David Newman
Biographical Sketch:
Present Research Interests:
- Dynamics and Control of SOC Systems (Sandpiles, Power Transmission, Communications, Traffic, Plasmas)
- Basic Plasma and Fluid Turbulence
- The Interaction Between Sheared Flows and Turbulence
- Modeling Transitions in Plasma Transport
- Dynamics of Atomistic Flows in Carbon Nanotubes
- Development of Higher Order Characteristic Measures of Dynamical Systems
Selected Publications:
- Recurrence quantification analysis of simulations of near-marginal dissipative-trapped-electron-mode turbulence J. A. Mier, R. Sanchez, L. Garcia, J. Varela, and D. E. Newman, Phys. Plasmas 18, 062306 (2011).
- Exploring complex systems aspects of blackout risk and mitigation, D.E. Newman, B.A. Carreras, V.E. Lynch, I. Dobson, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Reliability in 2011.
- Parallelization in time of numerical simulations of fully-developed plasma turbulence using the parareal algorithm, D. Samaddar, D.E. Newman, R. Sanchez, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 229, Issue 18, 1 September 2010, Pages 6558-6573.
- A simple model for the reliability of an infrastructure system controlled by agents, B.A. Carreras, D.E. Newman, I. Dobson, M. Zeidenberg Forty-third Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, January 2010.
- The impact of risk-averse operation on the likelihood of extreme events in a simple model of infrastructure. B. A. Carreras, D E Newman, I Dobson, M Zeidenberg, Chaos, Vol 19, 4, 043107 Dec 2009.
- On the nature of radial transport across sheared zonal flows in electrostatic ion-temperature-gradient gyrokinetic tokamak plasma turbulence R. Sánchez, D. E. Newman, J.-N. Leboeuf, B. A. Carreras, and V. K. Decyk, Phys. Plasmas 16 055905 (2009).
- A simple model for the reliability of an infrastructure system controlled by agents, B.A. Carreras, D.E. Newman, I. Dobson, M. Zeidenberg Forty-second Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, January 2009.
- Validation in Fusion Research: Towards Guidelines and Best Practices, P. W. Terry, M. Greenwald, J.-N. Leboeuf, G. R. McKee, D. R. Mikkelsen, W. M. Nevins, D. E. Newman, and D. P. Stotler, Phys. Plasmas 15, 062503 (2008).
- Characterization of non-diffusive transport in plasma turbulence via a novel Lagrangian method, J.A. Mier, R. Sánchez, L. Garcia, B. A. Carreras, B.A. and D. E. Newman, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 101, no. 16, 165001, Oct. 2008.
- On the nature of transport in near-critical dissipative trapped electron turbulence: effect of a subdominant diffusive channel, Mier, J.A., Sánchez, R., Garcia, L., Newman, D.E. and Carreras, B.A., Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 15, 112301, Nov 2008.
- On the nature of transport across sheared zonal flows in electrostatic, toroidal gyrokinetic plasma turbulence, R. Sánchez, D. E. Newman, J. N. Leboeuf, V. K. Decyk and B. A. Carreras, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 101, no. 20, 205002, Nov 2008.
- Evaluating the effect of upgrade, control and development strategies on robustness and failure risk of the Power Transmission Grid, Newman, D.E., B.A. Carreras, V.E. Lynch, and I. Dobson, 41th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, Jan. 2008.
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