Kunioki Mima

Kunioki Mima (Japanese: 三間圀興, Hepburn: Mima Kunioki, born 17 August 1945) is a Japanese plasma physicist. He is known for his contributions to the theory of turbulent transport in plasmas,[1][2][3] and in particular the derivation of the Hasegawa–Mima equation in 1977,[4] which won him the 2011 Hannes Alfvén Prize.[5]

Kunioki Mima
三間圀興
Born (1945-08-17) 17 August 1945
NationalityJapan
EducationKyoto University (B.S., Ph.D.)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPlasma physics
Thesis (1973)

Early life and career

Mima studied physics at Kyoto University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1968 and a PhD in 1973. He was a post-doctoral student at Hiroshima University until 1975 and then started work at Osaka University, where he became an assistant professor in 1978 and a professor in 1984. From 1995 to 1999, he was director of the Institute of Laser Engineering. There, his work involved laser fusion (experiments with the Gekko XII laser and FIREX program), free electron lasers, relativistic plasmas and laser-plasma interaction.[6]

Honors and awards

Mima is a Fellow of the American Physical Society[7] and a Member of the Physical Society of Japan and the Japan Society of Plasma Science at Nuclear Fusion Research.[6]

He was a co-recipient of the 1993 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research[8] and won the 2007 Edward Teller Award.[9] He was jointly awarded the 2011 Hannes Alfvén Prize (with Akira Hasegawa and Patrick H. Diamond) for "laying the foundations of modern numerical transport simulations and key contributions on self-generated zonal flows and flow shear decorrelation mechanisms which form the basis of modern turbulence in plasmas".[10]

References
  1. Hasegawa, A.; Mima, K. (1978). "Pseudo‐three‐dimensional turbulence in magnetized nonuniform plasma". The Physics of Fluids. 21 (1): 87–92. Bibcode:1978PhFl...21...87H. doi:10.1063/1.862083. ISSN 0031-9171.
  2. Hasegawa, A.; Mima, K. (1978). "Anomalous transport produced by kinetic Alfvén wave turbulence". Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 83 (A3): 1117–1123. Bibcode:1978JGR....83.1117H. doi:10.1029/JA083iA03p01117. ISSN 2156-2202.
  3. Diamond, P. H.; Hasegawa, A.; Mima, K. (2011). "Vorticity dynamics, drift wave turbulence, and zonal flows: a look back and a look ahead" (PDF). Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 53 (12): 124001. Bibcode:2011PPCF...53l4001D. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/53/12/124001. ISSN 0741-3335.
  4. Hasegawa, A.; Mima, K. (1977). "Stationary Spectrum of Strong Turbulence in Magnetized Nonuniform Plasma". Physical Review Letters. 39 (4): 205–208. Bibcode:1977PhRvL..39..205H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.39.205.
  5. Stroth, U; Hidalgo, C (14 November 2011). "38th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 53 (12): 120201. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/53/12/120201. ISSN 0741-3335.
  6. "K. Mima". ieeexplore.ieee.org. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  7. "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  8. "John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research". American Physical Society. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  9. "ANS / Honors and Awards / Recipients / Edward Teller Award". www.ans.org. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  10. "Alfvén Prize | European Physical Society – Plasma Physics Division". Retrieved 14 March 2020.
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