Seung-Hoe Ku

Research Assistant Professor
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University

Contact Information : Warren Weaver Hall, Office 1005A
251 Mercer St., New York, NY 10012
E-mail: sku @ cims . nyu. edu
Phone: (212) 998-3255

Research Interest

Large Scale Numerical Simulation

Publications

1. S. Ku, S. Son, S.J. Moon, Photonic band gap and X-ray optics in warm dense matter, Phys. Plasmas, to be published, (2010)
2. S. Son, S. Ku, Plasmon band gap generated by intense ion acoustic waves, Phys. Plasmas, 17, 024501, (2010)
3. S. Son, S. Ku, Suppression of Landau damping via electron band gap, Phys. Plasmas, 17, 010703, (2010)
4. S. Ku, C.S. Chang, P.H. Diamond, Full-f gyrokinetic particle simulation of ITG turbulence with a strong central heating in realistic tokamak geometry, Nuclear Fusion, 49, 115021 (2009)
5. H.R. Strauss, L. Sugiyama, G.Y. Park, C.S. Chang, S. Ku, I. Joseph, Extended MHD simulation of resonant magnetic perturbations, Nuclear Fusion, 49, 055025, (2009)
6. C.S. Chang, S. Ku, P.H. Diamond, M. Adams, et. al, Whole-volume integrated gyrokinetic simulation of plasma turbulence in realistic diverted-tokamak geometry, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 180, 012057, (2009)
7. D.A. Gates, J. Ahn, J. Allain, et. al, Overview of results from the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX), Nuclear Fusion, 49, 104016, (2009)
8. C.S. Chang, S. Ku, P.H. Diamond, et al. Toward a first princeles integrated simulation of tokamak edge plasmas, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 125, 012042, (2008)
9. C.S. Chang, S. Ku, P.H. Diamond, Z. Lin, et al, Compressed ITG turbulence in diverted tokamak edge, Physics of Plasma, 16, 056108, (2009)
10. J. Cummings, A. Pankin, N. Podhorszki, et. al, Plasma Edge Kinetic-MHD Modeling in Tokamaks Using Kepler Workflow for Code Coupling, Data Management and Visualization, Comm. in Computational Physics, 4, 675 (2008)
11. C.S. Chang, S. Klasky, J. Cummings, R. Samtaney, et al., Toward a first-principles integrated simulation of tokamak edge plasmas, J. of Physics: Conference Series, 125, 012042, (2008)
12. Y. Chen, S. E. Parker, G. Rewoldt, S. Ku, G.Y. Park, C.S. Chang, Coarse-graining the electron distribution in gyrokinetic simulations, Phys. Plasmas, 15, 055905 (2008)
13. C.S. Chang, S. Ku, Spontaneous rotation sources in a quiescent tokamak edge plasma, Phys. Plasmas, 15, 062510 (2008)
14. C.S. Chang, S. Ku, Particle simulation of neoclassical transport in the plasma edge, Contrib. Plasma Physics, 46, 496 (2006)
15. S. Ku, C.S. Chang, M. Adams, et al. Gyrokinetic particle simulation of neoclassical transport in the pedestal/scrape-off region of a tokamak plasma, SCIDAC 2006:Scientific discovery through advanced computing 46, 87 (2006)
16. H. Baek, S. Ku, C.S. Chang, Neoclassical polarization drift of collisionless single ions in a sheared radial electric field in a tokamak magnetic geometry, Phys. Plasmas, 13, 012503 (2006)
17. S.H. Hahn, S. Ku, C.S. Chang, Wall intersection of ion orbits induced by fast transport of pedestal plasma over an electrostatic potential hill in a tokamak plasma edge, Phys. Plasmas, 12, 102501 (2005)
18. Seung-Hoe Ku, Hoyul Baek, and C. S. Chang, Property of an X-point generated velocity-space hole in a diverted tokamak plasma edge, Phys. Plasmas, 11, 5626 (2004)
19. R. Maingi, C. S. Chang, Seung-Hoe Ku, et. al., Effect of gas fuelling location on H-mode access in NSTX, Plasma Phys. Contr. Fusion, 46, A305 (2004)
20. C. S. Chang, Seung-Hoe Ku, and H. Weitzner, Numerical study of neoclassical plasma pedestal in a tokamak geometry, Phys. Plasmas, 11, 2649 (2004)
21. C. S. Chang and Seung-Hoe Ku, and H. Weitzner, X-transport: A baseline nonambipolar transport in a diverted tokamak plasma edge, Phys. Plasmas, 9, 3884 (2002)
22. H.G. Jhang and Seung-Hoe Ku, An optimum feedback coil position for active stabilization of resistive wall modes, Phys. Plasmas, 8, 3107 (2001)
23. S. S. Kim, S. Hamaguchi, N. S. Yoon, C. S. Chang, Y. D. Lee, Seung-Hoe Ku, Numerical investigation on plasma and poly-Si etching uniformity control over a large area in a resonant inductively coupled plasma source, Phys. Plasmas, 8, 1384 (2001)
24. Y. D. Lee, S. S. Kim, Seung-Hoe Ku, and C. S. Chang, Strong variation of average ion energy in oscillation frequency of sheath potential, Phys. Plasmas, 7, 766 (2000)