George R. Tynan

George R. Tynan

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego

George R. Tynan received his Ph.D. in 1991 from the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He then spent several years studying the effect of sheared flows on plasma turbulence on experiments located in the Federal Republic of Germany and at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. He then worked in industry developing plasma sources for use in investigating the creation of nano-meter scale semiconductor circuits, and joined the UCSD faculty in 1999. He has published extensively on turbulent transport in magnetically confined fusion plasmas, plasma-material interactions, and basic plasma physics.

Articles by: George R. Tynan

A photo of an engineer working in the target chamber of the National Ignition Facility

Nuclear fusion could be the clean energy of the future — but these 'tough' challenges stand in the way

By George R. Tynan, Farhat Beg published

Even once researchers can reliably get more power out of a fusion reaction than they put in, they'll still need to overcome engineering challenges to scale up fusion energy.