Richard Fitzpatrick's papers:

Resistive wall modes and vertical instabilities in tokamaks:

• R. Fitzpatrick,
  A simple ideal-MHD model of vertical disruption events in tokamak plasmas,
  preprint (2008).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick,
  A sharp boundary model for the vertical and kink stability of large aspect-ratio vertically elongated tokamak plasmas,
  preprint (2008).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick,
  Interaction of scrape-off layer currents with magnetohydrodynamical instabilities in tokamak plasmas,
  Phys. Plasmas 14, 062505 (2007).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick,
  Effect of an error-field on the stability of the resistive wall mode,
  Phys. Plasmas 14, 022505 (2007).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick, J. Bialek,
  Stability of the resistive wall mode in HBT-EP plasmas,
  Phys. Plasmas 13, 072512 (2006).
  [PDF]
• M. Shilov, C. Cates, R. James, A. Klein, O. Katsuro-Hopkins, Y. Liu, M.E. Mauel, D.A. Mauer, G.A. Navratil, T.S. Pedersen, N. Stillis, R. Fitzpatrick, S.F. Paul,
  Dynamical plasma response of resistive wall modes to changing external magnetic perturbations,
  Phys. Plasmas 11, 2573 (2004).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick,
  A simple model of the resistive wall mode in tokamaks,
  Phys. Plasmas 9, 3459 (2002).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick, T.H. Jensen,
  Stabilization of the resistive wall mode using a fake rotating shell,
  Phys. Plasmas 3, 2641 (1996).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick, A.Y. Aydemir,
  Stabilization of the resistive shell mode in tokamaks,
  Nucl. Fusion 36, 11 (1996).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick,
  Effect of a nonuniform resistive wall on the stability of tokamak plasmas,
  Phys. Plasmas 1, 2931 (1994).
  [PDF]

Tearing mode island dynamics in tokamaks:

• R. Fitzpatrick, F.L. Waelbroeck,
  Drift-tearing magnetic islands in tokamak plasmas,
  Phys. Plasmas 15, 012502 (2008).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick, F.L. Waelbroeck,
  Hypersonic drift-tearing magnetic islands in tokamak plasmas,
  Phys. Plasmas 14, 122502 (2007).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick, F. Militello, F.L. Waelbroeck,
  The influence of the ion polarization current on magnetic island stability in a tokamak plasma,
  Phys. Plasmas 13, 122507 (2006).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick, F.L. Waelbroeck
  Effect of drift-acoustic waves on magnetic island stability in slab geometry,
  Phys. Plasmas 12, 122511 (2005).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick, P.G. Watson, F.L. Waelbroeck
  Two-fluid magnetic island dynamics in slab geometry: Determination of the island phase velocity,
  Phys. Plasmas 12, 082510 (2005).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick, F.L. Waelbroeck,
  Two-fluid magnetic island dynamics in slab geometry: II - Interaction with resistive walls and static external magnetic perturbations,
  Phys. Plasmas 12, 022308 (2005).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick, F.L. Waelbroeck,
  Two-fluid magnetic island dynamics in slab geometry: I - Isolated islands,
  Phys. Plasmas 12, 022307 (2005).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick, E. Rossi, E.P. Yu,
  Improved evolution equations for magnetic island chains in toroidal pinch plasmas subject to externally applied magnetic perturbations,
  Phys. Plasmas 8, 4489 (2001).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick, E. Rossi,
  Control of tearing modes in toroidal fusion experiments using designer error-fields,
  Phys. Plasmas 8, 2760 (2001).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick, F.L. Waelbroeck,
  Nonlinear dynamics of feedback modulated magnetic islands in toroidal plasmas,
  Phys. Plasmas 7, 4983 (2000).
  [PDF]
• F.L. Waelbroeck, R. Fitzpatrick,
  Rotation and locking of magnetic islands,
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1703 (1997).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick,
  Helical temperature perturbations associated with tearing modes in tokamak plasmas,
  Phys. Plasmas 2, 825 (1995).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick,
  Stability of coupled tearing and twisting modes in tokamaks,
  Phys. Plasmas 1, 3308 (1994).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick, R.J. Hastie, T.J. Martin, C.M. Roach,
  Stability of coupled tearing modes in tokamaks,
  Nucl. Fusion 33, 1533 (1993).
  [PDF]

Error-field penetration in tokamaks:

• A. Cole, R. Fitzpatrick,
  Drift-MHD model of error-field penetration in tokamak plasmas,
  Phys. Plasmas 13, 032503 (2006).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick,
  Plasma parameter scaling of the error-field penetration threshold in tokamaks,
  Phys. Plasmas 10, 1782 (2003).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick,
  Bifurcated states of a rotating tokamak plasma in the presence of a static error-field,
  Phys. Plasmas 5, 3325 (1998).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick, T.C. Hender,
  Effect of a static magnetic perturbation on resistive mode stability in tokamaks,
  Phys. Plasmas 1, 3337 (1994).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick,
  The interaction of tearing modes with external structures in cylindrical geometry,
  Nucl. Fusion 33, 1049 (1993).
  [PDF]

Magnetic reconnection:

• R. Fitzpatrick,
  Scaling of the peak magnetic reconnection rate in the inviscid Taylor problem,
  Phys. Plasmas 15, 024503 (2008).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick, F. Porcelli,
  Collisionless magnetic reconnection with arbitrary guide-field,
  Phys. Plasmas 11, 4713 (2004).
  [PDF] (Erratum: [PDF])
• R. Fitzpatrick,
  Scaling of forced magnetic reconnection in the Hall-magnetohydrodynamical Taylor problem with arbitrary guide-field,
  Phys. Plasmas 11, 3961 (2004).
  [PDF]
• A. Cole, R. Fitzpatrick,
  Forced magnetic reconnection in the inviscid Taylor problem,
  Phys. Plasmas 11, 3525 (2004).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick,
  Scaling of forced magnetic reconnection in the Hall-magnetohydrodynamical Taylor problem,
  Phys. Plasmas 11, 937 (2004).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick, A. Bhattacharjee, Z.W. Ma, T. Linde,
  Wave driven magnetic reconnection in the Taylor problem,
  Phys. Plasmas 10, 4284 (2003).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick,
  A numerical study of forced magnetic reconnection in the viscous Taylor problem,
  Phys. Plasmas 10, 2304 (2003).
  [PDF]

Mode locking in reversed field pinches:

• B.E. Chapman, R. Fitzpatrick, D. Craig, P. Martin, G. Spizza,
  Observation of tearing mode deceleration and locking due to eddy currents induced in a conducting shell,
  Phys. Plasmas 11, 2156 (2004).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick, P. Zanca,
  Phase-locking of tearing modes in the reversed field experiment,
  Phys. Plasmas 9, 2707 (2002).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick, E.P. Yu,
  Nonlinear dynamo mode dynamics in reversed field pinches,
  Phys. Plasmas 7, 3610 (2000).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick, S.C. Guo, D.J. DenHartog, C.C. Hegna,
  Effect of a resistive vacuum vessel on dynamo mode rotation in reversed field pinches,
  Phys. Plasmas 6, 3878 (1999).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick, E.P. Yu,
  Feedback stabilization of the resistive shell mode in a reversed field pinch,
  Phys. Plasmas 6, 3536 (1999).
  [PDF]
• R. Fitzpatrick,
  Formaticn and locking of the slinky mode in reversed field pinches,
  Phys. Plasmas 6, 1168 (1999).
  [PDF]

Lecture notes:

• Error-field driven magnetic reconnection in tokamaks,
  (1995).
  [PDF]
• Effect of resistive walls on ideal-MHD instabilities in tokamaks,
  (1995).
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