Wrick Sengupta

• email: ws3883@princeton.edu

My research explores the magnetic confinement of plasmas in various geometries. I use asymptotic methods to understand the interaction of nonlinearities and geometric factors in confined plasmas. Of particular interest to me is the study of magnetic fields with a hidden symmetry that hold promise for next generation stellarators. I am also interested in exploring kinetic theory and plasma turbulence through simple solvable models.

I am currently an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. Previously, I was a postdoctoral associate at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. I received my PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park.

• "Direct construction of optimized stellarator shapes. Part 1. Theory in cylindrical coordinates"
  Matt Landerman and Wrick Sengupta, J. of Plasma Physics, 84, 905840616 (2018)
• "Direct construction of optimized stellarator shapes. Part 2. Numerical quasisymmetric solutions"
  Matt Landerman, Wrick Sengupta and Gabriel Plunk, J. of Plasma Physics, 85, 905850103 (2019)
• "Exact non-symmetric closed line vacuum magnetic fields in a topological torus"
  Harold Weitzner and Wrick Sengupta, Phys. Plasma, 27, 022509 (2020)