Mesoscopic transport events and the breakdown of Fick's law for turbulent fluxes

TS Hahm, PH Diamond - Journal of the Korean Physical Society, 2018 - Springer
This paper presents a pedagogical review of the physics of mesoscopic transport events and
their role in the breakdown of Fick's Law for turbulent transport in magnetically confined …

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 …

Finding the Elusive Staircase in Magnetized Plasmas

G Dif-Pradalier, G Hornung, P Ghendrih, Y Sarazin… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
Turbulence in hot magnetized plasmas is shown to generate permeable localized transport
barriers that globally organize into the so-called" E x B staircase"[G. Dif-Pradalier et al …

Transport barrier onset and edge turbulence shortfall in fusion plasmas

G Dif-Pradalier, P Ghendrih, Y Sarazin… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Magnetic confinement fusion offers the promise of sustainable and safe energy production
on Earth. Advanced experimental scenarios exploit the fascinating yet uncommon ability of …

Hysteresis relation between turbulence and temperature modulation during the heat pulse propagation into a magnetic island in DIII-D

K Ida, T Kobayashi, M Ono, TE Evans, GR McKee… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
The hysteresis relation between turbulence and temperature modulation during the heat
pulse propagation into a magnetic island is studied for the first time in toroidal plasmas …

Self-organized criticality and the dynamics of near-marginal turbulent transport in magnetically confined fusion plasmas

R Sanchez, DE Newman - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The high plasma temperatures expected at reactor conditions in magnetic confinement
fusion toroidal devices suggest that near-marginal operation could be a reality in future …

Overview of Large Helical Device experiments of basic plasma physics for solving crucial issues in reaching burning plasma conditions

K Ida, M Yoshinuma, M Kobayashi, T Kobayashi… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, experiments on basic plasma physics issues for solving future problems in fusion
energy have been performed on a Large Helical Device. There are several problems to be …

Overview of recent experimental results from the ADITYA-U tokamak

RL Tanna, T Macwan, J Ghosh, KA Jadeja… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the 2018 IAEA-FEC conference, in addition to expanding the parameter horizons of
the ADITYA-U machine, emphasis has been given to dedicated experiments on inductively …

Explaining cold-pulse dynamics in tokamak plasmas using local turbulent transport models

P Rodriguez-Fernandez, AE White, NT Howard… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
A long-standing enigma in plasma transport has been resolved by modeling of cold-pulse
experiments conducted on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak. Controlled edge cooling of fusion …

Experimental evaluation of avalanche type of electron heat transport in magnetic confinement plasmas

F Kin, K Itoh, T Bando, K Shinohara, N Oyama… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Turbulent transport is undoubtedly important in magnetic confinement plasmas. It has been
reported that a lot of transport dynamics are not satisfying the local diffusive models. Here …