The Institute for Fusion Studies
Office: RLM 11.320
Phone: 512-471-1594
Fax: 512-471-6715
Space Physics & Astronomy
Star Power Fusion Research
WINDMI Space Physics Research
TRANSPORT BARRIER DYNAMICS (in .pdf format, 1.1megs)
Dr. Horton is a widely known authority on plasma physics. Horton's core area of research is plasma transport. He has published a wide range of scientific works on plasma transport ranging from the fundamental symmetries in collisional and turbulent transport equations to exotic soliton wave transport mechanics.
The support and applications for his research is principally from the quest for plasma confinement for achieving thermonuclear fusion in the laboratory. Since 1987 Horton has devoted part of his research activities to transport in the Earth's magnetosphere. The magnetosphere is characterized by an extremely collisionless plasma making available new plasma transport regimes well beyond those existing in laboratory plasmas.
New Preprints:
Dynamical range of the WINDMI model: An exploration of possible magnetospheric plasma states
New Review Article: "Drift Waves and Transport" (IFSR #798) published in the Review of Modern Physics, vol 71, pp 735-778, 1999.
In PDF format (885k)
In PS format (1037k)
Current Abstracts
Current Reprints
New Book
Space Physics Research supported by National Science Foundation Grant WINDMI
Substorm Dynamics from a Low-Order Physics Model
Rice Colloquium, 2 February 1999
Weather and Space Weather: GEM 2000 and 1998 Snowmass
NERSC 1998, Transport Simulations
Transport Simulation at NERSC, 1997
PHY 302L, Course Information for Fall 2003
Updated Vita (2007)
email: horton@physics.utexas.edu