MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
(617) 253-6748
NW16-236
Education
Ph.D. in Physics,
University of Texas at Austin (2007)
Research
Interests
Plasma Physics,
Computational Physics, Fluid Dynamics, Statistical Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics.
Research
Experience
Postdoctoral
Associate, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT (2010–present)
Research Associate,
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College (2007–2010)
Selected
Publications
B. Li and D. R.
Ernst, Gyrokinetic Fokker-Planck Collision Operator, Physical Review
Letters, 106, 195002 (2011)
B. Li, B. N. Rogers,
P. Ricci, K. W. Gentle and A. Bhattacharjee, Turbulence and bias-induced flows in simple magnetized
toroidal plasmas, Physical Review E, 83, 056406 (2011).
B.
D. G. Chandran, B. Li, B. N. Rogers, E. Quataert, and K. Germaschewski, Perpendicular Ion
Heating by Low-frequency Alfven-wave Turbulence in the Solar Wind, The Astrophysical Journal, 720, 503-515 (2010).
B. Li, B. N. Rogers,
P. Ricci, and K. W. Gentle, Plasma transport and turbulence in the Helimak: Simulation
and experiment, Physics of Plasmas, 16, 082510 (2009).
L. J. Zheng, B. Li, R.
D. Hazeltine, Bifurcated states of the error-field-induced magnetic
islands, Physics Letters A, 372, 2056-2060
(2008).
B. Li, R. D.
Hazeltine, and K. W. Gentle, Plasma fluctuations as Markovian noise, Physical Review E,
76, 066402 (2007).
B. Li and R. D.
Hazeltine, Applications of noise theory to plasma fluctuations, Physical Review E,
73, 065402(R) (2006).