Filamentary plasma eruptions and their control on the route to fusion energy

C Ham, A Kirk, S Pamela, H Wilson - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
The tokamak is the most advanced approach to fusion and is approaching operation under
power-plant conditions, promising sustainable, low-emission, baseload power to the grid. As …

The JOREK non-linear extended MHD code and applications to large-scale instabilities and their control in magnetically confined fusion plasmas

M Hoelzl, GTA Huijsmans, SJP Pamela… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
JOREK is a massively parallel fully implicit non-linear extended magneto-hydrodynamic
(MHD) code for realistic tokamak X-point plasmas. It has become a widely used versatile …

Pedestal structure, stability and scalings in JET-ILW: the EUROfusion JET-ILW pedestal database

L Frassinetti, S Saarelma, G Verdoolaege… - Nuclear …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The EUROfusion JET-ILW pedestal database is described, with emphasis on three
main issues. First, the technical aspects are introduced, including a description of the data …

Role of the separatrix density in the pedestal performance in deuterium low triangularity JET-ILW plasmas and comparison with JET-C

L Frassinetti, CP Von Thun, B Chapman, A Fil… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A reduction of the pedestal pressure with increasing separatrix density over pedestal density
(ne sep/ne ped) has been observed in JET. The physics behind this correlation is …

Fast dynamic 1D simulation of divertor plasmas with neural PDE surrogates

Y Poels, G Derks, E Westerhof, K Minartz… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Managing divertor plasmas is crucial for operating reactor scale tokamak devices due to
heat and particle flux constraints on the divertor target. Simulation is an important tool to …

Effect of resistivity on the pedestal MHD stability in JET

H Nyström, L Frassinetti, S Saarelma… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The ELM triggering mechanism in tokamaks is not yet fully understood. For example, in the
JET tokamak with ITER-like wall (commonly called JET-ILW), the ELMs are sometimes …

Nonlinear coupling induced toroidal structure of edge localized modes

AF Mink, M Hoelzl, E Wolfrum, F Orain, M Dunne… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Edge localized modes (ELMs) are magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities that cause fast
periodic relaxations of the strong edge pressure gradient in tokamak fusion plasmas. A …

Importance of resistivity on edge-localized mode onset in spherical tokamaks

A Kleiner, NM Ferraro, A Diallo, GP Canal - Nuclear Fusion, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore the impact of realistic plasma resistivity on the linear stability of peeling-
ballooning (PB) modes in tokamak discharges with low-aspect ratio. For this study we …

MHD simulations of small ELMs at low triangularity in ASDEX Upgrade

A Cathey, M Hoelzl, G Harrer, MG Dunne… - Plasma Physics and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The development of small and no-ELM regimes for ITER is a high priority topic due to the
risks associated with type-I ELMs. By considering non-linear extended …

Extended full-MHD simulation of non-linear instabilities in tokamak plasmas

SJP Pamela, A Bhole, GTA Huijsmans, B Nkonga… - Physics of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Non-linear magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations play an essential role in active
research and understanding of tokamak plasmas for the realization of a fusion power plant …