarff JS, Hokin SA, Ji H, Prager SC, Sovinec CR. Fluctuation and transport reduction in a reversed field pinch by inductive poloidal current drive. Physical Review Letters. 72: 3670-3673. PMID 10056260 DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.72.3670  0.644
1994 Hokin S, Sarff JS, Sovinec C, Uchimoto E. Confinement improvement with RF poloidal current drive in the reversed field pinch Nuclear Fusion. 34: 1447-1452. DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/34/11/I03  0.43
1994 Uchimoto E, Cekic M, Harvey RW, Litwin C, Prager SC, Sarff JS, Sovinec CR. Lower‐hybrid poloidal current drive for fluctuation reduction in a reversed field pinch Physics of Plasmas. 1: 3517-3519. DOI: 10.1063/1.870886  0.632
1993 Degnan JH, Peterkin RE, Baca GP, Beason JD, Bell DE, Dearborn ME, Dietz D, Douglas MR, Englert SE, Englert TJ, Hackett KE, Holmes JH, Hussey TW, Kiuttu GF, Lehr FM, ... ... Sovinec CR, et al. Compact toroid formation, compression, and acceleration Physics of Fluids B. 5: 2938-2958. DOI: 10.1063/1.860681  0.455
1989 Clouse CJ, Baker WL, Beason JD, Degnan JH, Dietz D, Rowley JE, Sovinec CR, Buff JS, Frese MH, Peterkin RE, Roderick NF. Computational modelling of compact toroidal plasas . 119.  0.339
1988 Peterkin RE, Buff J, Frese MH, Roderick NF, Clouse CJ, Dietz D, Hackett KE, Rowley JE, Sovinec CR. Computer simulations of compact toroid formation and acceleration . 67-68.  0.401
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