Profile

Biography

Career

Departmental roles

University roles

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Lagrangian Mechanics (BSc/MPhys Year 2 core)
• Plasma Physics (BSc/MPhys Year 3 option)
• Final year projects (BSc Year 3 & MPhys Year 4)
  

Postgraduate

• MSc in Fusion Energy: Computational Plasma Techniques (core)
• MSc in Fusion Energy: Projects
  

Other teaching

• Pastoral academic supervision of 20 undergraduate and taught postgraduate students.

Research

Overview

Collaborators

• Herb Berk & Boris Breizman, Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.
• Vladimir Shevchenko and the MAST Team, EURATOM/CCFE Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, U.K.
• Marjan van der Woude, Centre for Immunology and Infection, University of York
  

Supervision

• Mr Tom Williams
  
• Mr Simon Freethy
  
• Mr Spike Lampson

Publications

Full publications list

Book Chapters & Magazine Articles

T. D. Arber, N. J. Sircombe and R. G. L. Vann (2010) Chapter 3: Eulerian Conservative Advection Schemes for Vlasov Solvers in Eulerian Codes for the Numerical Solution of the Kinetic Equations of Plasmas (ISBN: 9781616684136)

B. K. Huang, R. G. L. Vann, G. Naylor, V. F. Shevchenko and S. J. Freethy (2011) Bottling a Star Using ARM's AXI4 in an FPGA XCell 76, 22

Refereed Journal Papers

H. Meyer, S.J. Freethy, K. Gibson, R. G. L. Vann et al., (2011) Nuclear Fusion 51 113011 doi:10.1088/0029-5515/51/11/113011

E. Wagenaars, M. van der Woude and R. G. L. Vann (2011) Treatment of Escherichia coli with an atmospheric-pressure low-temperature plasma jet IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 39, 2346 doi: 10.1109/TPS.2011.2153881

V. F. Shevchenko, M. De Bock, S. J. Freethy, A. N. Saveliev and R. G. L. Vann (2011) Two-Dimensional Studies of Electron Bernstein Wave Emission in MAST Fusion Science and Technology 59, 663

N. Ben Ayed, A. Kirk, B. Dudson, S. Tallents, R. G. L. Vann, H. R. Wilson and the MAST team (2009) Inter-ELM filaments and turbulent transport in the Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 51 035016

H. Meyer, R. G. L. Vann and many others (2009) Overview of physics results from MAST Nuclear Fusion  49 104017

M. P. Gryaznevich, R. G. L. Vann, P. Denner and 11 others (2008) Recent experiments on Alfvén eigenmodes in MAST Nuclear Fusion 48 084003

L. C. Appel, T. Fülöp, M. J. Hole, H. M. Smith, S. D. Pinches, R. G. L. Vann and the MAST Team (2008) Compressional Alfvén Eigenmodes on MAST Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 50 115011

R. G. L. Vann, H. L. Berk and A. R. Soto-Chavez (2007) Strongly driven frequency-sweeping events in plasmas Physical Review Letters 99 025003

B. Lloyd, N. Ben Ayed, B. Dudson, R. G. L. Vann, H. R. Wilson and 81 others (2007) Overview of physics results from MAST Nuclear Fusion 47, S658

I A Gee, R S Dobedoe, R Vann, M H Lewis, G Blugan, and J Kuebler (2005) Enhanced fracture toughness by ceramic laminate design Advances in Applied Ceramics 104, 103

R. G. L. Vann, R. O. Dendy and M. P. Gryaznevich  (2005) Theoretical interpretation of frequency sweeping observations in the Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak Physics of Plasmas 12, 032501

S. D. Pinches, R. G. L. Vann and 15 others (2004) The role of energetic particles in fusion plasmas Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 46, B187

R. G. L. Vann, R. O. Dendy, G. Rowlands, T. D. Arber and N. D'Ambrumenil (2003) Fully nonlinear phenomenology of the Berk-Breizman augmentation of the Vlasov-Maxwell system Phys. Plasmas 10 , 623

T. D. Arber and R. G. L. Vann (2002) A critical comparison of Eulerian-grid-based Vlasov solvers Journal of Computational Physics 180, 339

Un-refereed Conference Proceedings

R. G. L. Vann , S. J. Freethy, B. K. Huang and V. F. Shevchenko (2010) Using Bernstein wave emission to measure the current in the tokamak edge 38th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics P-2.141

S. Freethy, B. K. Huang, V. Shevchenko and R. G. L. Vann (2011) Recent progress with the MAST synthetic aperture
imaging radiometer 38th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics P2.050

R. G. L. Vann , S. J. Freethy and V. F. Shevchenko (2010) Using Bernstein wave emission to measure the current in the tokamak edge 37th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics ECA 34A P-5.138

A. J. De-Gol, S. D. Pinches and R. G. L. Vann (2009) Plasma response to a forced oscillation in a 1D modified Vlasov system 36th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics ECA 33E P-1.123

N. Ben Ayed, A. Kirk, B. Dudson, R. G. L. Vann, S. Tallents, H. R. Wilson and the MAST team (2008) Experimental observation of inter-ELM filaments on MAST 35th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics ECA 32D P-1.007

R. G. L. Vann, L. Appel, P. J. Denner, M. P. Gryaznevich, M. K. Lilley, R. Martin, S. D. Pinches, S. E. Sharapov, C. T. N. Willis and the MAST team (2008) Modelling observations of mode polarisation from MAST 35th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics ECA 32D P-4.064

N. Ben Ayed, B. Dudson, A. Kirk, R. G. L. Vann, H. R. Wilson, S. Tallents and the MAST team (2007) Structure and motion of inter-ELM filaments in MAST 34th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics ECA 31F P-1.057

R. G. L. Vann, R. O. Dendy, S. D Pinches, S. E. Sharapov and JET-EFDA contributors (2005) Frequency splitting in JET: theory and observation Proc. 32nd EPS Conf. Plasma Physics ECA 29C O-2.020

R. G. L. Vann, R. O. Dendy, M. P. Gryaznevich and S. E. Sharapov (2004) Theory and observation of frequency splitting and sweeping in tokamaks Proc. 31st EPS Conf. Plasma Physics ECA 28G P-1.113