Scott E. Parker Scott E. Parker Scott Parker's Home Page Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1990. Primary research is in the area of direct numerical simulation and basic theoretical understanding of plasma turbulence and transport.
Research includes large-scale simulations of tokamak plasma turbulence.
These calculations involve many millions of simulation particles and must fully utilize the newest and most powerful massively parallel computers. For the first time, these fully nonlinear simulations have shown spectral features and transport levels similar to that observed in large present-day experiments. Other active research areas include theoretical and computational research on kinetic-fluid hybrid models, and renormalization procedures for collisionless kinetic systems. It is used on earth for technology, such as fluorescent lighting and for fabricating microchips. A tokamak is a donut shaped magnetic confinement device used for studying production of fusion energy in the laboratory.