Publications
You can find all of my publications on my Google Scholar profile. Feel free to contact me for copies of any papers or presentations I’ve authored!
Selected Publications by Topic
Turbulence in basic fluid and plasma systems
 | - The maintenance of coherent vortex topology by Lagrangian chaos in drift-Rossby wave turbulence
Phys. Fluids 36 061701 (2024); doi:10.1063/5.0207687 arXiv:2402.13942
N.M. Cao and D. Qi - Nearly integrable flows and chaotic tangles in the Dimits shift regime of plasma edge turbulence
Phys. Plasmas 30 092307 (2023); doi:10.1063/5.0158013 arXiv:2309.15764
N.M. Cao and D. Qi
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 | - Rossby waves past the breaking point in zonally dominated turbulence
J. Fluid Mech. 958 A28 (2023); doi:10.1017/jfm.2023.90
N.M. Cao
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Turbulence in tokamak plasmas
 | - Evidence and modeling of turbulence bifurcation in L-mode confinement transitions on Alcator C-Mod
Phys. Plasmas 27 052303 (2020); doi:10.1063/1.5144444
N.M. Cao, J.E. Rice, P.H. Diamond, A.E. White, M.A. Chilenski, P.C. Ennever, J.W. Hughes, J. Irby, M.L. Reinke and P. Rodriguez-Fernandez - Hysteresis as a probe of turbulent bifurcation in intrinsic rotation reversals on Alcator C-Mod
Nucl. Fusion 59 104001 (2019); doi:10.1088/1741-4326/ab3b38
N.M. Cao, J.E. Rice, P.H. Diamond, A.E. White, Baek S.G., M.A. Chilenski, J.W. Hughes, J. Irby, M.L. Reinke and P. Rodriguez-Fernandez
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Advanced Uncertainty Quantification
 | - Quantifying Resolution Limits in Pedestal Profile Measurements with Gaussian Process Regression
Manuscript under preparation for submission 2025
N.M. Cao, D.R. Hatch, C. Michoski, T.A. Oliver, D. Eldon, A.O. Nelson, M. Waller
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 | - Bayesian Spectral Moment Estimation and Uncertainty Quantification
IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 48 22–30 (2020); doi:10.1109/TPS.2019.2946952
N.M. Cao and F. Sciortino
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Fusion reactor engineering
- Conceptual design study for heat exhaust management in the ARC fusion pilot plant
Fusion Eng. Des. 137 221–42 (2018); doi:10.1016/j.fusengdes.2018.09.007
Kuang A.Q., N.M. Cao, Creely A.J., Dennett C.A., Hecla J., LaBombard B., Tinguely R.A., Tolman E.A., Hoffman H., Major M., Ruiz Ruiz J., Brunner D., Grover P., Laughman C., Sorbom B.N. and Whyte D.G.
(Note: This publication was the result of a group project for MIT 22.63 Engineering Principles for Fusion Reactors)
Selected Presentations
- Rossby Waves Past the Breaking Point in Zonally-Dominated Turbulence
12th Festival de Théorie; July 8, 2022; Aix-en-Provence, France (youtube) - Hysteresis as a Probe of Turbulent Bifurcation in Intrinsic Rotation Reversals on Alcator C-Mod
Invited Talk. 61st APS-DPP Meeting; October 21-25, 2019; Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Observation and Quasilinear Modeling of Rotation Reversal Hysteresis in Alcator C-Mod Plasmas
Best Student Poster Prize Winner. 24th Joint US-EU Transport Task Force Meeting; March 18-21, 2019; Austin, Texas - Observation and Quasilinear Modeling of Rotation Reversal Hysteresis in Alcator C-Mod Plasmas
Invited Talk. 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics; November 12-17, 2018; Kanazawa, Japan
