Brendan Shanahan Physicist MIT PSFC

Selected Publications

As primary author

*indicates dual first authorship

Global fluid turbulence simulations in the scrape-off layer of a stellarator island divertor

B Shanahan, D Bold, and B Dudson

Journal of Plasma Physics , 90 (2), 905900216 (2024)

Filament simulations for stellarators; a review of recent progress

B Shanahan

Frontiers in Physics 12:1399287 (2024)

Estimating the error in filament propagation measurement using a synthetic probe

B Shanahan, C Killer, G Pechstein, S A Henneberg, G Fuchert, and O Grulke

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 63 125018 (2021)

Plasma filaments in the scrape-off layer of Wendelstein 7-X

C Killer*, B Shanahan*, O Grulke, M Endler, K Hammond, L Rudischhauser and the W7-X Team

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 62 085003 (2020)

Filament simulations in regions of highly-varying parallel connection length

B Shanahan & P Huslage

Journal of Plasma Physics, 86 (3), 905860314 (2020)

Fluid simulations of plasma filaments in stellarator geometries with BSTING

B W Shanahan, B D Dudson and P Hill

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 61 0250007 (2019)

The effects of non-uniform drive on plasma filaments

B W Shanahan, B D Dudson and P Hill

Journal of Physics, Conference Series 1125 012018 (2018)

Blob Dynamics in Torpex poloidal null configurations

B W Shanahan and B D Dudson

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 58 125003 (2016)

Towards nonaxisymmetry; initial results using the Flux Coordinate Independent method in BOUT++

B W Shanahan, P Hill, and B D Dudson

Journal of Physics, Conference Series 775 012012 (2016)

X-point modelling in linear configurations using BOUT++

B Shanahan and B Dudson

Journal of Physics, Conference Series 561 012015 (2014)

Otherwise authored

Gas puff imaging of plasma turbulence in the magnetic island scrape-off layer of W7-X

S.G. Baek, S. Ballinger, O. Grulke, C. Killer, A. von Stechow, J.L. Terry, F. Scharmer, and B. Shanahan

Nuclear Materials and Energy, 101937 (2025) 2352-1791

On heat conduction in a plasma with a magnetic island

G. Pechstein, P. Helander and B. Shanahan

Journal of Plasma Physics , 91 (1), E37 (2025)

Coherence of turbulent structures with varying drive in stellarator edge plasmas

P Huslage, G Birkenmeier, B Shanahan and C Killer

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 66 (2024) 015006

Dirichlet boundary conditions for arbitrary-shaped boundaries in stellarator-like magnetic fields for the Flux-Coordinate Independent method

P Hill, B W Shanahan and B D Dudson

Computer Physics Communications 213 (2017) 9–18

A novel flexible field-aligned coordinate system for tokamak edge plasma simulation

J Leddy, B Dudson, M Romanelli, B Shanahan, and N Walkden

Computer Physics Communications 212 (2017) 59–68

Hot rolling of gamma titanium aluminide foil

S L Semiatin, B W Shanahan and F Meisenkothen

Acta Materialia, 58 (2010), 44464457

Brendan Shanahan

Physicist | MIT PSFC

Education

PhD | Physics

University of York

MA | Physics

University of Wisconsin-Madison

MSc | Fusion Energy

University of York

BS | Physics

University of Dayton

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