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These computer-generated graphics are visualizations of data from a simulation of plasma turbulence in the Earth's ionosphere. These same physics are also applied by researchers investigating turbulence in the tokamak, a device used in nuclear fusion experiments. Physicist Wendell Horton and Lee Leonard use the Texas Advanced Supercomputing Center's (TACC) Stampede computing system to run their simulations, which produces the data in these visualizations.
Some of the visualizations are also produced with Stampede.Image credit: Greg Foss, Anne Bowen, Greg Abram, Texas Advanced Computing Center
