National Institute for Fusion Science, Department of Helical Plasma Research, Fusion Theory and Simulation Research Division

Past news

22.10.12: A paper by Assoc. Prof. M. Nunami, S. Toda, M. Nakata, and H. Sugama [Phys. Plasmas29, 102505 (2022)] has been chosen as the Editor's Picks.
22.9.28: Three figures in a paper by Associate Professor Motoki Nakata et al. appear in the front cover of Journal of Plasma and Fusion Research Vol. 98, No. 9. ["Gyrokinetic Turbulent Transport Simulations on Steady Burning Condition in D-T-He Plasmas", M. Nakata and M. Honda, Plasma and Fusion Research 17, 1403083 (2022).]
22.8.1: One of figures in a paper by Ph.D student Tomonari Nakayama appears in the front cover of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Vol. 64, No. 7. [ "Nonlinear functional relation covering near- and far-marginal stability in ion temperature gradient driven turbulence", T. Nakayama, M. Nakata, M. Honda, M. Nunami, and S. Matsuoka, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 64, 075007 (2022). ]
21.11.25: Hanzheng Li (graduate student) won the Best Presentation Award at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research for the presentation "Simulation study of energetic-particle driven off-axis fishbone instabilities in tokamak plasmas".
21.10.20: The research team of Associate Prof. Masanori Nunami, Associate Prof. Shinsuke Satake, Assistant Prof. Seikichi Matsuoka, Associate Prof. Motoki Nakata, Mr. Keiji Fujita, and Mr. Tomonari Nakayama won the award for excellence in large-scale computational research in QST, IFERC-CSC.
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21.10.6: Associate Professor Motoki Nakata, Associate Professor Masanori Nunami, and Assistant Professor Seikichi Matsuoka won the JT-60 Joint Research Prize for their “Study of turbulent transport and profile formations in multi-ion-species mixed plasmas” in collaborations with QST.
21.8.31: One of figures in a paper by Specially Appointed Researcher Malik Idouakass appears in the front cover of Physics of Plasmas Vol.
28, No. 8. [ "Precession drift reversal and rapid transport of trapped energetic particles due to an energetic particle driven instability in the Large Helical Device", M. Idouakass, Y. Todo, H. Wang, J. Wang, R.
Seki, and M. Sato, Physics of Plasmas 28, 080701 (2021). ]
21.7.20: Assistant professor Gakushi Kawamura won the 10th NINS Young Scientists Award.
20.6.21: Associate professor Motoki Nakata appeared in the newspaper Asahi Shimbun (morning, June 21, 2020) on the article "Sentanjin".
20.6.3: Associate professor Shinsuke Satake appeared in the newspaper Asahi Shimbun (evening, June 3, 2020) on the article "Gemba-e".
20.4.7: Associate professor Motoki Nakata won "The Young Scientists’ Award in The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)” for his study on “Turbulence suppression mechanisms and improved confinement in magnetically confined high-temperature plasmas”.
19.12.9: Assistant professor Gakushi Kawamura won the Masaji Yoshikawa Memorial Prize for Fusion Energy 2019 for his study "development of 3-D transport model of fusion peripheral plasma based on EMC3-EIRENE code".
19.11.8: Assistant professor Motoki Nakata won the 14th (2020) Young Scientist Award (Division 2 , Plasma) of the Physical Society of Japan for his study of turbulent transport and isotope ion mass effects in magnetically confined plasmas. [References: Motoki NAKATA, Tomo-Hiko WATANABE and Hideo SUGAMA, "Nonlinear entropy transfer via zonal flows in gyrokinetic plasma turbulence", Physics of Plasmas, vol. 19, 022303 (2012). / Motoki NAKATA, Masanori NUNAMI, Hideo SUGAMA and Tomo-Hiko WATANABE, "Isotope effects on trapped-electron-mode driven turbulence and zonal flows in helical and tokamak plasmas", Physical Review Letters, vol. 118, 165002 (2017). / Motoki NAKATA, Mitsuru HONDA, Maiko YOSHIDA, Hajime URANO, Masanori NUNAMI, Shinya MAEYAMA, Tomo-Hiko WATANABE and Hideo SUGAMA, "Validation studies of gyrokinetic ITG and TEM turbulence simulations in a JT-60U tokamak using multiple flux matching", Nuclear Fusion, vol. 56, 086010 (2016). ]
19.8.22: A paper by Assoc. Prof. S. Toda et al., Phys. Plasmas 26, 012510 (2019) is ranked 12th in the top 15 articles that were most downloaded in the past year from Physics of Plasmas (Aug. 16, 2019).