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 …

Experimental drift turbulence and zonal flow studies in magnetically confined plasma
experiments are reviewed. The origins of drift waves, transition to drift turbulence and drift …

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 …

Since the last IAEA Fusion Energy Conference in 2018, significant progress of the
experimental program of HL-2A has been achieved on developing advanced plasma …

Reduction or elimination of edge localized modes (ELMs) while maintaining high
confinement is essential for future fusion devices, eg, the ITER. An ELM-free regime was …

A critical challenge facing the basic long-pulse high-confinement operation scenario (H
mode) for ITER is to control a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instability, known as the edge …

Accurate and efficient plasma models are essential to understand and control experimental
devices. Existing magnetohydrodynamic or kinetic models are nonlinear and …

ABSTRACT A major scientific success story of magnetic fusion research in the past several
decades has been the theoretical development and experimental testing of the process of …

Significant progress was made over the last decade toward quantitative, fundamental
calculations of turbulent ion thermal transport1 resulting from toroidal ion temperature …

The application of static, non-axisymmetric, nonresonant magnetic fields (NRMFs) to high
beta DIII-D plasmas has allowed sustained operation with a quiescent H-mode (QH-mode) …