Professor Robert L. Dewar

Professor
Coordinator for the Centre for Complex Systems

Department of Theoretical Physics
Research School of Physical Science & Engineering
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Australia

Room: 107, Le Couteur Building
Telephone +61 2 6125 2949
Fax: + 61-2- 6125 8766
E-mail:rld105@rsphysse.anu.edu.au
Web page: http://wwwrsphysse.anu.edu.au/~rld105/Dewar_Docs/

Research Interests

I work in the general area of theoretical plasma physics. This field provides a rich array of problems in classical field theory, fluid dynamics, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. I work mainly in problems related to laboratory plasmas, in particular to those at ANU, but have also an interest in space and astrophysical plasmas. Topics of current interest include:

Linear spectrum of waves and instabilities in stellarators -- a classical application of "quantum chaos" theory?
Breakup of invariant (KAM) tori in Hamiltonian systems and its effect on toroidal plasma equilibria - a problem combining classical chaos theory with magnetohydrodynamics -- do three --dimensional MHD equilibria exist?
Dynamical systems description of plasmas -- transport bifurcations etc.

For more details see my Web page and that of the Plasma Theory group.

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