Justin Richard Ball
Scientist
justin.ball@epfl.ch +41 21 693 19 12 http://justin-ball.com
Citizenship : USA
Birth date : 26.04.1989
EPFL SB SPC-TH
PPB 117 (Bâtiment PPB)
Station 13
CH-1015 Lausanne
Web site: Web site: https://spc.epfl.ch/
Justin Ball is a staff scientist studying theoretical plasma physics and nuclear fusion energy. His research primarily focuses on the effect of plasma shaping on turbulence in tokamaks. Additionally, he is an avid fusion science communicator via magazine articles, lectures, podcasts, and a popular science book.
He holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a Master's from MIT, both in Nuclear Engineering. In 2016, he completed a PhD in Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford and received the European Physical Society Plasma Physics PhD Research Award. Previously, he has worked at a nuclear power plant, a nuclear navy research laboratory, and a nuclear weapons laboratory.
He holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a Master's from MIT, both in Nuclear Engineering. In 2016, he completed a PhD in Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford and received the European Physical Society Plasma Physics PhD Research Award. Previously, he has worked at a nuclear power plant, a nuclear navy research laboratory, and a nuclear weapons laboratory.
Publications
Selected publications
| J. Ball, S. Brunner, Ajay C.J Journal of Plasma Physics 86 (2020) 905860207. |
Eliminating turbulent self-interaction through the parallel boundary condition in local gyrokinetic simulations |
| J.Ball Nuclear Fusion 59 (2019) 106043. |
Maximizing specific energy by breeding deuterium |
| J. Ball, S. Brunner, B.F. McMillan Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 61 (2019) 064004. |
The effect of background flow shear on gyrokinetic turbulence in the cold ion limit |
| B.F. McMillan, J. Ball, S. Brunner Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 61 (2019) 055006. |
Simulating background shear flow in local gyrokinetic simulations |
| J. Parisi and J. Ball World Scientific Publishing (2018). |
The Future of Fusion Energy |
| J. Ball, F.I. Parra, M. Landreman, and M. Barnes Nuclear Fusion 58 (2018) 026003. |
Optimized up-down asymmetry to drive fast intrinsic rotation in tokamaks |
| J. Ball and F.I. Parra Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 59 (2017) 024007. |
Turbulent momentum transport due to the beating between different tokamak flux surface shaping effects |
| J. Ball University of Oxford PhD Thesis (2016). |
Up-down asymmetric tokamaks |
| J. Ball, F.I. Parra, J. Lee, and A.J. Cerfon Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 58 (2016) 125015. |
Effect of the Shafranov shift and the gradient of beta on intrinsic momentum transport in up-down asymmetric tokamaks |
| J. Ball and F.I. Parra Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 58 (2016) 055016. |
Scaling of up-down asymmetric turbulent momentum flux with poloidal shaping mode number in tokamaks |
| J. Ball, F.I. Parra, and M. Barnes Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 58 (2016) 045023. |
Poloidal tilting symmetry of high order tokamak flux surface shaping in gyrokinetics |
| B. Sorbom, J. Ball, T.R. Palmer, F.J. Mangiarotti, J.M. Sierchio, P. Bonoli, C. Kasten, D.A. Sutherland, H.S. Barnard, C.B. Haakonsen, J. Goh, C. Sung, and D.G. Whyte Fusion Engineering and Design 100 (2015) 378. |
ARC: A compact, high-field, fusion nuclear science facility and demonstration power plant with demountable magnets |
| J. Ball, F.I. Parra, and M. Barnes Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 57 (2015) 035006. |
Intuition for the radial penetration of flux surface shaping in tokamaks |
| J. Ball, F.I. Parra, M. Barnes, W. Dorland, P. Rodrigues, and N.F. Loureiro Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 56 (2014) 095014. |
Intrinsic momentum transport in up-down asymmetric tokamaks |
| P. Rodrigues, N.F. Loureiro, J. Ball, F.I. Parra Nuclear Fusion 54 (2014) 093003. |
Conditions for up-down asymmetry in the core of tokamak equilibria |
| J. Ball Massachusetts Institute of Technology Master's Thesis (2013). |
Nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations of intrinsic rotation in up-down asymmetric tokamaks |