A.W. Leonard

18.2k citations

276 papers · 9.5k · 3 hit papers · h-index 47

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 0.05%
- Magnetic confinement fusion research
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.5%
- Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
- Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 266
- Magnetic confinement fusion research 266
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics 76
Materials Chemistry 176
- Fusion materials and technologies 175
- Nuclear Materials and Properties 12

Co-authors: P.B. Snyder (44 shared papers)T.H. Osborne (52 shared papers)R. J. Groebner (65 shared papers)H. R. Wilson (12 shared papers)G. D. Porter (61 shared papers)M.E. Fenstermacher (72 shared papers)J.G. Watkins (78 shared papers)T.H. Osborne (32 shared papers)
Journals: Journal of Nuclear Materials (71 papers)Nuclear Fusion (58 papers)Physics of Plasmas (34 papers)Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (25 papers)Nuclear Materials and Energy (17 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada Germany

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A.W. Leonard

266 papers receiving 9.0k citations

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Scaling of the tokamak near the scrape-off layer H-mode power width and implications for ITER 2013 · 431 citations

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it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2013 Nuclear Fusion
2006 Nature Physics
2002 Physics of Plasmas

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1	Edge localized modes and the pedestal: A model based on coupled peeling–ballooning modes Physics of Plasmas ·P.B. Snyder, H. R. Wilson, J.R. Ferron, L. L. Lao, A.W. Leonard, T.H. Osborne, A. D. Turnbull, D. Mossessian, M. Murakami, X. Q. Xu Hit paper breakdown →	2002	598
2	Edge stability and transport control with resonant magnetic perturbations in collisionless tokamak plasmas Nature Physics ·T.E. Evans, R. A. Moyer, K.H. Burrell, M.E. Fenstermacher, I. Joseph, A.W. Leonard, T.H. Osborne, G. D. Porter, M. J. Schaffer, P.B. Snyder, Paul Thomas, J.G. Watkins, W.P. West Hit paper breakdown →	2006	481
3	Scaling of the tokamak near the scrape-off layer H-mode power width and implications for ITER Nuclear Fusion ·T. Eich, A.W. Leonard, R.A. Pitts, W. Fundamenski, R.J. Goldston, Travis Gray, A. Herrmann, A. Kirk, A. Kallenbach, O. Kardaun, A.S. Kukushkin, B. LaBombard, R. Maingi, M. A. Makowski, A. Scarabosio, B. Sieglin, J. L. Terry, A. Thornton, (unknown), (unknown) Hit paper breakdown →	2013	431
4	Characteristics of type I ELM energy and particle losses in existing devices and their extrapolation to ITER Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion ·A. Loarte, G. Saibene, F. Sartori, D. Campbell, M. Bécoulet, L. D. Horton, T. Eich, A. Herrmann, G.F. Matthews, N. Asakura, A. Chankin, A.W. Leonard, G. D. Porter, G. Federici, G. Janeschitz, M. Shimada, M. Sugihara	2003	409
5	A first-principles predictive model of the pedestal height and width: development, testing and ITER optimization with the EPED model Nuclear Fusion ·P.B. Snyder, R. J. Groebner, J. W. Hughes, T.H. Osborne, M. Beurskens, A.W. Leonard, H. R. Wilson, X. Q. Xu	2011	331
6	Transport by intermittent convection in the boundary of the DIII-D tokamak Physics of Plasmas ·J.A. Boedo, D.L. Rudakov, R. A. Moyer, S. I. Krasheninnikov, D.G. Whyte, G. R. McKee, George Tynan, M. J. Schaffer, P.C. Stangeby, P. West, S. W. Allen, T.E. Evans, R. J. Fonck, E.M. Hollmann, A.W. Leonard, A. Mahdavi, G. D. Porter, M. S. Tillack, G. Antar	2001	292
7	Development and validation of a predictive model for the pedestal height Physics of Plasmas ·P.B. Snyder, R. J. Groebner, A.W. Leonard, T.H. Osborne, H. R. Wilson	2009	259
8	Edge-localized-modes in tokamaks Physics of Plasmas ·A.W. Leonard	2014	258
9	Stability and dynamics of the edge pedestal in the low collisionality regime: physics mechanisms for steady-state ELM-free operation Nuclear Fusion ·P.B. Snyder, K.H. Burrell, H. R. Wilson, M. S. Chu, M.E. Fenstermacher, A.W. Leonard, R. A. Moyer, T.H. Osborne, M. Umansky, W.P. West, X. Q. Xu	2007	207
10	First tests of molybdenum mirrors for ITER diagnostics in DIII-D divertor Review of Scientific Instruments ·D.L. Rudakov, J.A. Boedo, R. A. Moyer, A. Litnovsky, V. Philipps, P. Wienhold, S. L. Allen, M.E. Fenstermacher, M. Groth, C.J. Lasnier, R. L. Boivin, N.H. Brooks, A.W. Leonard, W.P. West, C.P.C. Wong, A.G. McLean, P.C. Stangeby, G. De Temmerman, W.R. Wampler, J.G. Watkins	2006	192
11	ELMs and constraints on the H-mode pedestal: peeling–ballooning stability calculation and comparison with experiment Nuclear Fusion ·P.B. Snyder, H. R. Wilson, J.R. Ferron, L. L. Lao, A.W. Leonard, D. Mossessian, M. Murakami, T.H. Osborne, A. D. Turnbull, X. Q. Xu	2004	163
12	Fluctuation-driven transport in the DIII-D boundary Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion ·D.L. Rudakov, J.A. Boedo, R. A. Moyer, S. I. Krasheninnikov, A.W. Leonard, M. A. Mahdavi, G. R. McKee, G. D. Porter, P.C. Stangeby, J.G. Watkins, W.P. West, D.G. Whyte, G. Antar	2002	137
13	Plasma detachment in divertor tokamaks Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion ·A.W. Leonard	2018	131
14	Transient heat loads in current fusion experiments, extrapolation to ITER and consequences for its operation Physica Scripta ·A. Loarte, G. Saibene, F. Sartori, V. Riccardo, P. Andrew, J. I. Paley, W. Fundamenski, T. Eich, A. Herrmann, G. Pautasso, A. Kirk, G. Counsell, G. Federici, G. Strohmayer, D.G. Whyte, A.W. Leonard, R.A. Pitts, I. Landman, Б. Базылев, S. Pestchanyi	2007	127
15	The EPED pedestal model and edge localized mode-suppressed regimes: Studies of quiescent H-mode and development of a model for edge localized mode suppression via resonant magnetic perturbations Physics of Plasmas ·P.B. Snyder, T.H. Osborne, K.H. Burrell, R. J. Groebner, A.W. Leonard, R. Nazikian, D.M. Orlov, O. Schmitz, M. R. Wade, H. R. Wilson	2012	126
16	Effect of island overlap on edge localized mode suppression by resonant magnetic perturbations in DIII-D Physics of Plasmas ·M.E. Fenstermacher, T.E. Evans, T.H. Osborne, M. J. Schaffer, M. P. Aldan, J.S. deGrassie, P. Gohil, I. Joseph, R. A. Moyer, P.B. Snyder, R. J. Groebner, M. Jakubowski, A.W. Leonard, O. Schmitz, (unknown)	2008	123
17	The effect of plasma shape on H-mode pedestal characteristics on DIII-D Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion ·T.H. Osborne, J. R. Ferron, R. J. Groebner, L. L. Lao, A.W. Leonard, M. A. Mahdavi, R. Maingi, R. Miller, A. D. Turnbull, M. R. Wade, J.G. Watkins	2000	106
18	Characterization of peeling–ballooning stability limits on the pedestal Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion ·P.B. Snyder, H. R. Wilson, T.H. Osborne, A.W. Leonard	2004	102
19	The impact of ELMs on the ITER divertor Journal of Nuclear Materials ·A.W. Leonard, A. Herrmann, K. Itami, J. Lingertat, A. Loarte, T. H. Osborne, W. Suttrop, the ITER Divertor Modeling and Database Expert Group, the ITER Divertor Physics Expert Group	1999	102
20	Analysis of a multi-machine database on divertor heat fluxes Physics of Plasmas ·M. A. Makowski, D. Elder, Travis Gray, B. LaBombard, C.J. Lasnier, A.W. Leonard, R. Maingi, T.H. Osborne, P.C. Stangeby, J. L. Terry, J.G. Watkins	2012	101

About A.W. Leonard

A.W. Leonard is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Aerospace Engineering, having authored 276 papers that have together received 9.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Magnetic confinement fusion research (266 papers), Fusion materials and technologies (175 papers), Superconducting Materials and Applications (94 papers), Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (76 papers), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (66 papers), Particle accelerators and beam dynamics (32 papers), Plasma Diagnostics and Applications (18 papers) and Nuclear Materials and Properties (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (9.0k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (3.6k citations), Materials Chemistry (5.0k citations), Aerospace Engineering (1.9k citations) and Biomedical Engineering (2.6k citations). A.W. Leonard has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Frequent co-authors include P.B. Snyder, T.H. Osborne, R. J. Groebner, H. R. Wilson, G. D. Porter, M.E. Fenstermacher, J.G. Watkins, T.H. Osborne, W.P. West and R. A. Moyer. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Nuclear Materials, Nuclear Fusion, Physics of Plasmas, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion and Nuclear Materials and Energy.

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