Dr. Alkesh Ramprakash Punjabi
- Position: Research Professor, Director, Center for Fusion Research & Training
- Educational background:
B.Sc., St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad, India
M.Sc., University School of Science, Ahmedabad, India
Ph.D., College of William and Mary, Virginia, USA. - Research interests: Nuclear Fusion and nonlinear dynamics
- Selected publications
- An area-preserving mapping in natural canonical coordinates for magnetic field line trajectories in the DIII-D tokamak, A. Punjabi, Nucl. Fusion 49, 115020 (2009).
- An accurate symplectic calculation of the inboard magnetic footprint from statistical topological noise and field errors in the DIII-D, A. Punjabi and H. Ali, Phys. Plasmas 18, 022509 (2011)
- Symplectic calculation of the outboard magnetic footprint from noise and error fields in the DIII-D, H. Ali, A. Punjabi, and Ernest Nyaku, J. Plasma Phys. 77, 785-802 (2011)
- Magnetic barriers and their q95 dependence at DIII-D, F.A. Volpe, J. Kessler, H. Ali, T.E. Evans and A. Punjabi, Nucl. Fus. 52, 054017 (2012)
- Homoclinic tangle in tokamak divertors, A. Punjabi and A. Boozer, Phys. Lett. A, 378, 2410 (2014)
- Homoclinic tangle of the ideal separatrix in the DIII-D tokamak from (30, 10) + (40, 10) Perturbation, A. Punjabi, Phys. Plasmas 21, 122516 (2014)
- Loss of relativistic electrons when magnetic surfaces are broken, A. Boozer and A. Punjabi, Phys. Plasmas 23, 102513 (2016)
- Simulation of stellarator divertors, A. H. Boozer and A. Punjabi, Phys. Plasmas 25, 092505 (2018)
- Simulation of nonresonant stellarator divertor (Editor’s Choice), A. Punjabi and A. H. Boozer, Phys. Plasmas 27, 012503 (2020)
- Magnetic turnstiles in nonresonant stellarator divertor, A. Punjabi and A. H. Boozer, Phys. Plasmas 29, 012502 (2022)
