Physics of runaway electrons in tokamaks

BN Breizman, P Aleynikov, EM Hollmann… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Of all electrons, runaway electrons have long been recognized in the fusion community as a
distinctive population. They now attract special attention as a part of ITER mission …

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 …

Progress on the application of ELM control schemes to ITER scenarios from the non-active phase to DT operation

A Loarte, G Huijsmans, S Futatani, LR Baylor… - Nuclear …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Progress in the definition of the requirements for edge localized mode (ELM) control and the
application of ELM control methods both for high fusion performance DT operation and non …

Filamentary plasma eruptions and their control on the route to fusion energy

C Ham, A Kirk, S Pamela, H Wilson - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
The tokamak is the most advanced approach to fusion and is approaching operation under
power-plant conditions, promising sustainable, low-emission, baseload power to the grid. As …

[HTML][HTML] ELM divertor peak energy fluence scaling to ITER with data from JET, MAST and ASDEX upgrade

T Eich, B Sieglin, AJ Thornton, M Faitsch, A Kirk… - Nuclear Materials and …, 2017 - Elsevier
A newly established scaling of the ELM energy fluence using dedicated data sets from JET
operation with CFC & ILW plasma facing components (PFCs), ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) …

The JOREK non-linear extended MHD code and applications to large-scale instabilities and their control in magnetically confined fusion plasmas

M Hoelzl, GTA Huijsmans, SJP Pamela… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
JOREK is a massively parallel fully implicit non-linear extended magneto-hydrodynamic
(MHD) code for realistic tokamak X-point plasmas. It has become a widely used versatile …

Simulation of plasma turbulence in scrape-off layer conditions: the GBS code, simulation results and code validation

P Ricci, FD Halpern, S Jolliet, J Loizu… - Plasma Physics and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Based on the drift-reduced Braginskii equations, the Global Braginskii Solver, GBS, is able
to model the scrape-off layer (SOL) plasma turbulence in terms of the interplay between the …

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 …

WEST physics basis

C Bourdelle, JF Artaud, V Basiuk, M Bécoulet… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract With WEST (Tungsten Environment in Steady State Tokamak)(Bucalossi et al 2014
Fusion Eng. Des. 89 907–12), the Tore Supra facility and team expertise (Dumont et al 2014 …

Non-linear magnetohydrodynamic modeling of plasma response to resonant magnetic perturbations

F Orain, M Bécoulet, G Dif-Pradalier, G Huijsmans… - Physics of …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The interaction of static Resonant Magnetic Perturbations (RMPs) with the plasma flows is
modeled in toroidal geometry, using the non-linear resistive MHD code JOREK, which …