First Author Publications

  1. A.J. Creely, D. Brunner, R.T. Mumgaard, M.L. Reinke, M. Segal, B.N. Sorbom, and M.J. Greenwald, SPARC as a platform to advance tokamak science, Physics of Plasmas 30, 090601 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0162457.
  2. A.J. Creely, M. J. Greenwald, S. B. Ballinger, D. Brunner, J. Canik, J. Doody, T. Fülöp, D. T. Garnier, R. Granetz, T. K. Gray, C. Holland, N. T. Howard, J. W. Hughes, J. H. Irby, V. A. Izzo, G. J. Kramer, A. Q. Kuang, B. LaBombard, Y. Lin, B. Lipschultz, N. C. Logan, J. D. Lore, E. S. Marmar, K. Montes, R. T. Mumgaard, C. Paz-Soldan, C. Rea, M. L. Reinke, P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, K. Särkimäki, F. Sciortino, S. D. Scott, A. Snicker, P. B. Snyder, B. N. Sorbom, R. Sweeney, R. A. Tinguely, E. A. Tolman, M. Umansky, O. Vallhagen, J. Varje, D. G. Whyte, J. C. Wright, S. J. Wukitch, J. Zhu, and the SPARC Team, Overview of the SPARC tokamak, Journal of Plasma Physics 86 (5), 865860502 (2020). http://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377820001257.
  3. A. J. Creely, L. M. Milanese, E. A. Tolman, J. H. Irby, S. B. Ballinger, S. Frank, A. Q. Kuang, B. L. Linehan, W. McCarthy, K. J. Montes, T. Mouratidis, J. F. Picard, P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, A. M. Rosenthal, A. J. Sandberg, F. Sciortino, R. A. Simpson, R. A. Tinguely, M. Zhou, and A. E. White, Design study of a combined interferometer and polarimeter for a high-field, compact tokamak, Physics of Plasmas 27, 042516 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5142638.
  4. A. J. Creely, P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, G.D. Conway, S.J. Freethy, N.T. Howard,A.E. White, and The ASDEX Upgrade Team, Criteria for the importance of multi-scale interactions in turbulent transport simulations, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 61, 085022 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ab24ae.
  5. A. J. Creely, T. Görler, G.D. Conway, S.J. Freethy, N.T. Howard, P.A. Schneider, A.E. White, M. Willensdorfer, and The ASDEX Upgrade Team, Validation study of GENE on ASDEX Upgrade using perturbative thermal diffusivity measured with partial sawtooth heat pulses, Nuclear Fusion 58, 126001 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aadca1.
  6. A. J. Creely, S. J. Freethy, W. M. Burke, G. D. Conway, R. Leccacorvi, W. C. Parkin, D. R. Terry, and A. E. White, Correlation electron cyclotron emission diagnostic and improved calculation of turbulent temperature fluctuation levels on ASDEX Upgrade, Review of Scientific Instruments 89,  053503 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5005507.
  7. A. J. Creely, K. Ida, M. Yoshinuma, T. Tokuzawa, T. Tsujimura, T. Akiyama, R. Sakamoto, M. Emoto, K. Tanaka, and C.A. Michael, Novel Analysis Technique for Measuring Edge Density Fluctuation Profiles with Reflectometry in the Large Helical Device, Review of Scientific Instruments 88, 073509 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4993437. 
  8. A. J. Creely, N. T. Howard, P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, N. Cao, A. E. Hubbard, J. W. Hughes, J. E. Rice, A. E. White, J. Candy and G. M. Staebler, G. D. Conway, S. J. Freethy, and C. Sung, Validation of Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Simulations of L- and I-mode Plasmas on Alcator C-Mod, Physics of Plasmas 24, 056104 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4977466.
  9. A. J. Creely, A. E. White, E. M. Edlund, N. T. Howard, and A. E. Hubbard, Perturbative Thermal Diffusivity from Partial Sawtooth Crashes in Alcator C-Mod, Nuclear Fusion 56, 036003 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/56/3/036003.

Co-Author Publications

  1. J. F. Parisi, A. O. Nelson, R. Gaur, S. M. Kaye, F. I. Parra, J. W. Berkery, K. Barada, C. Clauser, A. J. Creely, A. Diallo, W. Guttenfelder, J. W. Hughes, L. A. Kogan, A. Kleiner, A. Q. Kuang, M. Lampert, T. Macwan, J. E. Menard, M. A. Miller, Kinetic-ballooning-bifurcation in tokamak pedestals across shaping and aspect-ratio, Physics of Plasmas 31, 030702 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0190818.
  2. A. F. Battey, C. Hansen, D. Garnier, D. Weisberg, C. Paz-Soldan1 R. Sweeney, R. A. Tinguely, and A. J. Creely, Design of passive and structural conductors for tokamaks using thin-wall eddy current modeling, Nuclear Fusion 64, 016010 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ad0bcf.
  3. I. G. Stewart, R. S. Granetz, C. E. Myers, C. Paz-Soldan, R. Sweeney, C. J. Hansen, D. T. Garnier, D. J. Battaglia, A. J. Creely, and M.L. Reinke, Optimization of the equilibrium magnetic sensor set for the SPARC tokamak, Nuclear Fusion 63, 126014 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/acf600.
  4. P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, A. J. Creely, M. J. Greenwald, D. Brunner, S. B. Ballinger, C. P. Chrobak, D. T. Garnier, R. Granetz, Z. S. Hartwig, N. T. Howard, J. W. Hughes, J. H. Irby, V. A. Izzo, A. Q. Kuang, Y. Lin, E. S. Marmar, R. T. Mumgaard, C. Rea, M. L. Reinke, V. Riccardo, J.E. Rice, S.D. Scott, B.N. Sorbom, J.A. Stillerman, R. Sweeney, R.A. Tinguely, D.G. Whyte, J.C. Wright, and D. V. Yuryev, Overview of the SPARC physics basis towards the exploration of burning-plasma regimes in high-field, compact tokamak, Nuclear Fusion 62, 042003 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ac1654.
  5. P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, N. T. Howard, M. J. Greenwald, A. J. Creely, J. W. Hughes, J. C. Wright, J. C. Holland, Y. Lin, F. Sciortino, & the SPARC Team, Predictions of core plasma performance for the SPARC tokamak, Journal of Plasma Physics 86 (5), 865860503 (2020). http://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377820001075.
  6. J. W. Hughes, N. T. Howard, P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, A. J. Creely, A. Q. Kuang, P. B. Snyder, T. M. Wilks, R. Sweeney, and M. Greenwald, Projections of H-mode access and edge pedestal in the SPARC tokamak, Journal of Plasma Physics 86 (5), 865860504 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377820001300. 
  7. A. Q. Kuang, S. Ballinger, D. Brunner, J. Canik, A. J. Creely, T. Gray, M. Greenwald, J. W. Hughes, J. Irby, B. LaBombard, B. Lipschultz, J. D. Lore, M. L. Reinke, J. L. Terry, M. Umansky, D. G. Whyte, S. Wukitch, and the SPARC Team, Divertor heat flux challenge and mitigation in SPARC, Journal of Plasma Physics 86 (5), 865860505 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377820001117. 
  8. R. Sweeney, A. J. Creely, J. Doody, T. Fülöp, D. T. Garnier, R. Granetz, M. Greenwald, L. Hesslow, J. Irby, V. A. Izzo, R. J. La Haye, N. C. Logan, K. Montes, C. Paz-Soldan, C. Rea, R. A. Tinguely, O. Vallhagen, and J. Zhu, MHD stability and disruptions in the SPARC tokamak, Journal of Plasma Physics 86 (5), 865860507 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377820001129.
  9. T. Fülöp, P. Helander, O. Vallhagen, O. Embreus, L. Hesslow, P. Svensson, A. J. Creely, N. T. Howard, and P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, Effect of plasma elongation on current dynamics during tokamak disruptions, Journal of Plasma Physics 86, 474860101 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002237782000001X.
  10. P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, A. E. White, N. T. Howard, B. A. Grierson, X. Yuan, G. M. Staebler, J. E. Rice, C. Angioni, N. M. Cao, A. J. Creely, E. Fable, M. J. Greenwald, A. E. Hubbard, J. W. Hughes, J. H. Irby, and F. Sciortino, Perturbative transport modeling of cold-pulse dynamics in Alcator C-Mod Ohmic plasmas, Nuclear Fusion 59, 066017 (2019).  https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ab1575.
  11. R. A. Tinguely, A. Rosenthal, R. Simpson, S. B. Ballinger, A. J. Creely, S. Frank, A. Q. Kuang, B. L. Linehan, W .McCarthy, L. M. Milanese, K. J. Montes, T. Mouratidis, J. F. Picard, P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, A. J. Sandberg, F. Sciortino, E. A. Tolman, M. Zhou, B. N. Sorbom, Z. S. Hartwig, and A. E. White, Neutron diagnostics for the physics of a high-field, compact, Q ≥ 1 tokamak, Fusion Engineering and Design 143, 212 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2019.03.148.
  12. A. Q. Kuang, N.M. Cao, A.J. Creely, C.A. Dennett, J. Hecla, B. LaBombard, R.A. Tinguely, E.A. Tolman, H. Hoffman, M. Major, J. Ruiz Ruiz, D. Brunner, P. Grover, C. Laughman, B.N. Sorbom, and D.G. Whyte, Conceptual design study for heat exhaust management in the ARC fusion pilot plant, Fusion Engineering and Design 137, 221 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2018.09.007.
  13. P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, A. E. White, N. T. Howard, B. A. Grierson, G. M. Staebler, J. E. Rice, X. Yuan, N. M. Cao, A. J. Creely, M. J. Greenwald, A. E. Hubbard, J. W. Hughes, J. H. Irby, and F. Sciortino, Explaining Cold-Pulse Dynamics in Tokamak Plasmas Using Local Turbulent Transport Models, Physical Review Letters 120, 075001 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.075001. 
  14. S. J. Freethy, T. Görler, A. J. Creely, G. D. Conway, S. S. Denk, T. Happel, C. Koenen, P. Hennequin, A. E. White, and ASDEX Upgrade Team, Validation of gyrokinetic simulations with measurements of electron temperature fluctuations and density-temperature phase angles on ASDEX Upgrade, Physics of Plasmas 25, 055903 (2018).  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5018930.
  15. M. Schmidtmayr, J.W. Hughes, F. Ryter, E. Wolfrum, N. Cao, A.J. Creely, N. Howard, A.E. Hubbard, Y. Lin, M.L. Reinke, J.E. Rice, E.A. Tolman, S. Wukitch, Y. Ma, ASDEX Upgrade Team, and Alcator C-Mod Team, Investigation of the critical edge ion heat flux for L-H transitions in Alcator C-Mod and its dependence on BT, Nuclear Fusion 58, 056003 (2018).  https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aaaed0.
  16. P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, A. E. White, A. J. Creely, M. J. Greenwald, N. T. Howard, F. Sciortino and J. C. Wright, VITALS: A Surrogate-Based Optimization Framework for the Accelerated Validation of Plasma Transport Codes, Fusion Science and Technology (2018).  https://doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1396166.
  17. N. T. Howard, C. Holland, A. E. White, M. Greenwald, P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, J. Candy, and A. J. Creely, Multi-scale gyrokinetic simulations of an Alcator C-Mod, ELM-y H-mode plasma, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 60, 014034 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/aa9148.
  18. D. R. Mikkelsen, N. T. Howard, A. E. White, and A. J. Creely, Verification of GENE and GYRO with L-mode and I-mode plasmas in Alcator C-Mod, Physics of Plasmas 25, 042505 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5018741.
  19. A. E. Hubbard, S. G. Baek, D. Brunner, A. J. Creely, I. Cziegler, E. Edlund, J. W. Hughes, B. LaBombard, Y. Lin, Z. Liu, E. S. Marmar, M. L. Reinke, J. E. Rice, B. Sorbom, C. Sung, J. Terry, C. Theiler, E. A. Tolman, J.R. Walk, A.E. White, D. Whyte, S.M. Wolfe, S. Wukitch, X.Q. Xu and the Alcator C-Mod Team, Physics and performance of the I-mode regime over an expanded operating space on Alcator C-Mod, Nuclear Fusion 57, 126039 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aa8570.
  20. P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, J.E. Rice, N.M. Cao, A.J. Creely, N.T. Howard, A.E. Hubbard, J.H. Irby, and A.E. White, On the correlation between ‘non-local’ effects and intrinsic rotation reversalsin Alcator C-Mod, Nuclear Fusion 57, 074001 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aa6e89.
  21. N. T. Howard, C. Holland, A. E. White, M. Greenwald, J. Candy, and A. J. Creely, Multi-scale gyrokinetic simulations: Comparison with experiment and implications for predicting turbulence and transport, Physics of Plasmas 23, 056109 (2016).  http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4946028.
  22. S. J. Freethy, G. D. Conway, I. Classen, A. J. Creely, T. Happel, A. Köhn, B. Vanovac, and A. E. White, Measurement of turbulent electron temperature fluctuations on the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak using correlated electron cyclotron emission, Review of Scientific Instruments 87, 11E102 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4958908.
  23. A. E. White, N. T. Howard, A. J. Creely, M. A. Chilenski, M. Greenwald, A. E. Hubbard, J. W. Hughes, E. Marmar, J. E. Rice, J. M. Sierchio, C. Sung, J. R. Walk, D. G. Whyte, D. R. Mikkelsen, E. M. Edlund, C. Kung, C. Holland, J. Candy, C. C. Petty, M. L. Reinke, and C. Theiler, Nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations of the I-mode high confinement regime and comparisons with experiment, Physics of Plasmas 22, 056109 (2015).  http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4921150.