Internal transport barrier in tokamak and helical plasmas

K Ida, T Fujita - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The differences and similarities between the internal transport barriers (ITBs) of tokamak and
helical plasmas are reviewed. By comparing the characteristics of the ITBs in tokamak and …

Controlling sawtooth oscillations in tokamak plasmas

IT Chapman - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The sawtooth instability in tokamak plasmas results in a periodic reorganization of the core
plasma. A typical sawtooth cycle consists of a quiescent period, during which the plasma …

Power and particle control

A Loarte, B Lipschultz, AS Kukushkin… - Nuclear …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Progress, since the ITER Physics Basis publication (ITER Physics Basis Editors et al 1999
Nucl. Fusion 39 2137–2664), in understanding the processes that will determine the …

Heating and current drive by electron cyclotron waves

R Prater - Physics of plasmas, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
The physics model of electron cyclotron heating (ECH) and current drive (ECCD) is
becoming well validated through systematic comparisons of theory and experiment. This …

Theoretical description of heavy impurity transport and its application to the modelling of tungsten in JET and ASDEX upgrade

FJ Casson, C Angioni, EA Belli, R Bilato… - Plasma Physics and …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The effects of poloidal asymmetries and heated minority species are shown to be necessary
to accurately describe heavy impurity transport in present experiments in JET and ASDEX …

Tungsten as first wall material in fusion devices

M Kaufmann, R Neu - Fusion Engineering and Design, 2007 - Elsevier
The observation in JET of co-deposition of tritium with carbon has led to a broad discussion
on the replacement of graphite by a high-Z material for the first wall coverage. Moreover, due …

Overview on plasma operation with a full tungsten wall in ASDEX Upgrade

R Neu, A Kallenbach, M Balden, V Bobkov… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2013 - Elsevier
Operation with all tungsten plasma facing components has become routine in ASDEX
Upgrade. The conditioning of the device is strongly simplified and short glow discharges are …

Plasma wall interaction and its implication in an all tungsten divertor tokamak

R Neu, M Balden, V Bobkov, R Dux… - Plasma Physics and …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
ASDEX Upgrade has recently finished its transition towards an all-W divertor tokamak, by
the exchange of the last remaining graphite tiles to W-coated ones. The plasma start-up was …

Analysis and expansion of the quasi-continuous exhaust (QCE) regime in ASDEX Upgrade

M Faitsch, T Eich, GF Harrer, E Wolfrum, D Brida… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The quasi-continuous exhaust (QCE) regime, formerly known as either type-II ELM or small
ELM regime is studied in ASDEX Upgrade. The regime is a natural type-I ELM-free H-mode …

Tokamak operation with high-Z plasma facing components

A Kallenbach, R Neu, R Dux… - Plasma physics and …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
Plasma operation with high-Z plasma facing components is investigated with regard to
sputtering, core impurity contamination and scenario restrictions. A simple model based on …