David Dickinson

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• 2025

  A quasi-linear model of electromagnetic turbulent transport and its application to flux-driven transport predictions for STEP

  Giacomin, M., Dickinson, D., Dorland, W., Mandell, N., Bokshi, A., Casson, F. J., Dudding, H., Kennedy, D., Patel, B. & Roach, C. M., 1 Feb 2025, In: Journal of Plasma Physics. 91, 1, 33 p., E16.

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• Doubling fusion power with volumetric optimization in magnetic confinement fusion devices

  Parisi, J. F., Berkery, J. W., Sladkomedova, A., Guizzo, S., Hardman, M. R., Ball, J. R., Nelson, A. O., Kaye, S. M., Anastopoulos Tzanis, M., McNamara, S. A. M., Dominski, J., Janhunen, S., Romanelli, M., Dickinson, D., Diallo, A., Dnestrovskii, A., Guttenfelder, W., Hansen, C., Myatra, O. & Wilson, H. R., 7 Feb 2025, In: Physical Review Research. 7, 9 p., 013139.

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• The impact of E × B shear on microtearing based transport in spherical tokamaks

  Patel, B., Hardman, M. R., Kennedy, D., Giacomin, M., Dickinson, D. & Roach, C. M., 31 Jan 2025, In: Nuclear Fusion. 65, 18 p., 026063.

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• 2024

  On electromagnetic turbulence and transport in STEP

  Giacomin, M., Kennedy, D., Casson, F. J., C. J., A., Dickinson, D., Patel, B. & Roach, C. M., 28 Mar 2024, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 66, 21 p., 055010.

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• On the importance of parallel magnetic-field fluctuations for electromagnetic instabilities in STEP

  Kennedy, D., Roach, C., Giacomin, M., Ivanov, P., Adkins, T., Sheffield-Heit, F., Görler, T., Bokshi, A., Dickinson, D., Dudding, H. & Patel, B., 3 Jul 2024, In: Nuclear Fusion. 64, 18 p., 086049.

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• Pyrokinetics - A Python library to standardise gyrokinetic analysis

  Patel, B., Hill, P. A., Pattinson, L. T., Giacomin, M., Bokshi, A., Kennedy, D., Dudding, H., Parisi, J. F., Neiser, T., Jayalekshmi, A., Dickinson, D. & Ruiz Ruiz, J., 6 Mar 2024, In: Journal of open source software. 9, 95, 2 p., 5866.

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• 2023

  Drift kinetic theory of neoclassical tearing modes in tokamak plasmas: polarisation current and its effect on magnetic island threshold physics

  Dudkovskaia, A., Connor, J. W., Dickinson, D., Hill, P. A., Imada, K., Leigh, S. & Wilson, H. R., 25 Oct 2023, In: Nuclear Fusion. 63, 25 p., 126040.

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• Electromagnetic gyrokinetic instabilities in STEP

  Kennedy, D., Giacomin, M., Casson, F. J., Dickinson, D., Hornsby, W. A., Patel, B. & Roach, C. M., 14 Nov 2023, In: Nuclear Fusion. 27 p., 126061.

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• Microstability of β ~ 1 tokamak equilibria

  Gaur, R., Abel, I., Dickinson, D. & Dorland, W., 1 Mar 2023, In: Journal of Plasma Physics. 89, 42 p., 905890112.

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• New linear stability parameter to describe low-β electromagnetic microinstabilities driven by passing electrons in axisymmetric toroidal geometry

  Hardman, M. R., Parra, F. I., Patel, B., Roach, C. M., Ruiz Ruiz, J., Barnes, M., Dickinson, D., Dorland, W., Parisi, J. F. & St-Onge, D., 6 Mar 2023, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 65, 17 p., 045011.

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• Nonlinear microtearing modes in MAST and their stochastic layer formation

  Giacomin, M., Dickinson, D., Kennedy, D., Patel, B. & Roach, C., 8 Aug 2023, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 65, 9, 22 p., 095019.

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• Nonlinear second order electromagnetic gyrokinetic theory for a tokamak plasma

  Dudkovskaia, A., Wilson, H. R., Connor, J., Dickinson, D. & Parra, F., 3 Mar 2023, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 65, 20 p., 045010.

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• Quantifying the role of higher order neoclassical corrections to gyrokinetics in tokamak plasmas

  Dudkovskaia, A., Connor, J. W., Dickinson, D. & Wilson, H. R., 12 Apr 2023, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 65, 19 p., 054006.

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• 2022

  A new quasilinear saturation rule for tokamak turbulence with application to the isotope scaling of transport

  Dudding, H., Casson, F. J., Dickinson, D., Patel, B., Roach, C. M., Belli, E. A. & Staebler, G., 13 Jul 2022, In: Nuclear Fusion. 62, 9, 24 p., 096005.

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• Drift kinetic theory of the NTM magnetic islands in a finite beta general geometry tokamak plasma

  Dudkovskaia, A., Bardoczi, L., Connor, J. W., Dickinson, D., Hill, P. A., Imada, K., Leigh, S., Richner, N., Shi, T. & Wilson, H. R., 14 Dec 2022, In: Nuclear Fusion. 63, 19 p., 016020.

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• Extended electron tails in electrostatic microinstabilities and the nonadiabatic response of passing electrons

  Hardman, M. R., Parra, F. I., Chong, C., Adkins, T., Anastopoulos Tzanis, M., Barnes, M., Dickinson, D., Parisi, J. F. & Wilson, H. R., 21 Mar 2022, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 64, 45 p., 055004.

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• Kinetic ballooning modes as a constraint on plasma triangularity in commercial spherical tokamaks

  Davies, R., Dickinson, D. & Wilson, H., 19 Aug 2022, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 64, 10, 12 p., 105001.

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• Three-Dimensional Inhomogeneity of Electron-Temperature-Gradient Turbulence in the Edge of Tokamak Plasmas

  Parisi, J. F., Parra, F., Roach, C. M., Hardman, M. R., Schekochihin, A., Abel, I. G., Aiba, N., Ball, J., Barnes, M., Chapman-Oplopoiou, B., Dickinson, D., Dorland, W., Giroud, C., Hatch, D. R., Hillesheim, J., Ruiz Ruiz, J., Saarelma, S. & St-Onge, D., 6 Jul 2022, In: Nuclear Fusion. 62, 8, 16 p., 086045.

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• 2021

  Drift kinetic theory of neoclassical tearing modes in a low collisionality tokamak plasma: magnetic island threshold physics

  Dudkovskaia, A., Connor, J. W., Dickinson, D., Hill, P. A., Imada, K., Leigh, S. & Wilson, H. R., 1 Apr 2021, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 63, 30 p., 054001.

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• Linear gyrokinetic stability of a high β non-inductive spherical tokamak

  Patel, B., Dickinson, D., Roach, C. M. & Wilson, H. R., 6 Dec 2021, In: Nuclear Fusion. 62, 27 p., 016009.

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• Parallel tridiagonal matrix inversion with a hybrid multigrid–Thomas algorithm method

  Parker, J., Hill, P. A., Dickinson, D. & Dudson, B. D., 5 Jul 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 399, p. 1-15 15 p.

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• Towards understanding reactor relevant tokamak pedestals

  Ham, C., Bokshi, A., Brunetti, D., Bustos Ramírez, G., Chapman, B., Connor, J. W., Dickinson, D., Field, A. R., Frassinetti, L., Gillgren, A., Graves, J. P., Kiviniemi, T. P., Leerink, S., McMillan, B., Newton, S., Pamela, S., Roach, C. M., Saarelma, S., Simpson, J. & Smith, S. F. & 4 others, Solano, E. R., Strand, P., Virtanen, A. J. & JET contributors, 2 Aug 2021, In: Nuclear Fusion. 61, 17 p., 096013.

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• 2020

  The physics of a small-scale tearing mode in collisionless slab plasmas

  Geng, C., Dickinson, D. & Wilson, H. R., 3 Jul 2020, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 62, 8, 12 p., 085009.

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• 2017

  Generalised ballooning theory of two-dimensional tokamak modes

  Abdoul, P. A., Dickinson, D., Roach, C. M. & Wilson, H. R., 15 Dec 2017, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 60, 2, p. 1-13 13 p., 025011.

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• Non-Local Effects on Pedestal Kinetic Ballooning Mode Stability

  MAST team & The JET Contributors, 11 Apr 2017, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 59, 6, 8 p., 064001.

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• Overview of recent physics results from MAST

  Kirk, A., Dickinson, D., Dudson, B. D., Easy, L., Gibson, K., Imada, K., Leddy, J., Lipschultz, B., Reinke, M. L., Thomas, D. A., Vann, R. G. L., Walkden, N. R. & Wilson, H. R., 20 Jun 2017, In: Nuclear Fusion. 57, 10, p. 1-17 17 p., 102007 .

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• Pedestal evolution physics in low triangularity JET tokamak discharges with ITER-like wall

  JET contributors, 10 Nov 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nuclear Fusion. 58, 1, 17 p., 016021.

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• 2016

  The response of toroidal drift modes to profile evolution: A model for small-ELMs in tokamak plasmas?

  Bokshi, A., Dickinson, D., Roach, C. M. & Wilson, H. R., 3 Jun 2016, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 58, 7, p. 1-13 13 p., 075011.

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• 2015

  Overview of MAST results

  Chapman, I. T., Adamek, J., Akers, R. J., Allan, S., Appel, L., Asunta, O., Barnes, M., Ayed, N. B., Bigelow, T., Boeglin, W., Bradley, J., Brünner, J., Cahyna, P., Carr, M., Caughman, J., Cecconello, M., Challis, C., Chapman, S., Chorley, J. & Colyer, G. & 124 others, Conway, N., Cooper, W. A., Cox, M., Crocker, N., Crowley, B., Cunningham, G., Danilov, A., Darrow, D., Dendy, R., Diallo, A., Dickinson, D., Diem, S., Dorland, W., Dudson, B., Dunai, D., Easy, L., Elmore, S., Field, A., Fishpool, G., Fox, M., Fredrickson, E., Freethy, S., Garzotti, L., Ghim, Y. C., Gibson, K., Graves, J., Gurl, C., Guttenfelder, W., Ham, C., Harrison, J., Harting, D., Havlickova, E., Hawke, J., Hawkes, N., Hender, T., Henderson, S., Highcock, E., Hillesheim, J., Hnat, B., Holgate, J., Horacek, J., Howard, J., Huang, B., Imada, K., Jones, O., Kaye, S., Keeling, D., Kirk, A., Klimek, I., Kocan, M., Leggate, H., Lilley, M., Lipschultz, B., Lisgo, S., Liu, Y. Q., Lloyd, B., Lomanowski, B., Lupelli, I., Maddison, G., Mailloux, J., Martin, R., McArdle, G., McClements, K., McMillan, B., Meakins, A., Meyer, H., Michael, C., Militello, F., Milnes, J., Morris, A. W., Motojima, G., Muir, D., Nardon, E., Naulin, V., Naylor, G., Nielsen, A., O'Brien, M., O'Gorman, T., Ono, Y., Oliver, H., Pamela, S., Pangione, L., Parra, F., Patel, A., Peebles, W., Peng, M., Perez, R., Pinches, S., Piron, L., Podesta, M., Price, M., Reinke, M., Ren, Y., Roach, C., Robinson, J., Romanelli, M., Rozhansky, V., Saarelma, S., Sangaroon, S., Saveliev, A., Scannell, R., Schekochihin, A., Sharapov, S., Sharples, R., Shevchenko, V., Silburn, S., Simpson, J., Storrs, J., Takase, Y., Tanabe, H., Tanaka, H., Taylor, D., Taylor, G., Thomas, D., Thomas-Davies, N., Thornton, A., Turnyanskiy, M., Valovic, M., Vann, R., Walkden, N., Wilson, H., Wyk, L. V., Yamada, T. & Zoletnik, S., 19 Jun 2015, In: Nuclear Fusion. 55, 10, p. 1-20 20 p., 104008.

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• Using a local gyrokinetic code to study global ion temperature gradient modes in tokamaks

  Abdoul, P. A., Dickinson, D., Roach, C. M. & Wilson, H. R., Jun 2015, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 57, 6, 10 p., 065004.

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• 2014

  Structure of micro-instabilities in tokamak plasmas: Stiff transport or plasma eruptions?

  Dickinson, D., Roach, C. M., Skipp, J. M. & Wilson, H. R., 2014, In: Physics of Plasmas. 21, 010702.

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• 2013

  MHD and gyro-kinetic stability of JET pedestals

  EFDA-Jet Contributors, 12 Nov 2013, In: Nuclear Fusion.

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• Microtearing modes at the top of the pedestal

  Dickinson, D., Roach, C. M., Saarelma, S., Scannell, R., Kirk, A. & Wilson, H. R., 1 Jul 2013, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 55, 7, 074006.

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• Overview of physics results from MAST towards ITER/DEMO and the MAST Upgrade

  Meyer, H., Abel, I. G., Akers, R. J., Allan, A., Allan, S. Y., Appel, L. C., Asunta, O., Barnes, M., Barratt, N. C., Ben Ayed, N., Bradley, J. W., Canik, J., Cahyna, P., Cecconello, M., Challis, C. D., Chapman, I. T., Ciric, D., Colyer, G., Conway, N. J. & Cox, M. & 109 others, Crowley, B. J., Cowley, S. C., Cunningham, G., Danilov, A., Darke, A., De Bock, M. F. M., De Temmerman, G., Dendy, R. O., Denner, P., Dickinson, D., Dnestrovsky, A. Y., Dnestrovsky, Y., Driscoll, M. D., Dudson, B., Dunai, D., Dunstan, M., Dura, P., Elmore, S., Field, A. R., Fishpool, G., Freethy, S., Fundamenski, W., Garzotti, L., Ghim, Y. C., Gibson, K. J., Gryaznevich, M. P., Harrison, J., Havlíčková, E., Hawkes, N. C., Heidbrink, W. W., Hender, T. C., Highcock, E., Higgins, D., Hill, P., Hnat, B., Hole, M. J., Horáček, J., Howell, D. F., Imada, K., Jones, O., Kaveeva, E., Keeling, D., Kirk, A., Kočan, M., Lake, R. J., Lehnen, M., Leggate, H. J., Liang, Y., Lilley, M. K., Lisgo, S. W., Liu, Y. Q., Lloyd, B., Maddison, G. P., Mailloux, J., Martin, R., McArdle, G. J., McClements, K. G., McMillan, B., Michael, C., Militello, F., Molchanov, P., Mordijck, S., Morgan, T., Morris, A. W., Muir, D. G., Nardon, E., Naulin, V., Naylor, G., Nielsen, A. H., O'Brien, M. R., O'Gorman, T., Pamela, S., Parra, F. I., Patel, A., Pinches, S. D., Price, M. N., Roach, C. M., Robinson, J. R., Romanelli, M., Rozhansky, V., Saarelma, S., Sangaroon, S., Saveliev, A., Scannell, R., Seidl, J., Sharapov, S. E., Schekochihin, A. A., Shevchenko, V., Shibaev, S., Stork, D., Storrs, J., Sykes, A., Tallents, G. J., Tamain, P., Taylor, D., Temple, D., Thomas-Davies, N., Thornton, A., Turnyanskiy, M. R., Valovič, M., Vann, R. G. L., Verwichte, E., Voskoboynikov, P., Voss, G., Warder, S. E. V., Wilson, H. R., Wodniak, I., Zoletnik, S. & Zagôrski, R., 1 Oct 2013, In: Nuclear Fusion. 53, 10, 104008.

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• 2012

  Kinetic Instabilities that Limit beta in the Edge of a Tokamak Plasma: A Picture of an H-Mode Pedestal

  Dickinson, D., Roach, C. M., Saarelma, S., Scannell, R., Kirk, A. & Wilson, H. R., 26 Mar 2012, In: Physical Review Letters. 108, 13, p. 1-5 5 p., 135002.

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• 2011

  Towards the construction of a model to describe the inter-ELM evolution of the pedestal on MAST

  Dickinson, D., Saarelma, S., Scannell, R., Kirk, A., Roach, C. M. & Wilson, H. R., Nov 2011, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 53, 11, p. 1-14 14 p., 115010.

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• 2009

  Gyrokinetic simulations of spherical tokamaks

  Roach, C. M., Abel, I. G., Akers, R. J., Arter, W., Barnes, M., Camenen, Y., Casson, F. J., Colyer, G., Connor, J. W., Cowley, S. C., Dickinson, D., Dorland, W., Field, A. R., Guttenfelder, W., Hammett, G. W., Hastie, R. J., Highcock, E., Loureiro, N. F., Peeters, A. G. & Reshko, M. & 4 others, Saarelma, S., Schekochihin, A. A., Valovic, M. & Wilson, H. R., Dec 2009, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 51, 12, p. - 11 p., 124020.

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