Research

Thank you for your interest on our research activities. From the recent academic history, you’ll see what we’re currently doing.

Research topics of our interests

Physics and simulations of Gyrokinetics and turbulence transport in nuclear fusion
Virtual Tokamak development (Digital twin, VR) - Unreal game engine, Unity, Blender, etc…
Automatic unstructured mesh generation and its utilization - PUMI(RPI SCOREC), SimModSuite(Simmetrix)
High performance computing (Code parallelization and optimization)
Machine learning (Data-driven & Physics-Informed)

Geon Kim, Yunsong Jung, Myeongkyu Lee, Eisung Yoon*, Sangjoon Ahn*, SANTA: A safety analysis code for neutron absorbers in spent nuclear fuel pools, Computer Physics Communications 282, 108513 Link

Dongkyu Kim, Janghoon Seo, Gahyung Jo, Jae-Min Kwon, Eisung Yoon*, Nonlinear Fokker-Planck collision operator in Rosenbluth form for gyrokinetic simulations using discontinuous Galerkin method, Computer Physics Communications 279, 108459 Link
D. Kim, J. Kang, M.W. Lee, J. Candy, E.S. Yoon, S. Yi, J.-M. Kwon, Y.-c, Ghim, W. Choe, C. Sung*, Progress in gyrokinetic validation studies using NBI heated L-mode discharge in KSTAR, Current Applied Physics 42, 60 Link
Gahyung Jo*, Jae-Min Kwon, Janghoon Seo, Eisung Yoon, Development of a gyrokinetic hyperbolic solver based on discontinuous Galerkin method in tokamak geometry, Computer Physics Communications 273, 108265 Link

Gerrett Diamond*, Cameron W. Smith, Chonglin Zhang, Eisung Yoon, Mark S. Shephard, PUMIPic: A mesh-based approach to unstructured mesh Particle-In-Cell on GPUs, Journal of parallel and distributed computing 157, 1 Link

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Sungpil Yum, Kyu Been Kwon, and Eisung Yoon*, Numerical grid matching for Coupling SOLPS-ITER and NEO, Transactions of the Korean Nuclear Society Spring Meeting, Jeju, Korea, May 18-19, 2023
Dami Jung, Jae-Min Kwon, and Eisung Yoon*, Selecting dominant modes and reducing data dimensionality on GENE data with DMD, Transactions of the Korean Nuclear Society Spring Meeting, Jeju, Korea, May 18-19, 2023

Taeuk Moon, Tongryeol Lee, Juhyung Kim, Jae-Min Kwon, and Eisung Yoon*, Ray-casting based detection of fast ion collision on plasma-facing wall implemented in NuBDeC, KPS 70th Anniversary and 2022 Fall Meeting
Sungpil Yum and Eisung Yoon*, Unsupervised machine-learning algorithm for Orbit classification of electron trajectory under magnetic island, KPS 70th Anniversary and 2022 Fall Meeting
Eisung Yoon and Jae-Min Kwon*, Learning data-driven kinetic Landau fluid closures from particle simulations, INTERNATIONAL FUSION AND PLASMA CONFERENCE 2022
Taeuk Moon, Gahyung Jo, Janghoon Seo, Juhyung Kim, Jae-Min Kwon, and Eisung Yoon*, About Introducing Field-aligned Prism Elements in Tokamak Geometry, INTERNATIONAL FUSION AND PLASMA CONFERENCE 2022
Chanju Park, Eisung Yoon*, Wonjun Tae, Jayhyun Kim, Jisung Kang, Jae-Min Kwon, and Minjun J. Choi, Simulation of flows near magnetic island observed in KSTAR experiments using GENE, INTERNATIONAL FUSION AND PLASMA CONFERENCE 2022
(Oral) Hyeongjun Noh, Jimin Lee*, and Eisung Yoon, Deep Learning-based Fokker-Planck-Landau Collision Operator for Fusion Plasma Simulation: A Preliminary Study, The 54th KNS 2022 Spring Meeting
Sungpil Yum, Eisung Yoon*, Wonjun Tae, Dongkyu Kim, and Min Sup Hur, Particle motions in Magnetic Island, The 54th KNS 2022 Spring Meeting

Three dimensional visualization of plasma and development of simulation data analysis technique for nuclear fusion digital twin (‘23 ~ ‘25, NRF grant-PI: Prof. Sun-Jeong Kim @ Hallym Univ.)
- ESY
Data-driven modeling of governing equation for plasmas (‘23 ~ ‘24, UNIST grant)
- Darian Figuera, Dami Jung, ESY
Development of a unified core-edge-SOL code for divertor design (‘22 ~ ‘24, NRF grant)
- Sungpil Yum, ESY
Development of mesh technology to visualize simulation results in virtual reality (‘22 ~ ‘23, KFE grant)
- Taeuk Moon, Darian Figuera, ESY
- Virtual K-STAR (Digital twin) dev
- gKPSP3 (3D whole device modeling) dev
- NuBDeC (Fast ion) dev
- MHD code dev
Development of educational program for human resources in nuclear fusion (‘21 ~ ‘24, KHNP grant)
- ESY
Artificial Intelligence based Nuclear Fusion Plasma Collision Simulation (‘22 ~ ‘23, UNIST grant-PI: Prof. Jimin Lee @ UNIST)
- Hyungjun Noh, Prof. Jimin Lee (UNIST RAMI Lab), ESY

Interaction between Magnetic Island and Turbulence
- Research fund granted by National Research Foundation of Korea (‘19 ~ ‘21)
Turbulence spreading over Magnetic Island (‘19 ~ )