Emeritus Professor Boyd Blackwell

Emeritus Professor
Research School of Physics

Boyd Blackwell is a Senior Fellow in the Plasma Research Laboratory, Research School of Physics and Engineering at the ANU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. His research interests include:

  • Configurational effects on equilibrium and stability of toroidal plasma
  • High performance computation and visualisation
  • Application of database, data mining and machine learning techniques to analysis of plasma and fluctuation data

Research interests

Plasma physics and applications to fusion power and materials interactions

Advanced geometries for the magentic confinement of plasma

MHD equilibrium and stability, plasma wave propagation and heating, plasma diagnostics

Numerical simulation and large scale computation, visualisation of complex phenomena

Signal/data processing and analysis

Power electronics and applications to energy efficiency and sustainability.

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