Vinícius Njaim Duarte

For an up-to-date full list of publications, refer to my Google Scholar profile.

Selected Publications

E. G. Devin and V. N. Duarte, “Emergence of advection-diffusion transport structure and nonlinear amplitude evolution of strongly driven instabilities”, ArXiv:2510.08735 (2025) .
T. Barberis, V. N. Duarte, et al, “Perturbative model for the saturation of energetic-particle-driven modes limited by self-generated zonal modes”, Nucl. Fusion 65, 112005 (2025) .
V. N. Duarte, J. B. Lestz et al, “Shifting and splitting of resonance lines due to dynamical friction in plasmas”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 105101 (2023).
C. Hamilton, E. Tolman, L. Arzamasskiy and V. N. Duarte, “Galactic bar resonances with diffusion: an analytic model with implications for dynamical friction by trapped dark matter,” Astrophys. J. 954, 12 (2023).
V. N. Duarte, “A class of solutions of the two-dimensional Toda lattice equation”, Phys. Lett. A 385, 126979 (2021).
J. B. Lestz and V. N. Duarte, “Analytic quasi-steady evolution of marginally unstable kinetic plasma instabilities in the presence of drag and scattering,” Phys. Plasmas 28, 062102 (2021).
A. Bierwage, R. B. White and V. N. Duarte, “On the effect of Beating during Nonlinear Frequency Chirping,” Plasma Fusion Res. 16, 1403087 (2021).
V. N. Duarte et al, “Collisional resonance function in discrete-resonance quasilinear plasma systems” Phys. Plasmas 26, 120701 (2019).
V. N. Duarte et al, “Analytical nonlinear dynamics of near-threshold eigenmodes,” Nucl. Fusion 59, 044003 (2019).
V. N. Duarte et al, “Prediction of Nonlinear Evolution Character of Energetic-Particle-Driven Instabilities,” Nucl. Fusion 57, 054001 (2017).

Technical presentations

JPP Frontiers of Plasma Physics Colloquium, 2024, Formulation of a self-consistent reduced transport theory for discrete modes-with applications to resonant dynamics in plasmas and galaxies

Invited talk at the Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, 2020, Integrated two-dimensional quasilinear modeling of fast ion relaxation in tokamaks

Outreach presentations

Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) Program, 2024, Introduction to Plasma Physics

Brazil LAB, Princeton University, 2024, Imaginable Horizons

University of São Paulo Public Lecture, 2021, Controlled thermonuclear fusion: a clean, safe and inexhautible source of energy (in Portuguese)

Nexo Políticas Públicas, 2021, What is nuclear fusion and why is it important for the future of the planet? (in Portuguese)

CNN Brasil on nuclear fusion developments in Brazil, 2025 (in Portuguese)

Available projects

Understanding the Validity of the Near-Threshold Assumption for Nonlinear Kinetic Plasma Instabilities.

Lecture notes

M. D. Kruskal, Asymptotology (1962).
M. D. Kruskal, Nonlinear wave equations (1975).
J. M. Greene, Introduction to resistive instabilities (1976).
R. M. O. Galvão, Resistive instabilities in magnetized plasmas (1989).
R. M. O. Galvão, Teoria MHD (1989).
R. A. Clemente, Topics of MHD theory: applications to field reversed configurations (1990).
R. A. Clemente, MHD stability of a longitudinal pinch (1990).
H. L. Berk, Overview of nonlinear kinetic instabilities (2012).
C. Villani, Landau damping; (Ir)reversibility and entropy; Kinetic Theory.
VND, The Kruskal-Shafranov criterion.

Paradigmatic references not readily available online

L. D. Landau, On the vibrations of the electronic plasma, Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 16, 574 (1946).
N. G. Van Kampen, On the theory of stationary waves in plasmas, Physica 21, 949 (1955).
B. R. Suydam, Stability of a linear pinch, Los Alamos Report No. A/CONF. 15/P/354 (1958).
A. A. Vedenov, E. P. Velikhov, and R. Z. Sagdeev, Stability of plasma, Usp. Fiz. Nauk. 73, 701 (1961).
W. E. Drummond and D. Pines, Non-linear stability of plasma oscillations, Nucl. Fusion 3, 1049 (1962).
V. E. Zakharov and V. I. Karpman, On the nonlinear theory of the damping of plasma waves, Sov. Phys. JETP 16, 351 (1963).
B. B. Kadomtsev, Plasma Turbulence , Academic Press (1965).
R. K. Mazitov, Damping of plasma waves, Zh. Prikl. Mekh. Fiz. 1, 27 (1965).
L. M. Al'tshul and V. I. Karpman, Theory of nonlinear oscillations in a collisionless plasma, Sov. Phys. JETP 49, 515 (1965).
D. Palumbo, Some Considerations on Closed Configurations of Magnetohydrostatic Equilibrium, Nuovo Cimento 53, 507 (1968).
A. A. Galeev and R. Z. Sagdeev, Nonlinear Plasma Theory , W. A. Benjamin, Inc (1969).
B. D. Fried, C. S. Liu, R. W. Means, and R. Z. Sagdeev, Nonlinear evolution and saturation of an unstable electrostatic wave, UCLA Report No. PPG-93 (1971).
M. B. Levin, M. G. Lyubarsky, I. N. Onishchenko, V. D. Shapiro, and V. I. Shevchenko, Contribution to the Nonlinear Theory of Kinetic Instability of an Electron Beam in Plasma, Sov. Phys. JETP 35, 898 (1972).
B. Coppi, R. Galvão, R. Pelat, M. Rosenbluth, and P. Rutherford, Resistive internal kink modes, Fiz. Plazmy 2, 961 (1976).
R. A. Clemente, Can plasma spin-up in field-reversed configurations be reduced?, Comments Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 11, 269 (1988).
R. L. Miller, M. S. Chu, R. R. Dominguez, and T. Ohkawa, Maximum J tokamak by plasma shaping, Comm. Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 12, 125 (1989).
R. A. Clemente, Some remarks on the two-dimensional Liouville's equation, Int. J. Math. Educ. Sci. Technol. 23, 620 (1992).
H. L. Berk and B. N. Breizman, Enhancement of Particle-Wave Energy Exchange by Resonance Sweeping, Comments Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 17, 129 (1996).
H. L. Berk, B. N. Breizman, and M. Pekker, Nonlinear Theory of Kinetic Instabilities Near Threshold, Plasma Phys. Rep. 23, 778 (1997).
N. Petviachvili, Coherent structures in nonlinear plasma dynamics, PhD thesis, UT Austin (1999).
H. L. Berk's Memorial Resolution, UT Austin (2023).

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