Elena Belova

• phone: 609-243-2641
• email: ebelova@pppl.gov

Elena V. Belova is a Principal Research Physicist at the Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory. She received a M.S. in physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Russia), and worked at the Space Research Institute in Moscow, Russia till 1992. She received a Ph. D. in plasma physics from Dartmouth College, Hanover NH in 1997. Following a three year post doctoral position with Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, she joined PPPL staff in 2000.

Her research interests include: kinetic effects on the MHD stability; interaction of energetic particles with MHD waves; global stability of the Field-Reversed Configurations; numerical simulations, and fluid/kinetic(gyro-kinetic) hybrid models of plasmas. She is currently active in the area of MHD and hybrid simulations of the Field-Reversed Configurations, and numerical studies of MHD instabilities driven by the energetic neutral beam ions in NSTX.

Dr. Belova was the recipient of the Katherine E. Weimer award in 2005.

• "Coupling of Neutral-Beam-Driven Compressional Alfvén Eigenmodes to Kinetic Alfvén Waves in NSTX Tokamak and Energy Channeling"
  E.V. Belova, N. N. Gorelenkov et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 015001 (2015)
• "Advances in the numerical modeling of field-reversed configurations"
  Elena V. Belova, Ronald C. Davidson et al., Phys. Plasmas 13, 056115 (2006)
• "Kinetic effects on the stability properties of field-reversed configurations. I. Linear stability"
  Elena V. Belova, Ronald C. Davidson et al., Phys. Plasmas 10, 2361 (2003)

• DOE highlight, 2014 : Coupling of Neutral-beam-driven Compressional Alfvén Eigenmodes to Kinetic Alfvén Waves in NSTX and Energy Channelling