Plasma-material interactions in current tokamaks and their implications for next step fusion reactors

G Federici, CH Skinner, JN Brooks, JP Coad… - Nuclear …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
The major increase in discharge duration and plasma energy in a next step DT fusion
reactor will give rise to important plasma-material effects that will critically influence its …

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 …

Edge-localized-modes in tokamaks

AW Leonard - Physics of Plasmas, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Edge-localized-modes (ELMs) are a ubiquitous feature of H-mode in tokamaks. When
gradients in the H-mode transport barrier grow to exceed the MHD stability limit the ELM …

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 …

Plasma detachment in divertor tokamaks

AW Leonard - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Observations of divertor plasma detachment in tokamaks are reviewed. Plasma detachment
is characterized in terms of transport and dissipation of power, momentum and particle flux …

Overview of initial negative triangularity plasma studies on the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak

T Happel, T Pütterich, D Told, M Dunne… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
An overview of results of negative triangularity (NT) studies from the ASDEX Upgrade
tokamak (AUG) is given. Moderate values of the triangularity in the range of δ average≈ …

Pellet injection experiments and modelling

B Pégourié - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
During the last decade, significant progress has been made in the field of pellet injection
with (1) the identification of the drift of the deposited material in the inhomogeneous …

[HTML][HTML] 20 years of research on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak

M Greenwald, A Bader, S Baek, M Bakhtiari… - Physics of …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The object of this review is to summarize the achievements of research on the Alcator C-Mod
tokamak [Hutchinson et al., Phys. Plasmas 1, 1511 (1994) and Marmar, Fusion Sci. Technol …

Effect of island overlap on edge localized mode suppression by resonant magnetic perturbations in DIII-D

ME Fenstermacher, TE Evans, TH Osborne… - Physics of …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
ME Fenstermacher, TE Evans, TH Osborne, MJ Schaffer, MP Aldan, JS deGrassie, P. Gohil,
I. Joseph, RA Moyer, PB Snyder, RJ Groebner, M. Jakubowski, AW Leonard, O. Schmitz, the …

Overview of recent results from the ST40 compact high-field spherical tokamak

SAM McNamara, A Alieva, MSA Tzanis, O Asunta… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
ST40 is a compact, high-field (BT0≤ 2.1 T) spherical tokamak (ST) with a mission to expand
the physics and technology basis for the ST route to commercial fusion. The ST40 research …