First-author publications

Y. Zhou, K. Aleynikova, C. Liu, and N. M. Ferraro, Benign Saturation of Ideal Ballooning Instability in a High-Performance Stellarator, Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 135102 (2024).

Y. Zhou, K. Aleynikova, and N. M. Ferraro, Nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic modeling of current-drive-induced sawtooth-like crashes in the W7-X stellarator, Phys. Plasmas 30, 032503 (2023).

Y. Zhou, N. M. Ferraro, S. C. Jardin, and H. R. Strauss, Approach to nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic simulations in stellarator geometry, Nucl. Fusion 61, 086015 (2021).

Y. Zhou, H. Zhu, and I. Y. Dodin, Solitary zonal structures in subcritical drift waves: a minimum model, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 62, 045021 (2020).

Y. Zhou, H. Zhu, and I. Y. Dodin, Formation of solitary zonal structures via the modulational instability of drift waves, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 61, 075003 (2019).

Y. Zhou, Y.-M. Huang, A. H. Reiman, H. Qin, and A. Bhattacharjee, Magnetohydrodynamical equilibria with current singularities and continuous rotational transform, Phys. Plasmas 26, 022103 (2019).

Y. Zhou, Y.-M. Huang, H. Qin, and A. Bhattacharjee, Constructing current singularity in a 3D line-tied plasma, Astrophys. J. 852, 3 (2018).

Y. Zhou, Y.-M. Huang, H. Qin, and A. Bhattacharjee, Formation of current singularity in a topologically constrained plasma, Phys. Rev. E 93, 023205 (2016).

Y. Zhou, H. Qin, J. W. Burby, and A. Bhattacharjee, Variational integration for ideal magnetohydrodynamics with built-in advection equations, Phys. Plasmas 21, 102109 (2014).

Co-authored publications

Y.-M. Huang, Y. Zhou, S. R. Hudson, J. Loizu, and A. Bhattacharjee, Structure of pressure-gradient-driven current singularity in ideal magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 65, 034008 (2023).

Y.-M. Huang, S. R. Hudson, J. Loizu, Y. Zhou, and A. Bhattacharjee, Numerical study of $\delta$-function current sheets arising from resonant magnetic perturbations, Phys. Plasmas 29, 032513 (2022).

H. Zhu, Y. Zhou, and I. Y. Dodin, Theory of the tertiary instability and the Dimits shift within a scalar model, J. Plasma Phys. 86, 905860405 (2020).

D. Pfefferlé, L. Noakes, and Y. Zhou, Rigidity of MHD equilibria to smooth incompressible ideal motion near resonant surfaces, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 62, 074004 (2020).

V. Tsiolis, Y. Zhou, and I. Y. Dodin, Structure formation in turbulence as instability of effective quantum plasma, Phys. Lett. A 384, 126377 (2020).

H. Zhu, Y. Zhou, and I. Y. Dodin, Theory of the tertiary instability and the Dimits shift from reduced drift-wave models, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 055002 (2020).

I. Y. Dodin, D. E. Ruiz, K. Yanagihara, Y. Zhou, S. Kubo, Quasioptical modeling of wave beams with and without mode conversion. I. Basic theory, Phys. Plasmas 26, 072110 (2019).

H. Zhu, Y. Zhou, and I. Y. Dodin, Nonlinear saturation and oscillations of collisionless zonal flows, New J. Phys. 21, 063009 (2019).

H. Zhu, Y. Zhou, and I. Y. Dodin, On the Rayleigh–Kuo criterion for the tertiary instability of zonal flows, Phys. Plasmas 25, 082121 (2018).

H. Zhu, Y. Zhou, and I. Y. Dodin, On the structure of the drifton phase space and its relation to the Rayleigh–Kuo criterion of the zonal-flow stability, Phys. Plasmas 25, 072121 (2018).

H. Zhu, Y. Zhou, D. E. Ruiz, and I. Y. Dodin, Wave kinetics of drift-wave turbulence and zonal flows beyond the ray approximation, Phys. Rev. E 97, 053210 (2018).

H. Qin, J. Liu, J. Xiao, R. Zhang, Y. He, Y. Wang, J. W. Burby, C. L. Ellison, and Y. Zhou. Canonical symplectic particle-in-cell method for long-term large-scale simulations of the Vlasov-Maxwell equations, Nucl. Fusion 56, 014001 (2016).

Ph.D. Thesis

Y. Zhou, Variational Integration for Ideal Magnetohydrodynamics and Formation of Current Singularities, Ph.D. thesis (Princeton University, 2017).