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Dr Boyd Blackwell

Position Senior Fellow, Director of H-1 National Facility
Department(s) Plasma Research Laboratories
Phone 52482*
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Office Oliphant 2 431
Webpage http://prl.anu.edu.au/Members/bdb112/boyds_mini_CV
Biography

Member IUPAP Plasma Committee (C16)

IEA Stellarator Executive Commiittee

Magnetic Configurations Studies Group

Research Interests

Magnetic configurations

Plasma heating

Plasma databases and datamining

Power electronics

 

Available Student Projects
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters, Vacation Scholars
Supervisor: Dr BD Blackwell
Apply machine learning techniques to assessment of the data quality in plasma fusion experiments, such as the H-1 Heliac.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters, Vacation Scholars
Supervisor: Dr BD Blackwell
Datamining techniques extract information from H-1 essential to understanding instabilities that threaten the viability of fusion as the ultimate clean energy source.
Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters
Fast imaging systems synchronously locked to the frequency of fluctuations in the H-1 plasma will be used to identify the nature of the instabilities and their driving mechanisms.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters, Vacation Scholars
Supervisor: Dr BD Blackwell
Using a small electron beam, trace the magnetic field lines in H-1, to investigate changes in magnetic geometry, transition to chaos.
Recent Publications
Detering Frank, Blackwell Boyd, Hegland Markus, Pretty David, Nagasaki Kazunobu, Yamamoto Satoshi
Reduction of magnetic confinement fusion data for data mining
Proceedings of 14th Biennial Computational Techniques and Applications Conference (2009)
Hole Matthew, O'Connor D John, Blackwell Boyd, Collins George Andrew, Howard John, Cheetham A, James Brian W, Baker J, Bilek Marcela, Dewar Robert, Mather Dennis, Rubinsztein-Dunlop Halina, Soria Julio, Punzmann Horst, Bray Igor, Carman Robert John
Review of the National Innovation System: Australian ITER Forum submission (2008)
Motojima G, Yamamoto Satoshi, Okada Hiroyuki, Sakakibara Satoru, Watanabe K, Nagasaki Kazunobu, Suzuki Y, Mizuuchi T, Kobayashi Shinji, Blackwell Boyd, Nakamura Yuji, Kondo Katsumi, Hanatani Kiyoshi, Arimoto Hajime, Watanabe S, Sano F
Effect of Toroidal Current on Rotational Transform Profile by MHD Activity Measurement in Heliotron J
Plasma and Fusion Research 3 (2008)
Kumar Santhosh, Blackwell Boyd, Harris Jeffrey
Wire tomography in the H-1NF heliac for investigation of fine structure of magnetic islands
Review of Scientific Instruments 78 (2007)

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