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Toby Adkins

PDRA

Research theme

  • Plasma physics

Sub department

  • Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics

Research groups

  • Theoretical astrophysics and plasma physics at RPC
toby.adkins@physics.ox.ac.uk
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, room 60.30
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I am a fourth year DPhil Student in the Fusion Plasma Theory group, working jointly with Prof. Schekochihin (Oxford) and Dr Colin Roach (Culham). My research currently focuses on finding analytical estimates for the turbulent heat flux arising from electromagnetic, electron temperature gradient driven turbulence in a fusion (tokamak) plasma. I am also interested in the phase-space dynamics of kinetically modeled plasmas, and have thus far investigated various models of turbulence in electrostatic, cold ion systems.

I completed my undergraduate MMathPhys at Oxford University, taking courses in Quantum Field Theory, Statistical Mechanics, General Relativity, Magnetohydrodynamics, and Kinetic Theory.  Since graduating, I have kept myself involved in undergraduate teaching, including general Teaching Assistant work, teaching portions of the Kinetic Theory course, as well as holding tutorials and classes for third year students taking Fluid Dynamics and General Relativity.

Research interests

Theoretical plasma physics
Fluid turbulence
Plasma kinetics
Tokamak transport
Electromagnetic plasma phenomena

Selected publications

A solvable model of Vlasov-kinetic plasma turbulence in Fourier-Hermite phase space

Journal of Plasma Physics Cambridge University Press 84:1 (2018) 905840107
Toby Adkins, Alexander Schekochihin
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