Welcome
This is the group webpage for plasma edge physics and plasmas surface interactions in presence of three-dimensional (3D) plasma boundaries. This is a situation relevant to tokamak devices with resonant magnetic field perturbations applied and stellarators as inherently 3D systems.
We tackle the cutting edge topics in the field on large-scale facilities and address important basic plasma science questions such as generation of high-density plasmas with helicon waves. The later topic has become relevant recently for next-generation wakefield accelerators and we are a member of the AWAKE project at CERN.
We post the most recent developments in the group on this site – including recent scientific achievements, lab updates and publication updates.
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Meet Professor Oliver Schmitz
Professor Schmitz is the Thomas and Suzanne Werner Professor in Engineering Physics and the Associate Dean for Research and the Director of the Grainger Institute of Engineering in the College of Engineering at UW Madison. Dr. Schmitz and his research group focus on the research of Plasma edge physics for fusion energy applications, development of state of the art numerical methods, with a particular focus on 3-D plasma edge transport and plasma-wall interaction. His particular interest is in the field of active spectroscopic methods to measure plasma parameters with non-invasive methods. As an associate member of the AWAKE project at CERN, he and his group is working on the development of reliable, and remotely operable plasma diagnostics based on spectroscopy to diagnose the high level of axial density homogeneity needed in this new accelerator concept. Dr. Schmitz has been active within physics professional societies, where he was the U.S. representative of International Tokamak Physics Activity (ITPA) in 2017, and the Co-chair of National Stellarator Coordinating Committee (NSCC) in 2018. In 2019, he was selected the Secretary Treasurer of American Physics Society in the Division of Plasma Physics.
Publications
Multiphysics Modeling of Impurity Transport for FNSF Startup Scenario with ERO2.0
Marcos X. Navarro, Tom Rognlien, Marvin Rensink, Juri Romazanov, Andreas Kirschner & Oliver Schmitz
Numerical error analysis of SOLPS-ITER simulations of EAST
Dieter Boeyaert, Stefano Carli, Kristel Ghoos, Wouter Dekeyser, Sven Wiesen, Martine Baelmans.
Jonathan Green, Oliver Schmitz, and Michael Zepp.
E.T. Hinson, O. Schmitz, T. Abrams, A. Briesemeister, I. Bykov, C. Chrystal, C. Collins, T.E. Evans, H. Frerichs, B.A. Grierson, R.A. Moyer, C. Paz-Soldan, D. Thomas, E.A. Unterberg, and M. Wade.
T. Kremeyer, K. Flesch, O. Schmitz, G. Schlisio, U. Wenzel, and W7-X Team.
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University of Wisconsin – Madison
1500 Engineering Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(608)263-1547
oschmitz@wisc.edu
