Density limits in toroidal plasmas

M Greenwald - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
In addition to the operational limits imposed by MHD stability on plasma current and
pressure, an independent limit on plasma density is observed in confined toroidal plasmas …

Internal transport barriers in tokamak plasmas

RC Wolf - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
Internal transport barriers in tokamak plasmas are explored in order to improve confinement
and stability beyond the reference scenario, used for the ITER extrapolation, and to achieve …

Plasma confinement and transport

EJ Doyle, WA Houlberg, Y Kamada… - Nuclear …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
The understanding and predictive capability of transport physics and plasma confinement is
reviewed from the perspective of achieving reactor-scale burning plasmas in the ITER …

Survey of disruption causes at JET

PC De Vries, MF Johnson, B Alper, P Buratti… - Nuclear …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
A survey has been carried out into the causes of all 2309 disruptions over the last decade of
JET operations. The aim of this survey was to obtain a complete picture of all possible …

ELM control strategies and tools: status and potential for ITER

PT Lang, A Loarte, G Saibene, LR Baylor… - Nuclear …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Operating ITER in the reference inductive scenario at the design values of I p= 15 MA and Q
DT= 10 requires the achievement of good H-mode confinement that relies on the presence …

Isotope physics of heat and particle transport with tritium in JET-ILW type-I ELMy H-mode plasmas

PA Schneider, C Angioni, F Auriemma… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
As part the DTE2 campaign in the JET tokamak, we conducted a parameter scan in T and
DT complementing existing pulses in H and D. For the different main ion masses, type-I …

Experimental conditions to suppress edge localised modes by magnetic perturbations in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak

W Suttrop, A Kirk, V Bobkov, M Cavedon… - Nuclear …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Access conditions for full suppression of edge localised modes (ELMs) by magnetic
perturbations (MP) in low density high confinement mode (H-mode) plasmas are studied in …

Progress in quantifying the edge physics of the H mode regime in DIII-D

RJ Groebner, DR Baker, KH Burrell… - Nuclear …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
Edge conditions in DIII-D are being quantified in order to provide insight into the physics of
the H mode regime. Several studies show that electron temperature is not the key parameter …

The physics of large and small edge localized modes

W Suttrop - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
The operational boundaries for the occurrence of various types of edge localized mode
(ELM) instability in high-confinement-mode (H-mode) fusion plasmas are reviewed. The …

Drift wave versus interchange turbulence in tokamak geometry: Linear versus nonlinear mode structure

BD Scott - Physics of Plasmas, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
The competition between drift wave and interchange physics in general E-cross-B drift
turbulence is studied with computations in three-dimensional tokamak flux tube geometry …