Luca Guazzotto
Physics
Associate Professor

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Office: Leach Science Center 3106

Address:
380 Duncan Drive
Auburn, AL 36849

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

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Research and Teaching Interests

Research in equilibrium and stability properties of plasmas in the presence of macroscopic flow in magnetic-confinement devices. 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).
7. Two-fluid equilibrium with flow: FLOW2, L. Guazzotto and R. Betti, Phys. Plasmas, 22, 092503 (2015).
8.  
   Tokamak two-fluid ignition conditions, L Guazzotto and R Betti, Phys. Plasmas 24, 082504 (2017)