Weikang Tang
Postdoctoral Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
Garching bei München, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolWeikang Tang is a postdoctoral researcher with 8 years' experience modeling MHD instabilities and mitigation strategies in tokamak plasmas, currently at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. He develops and scales massively parallel simulation codes (finite element, finite difference, and particle-in-cell methods) and has applied extended MHD models with impurity atomic physics to realistic shattered pellet injection scenarios in ASDEX Upgrade. His work bridges theory and experiment through synthetic diagnostics and careful validation, and he has implemented sonic-level toroidal flow physics into the gyrokinetic PIC code GEM. Based in Garching, Germany, he combines deep numerical methods expertise with hands-on visualization and Python post-processing to extract physics from large datasets. Colleagues describe him as a coder-researcher who deliberately moves between high-performance computation and experimentally relevant modeling to advance fusion mitigation strategies.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Plasma Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Plasma Physics at Dalian University of Technology
Chinese, English, German
Github Skills (2)
reader5
mesh4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
victowne/TM
Apr 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:27 commits, 37 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 7 months
victowne/equ
Oct 2019 - Oct 2022
G-eqdsk file reader & mesh maker for finite element method
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 34 pushes in 3 years
makermeshfile-readermethodfinite-element-method
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