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 …

Advances in H-mode physics for long-pulse operation on EAST

B Wan, J Li, H Guo, Y Liang, G Xu, L Wang… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Since the 2012 International Atomic Energy Agency Fusion Energy Conference
(IAEA-FEC), significant advances in both physics and technology has been made on the …

Recent progress in understanding the processes underlying the triggering of and energy loss associated with type I ELMs

A Kirk, D Dunai, M Dunne, G Huijsmans… - Nuclear …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The type I ELMy H-mode is the baseline operating scenario for ITER. While it is
known that the type I edge-localized mode (ELM) ultimately results from the peeling …

Promising high-confinement regime for steady-state fusion

GS Xu, QQ Yang, N Yan, YF Wang, XQ Xu, HY Guo… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
A reproducible stationary high-confinement regime with small “edge-localized
modes”(ELMs) has been achieved recently in the Experimental Advanced Superconducting …

Simulations of tokamak boundary plasma turbulence transport in setting the divertor heat flux width

XQ Xu, NM Li, ZY Li, B Chen, TY Xia, TF Tang… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The BOUT++ code has been used to simulate edge plasma electromagnetic (EM)
turbulence and transport, and to study the role of EM turbulence in setting the scrape-off …

Hermes-3: Multi-component plasma simulations with BOUT++

B Dudson, M Kryjak, H Muhammed, P Hill… - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
A new open source tool for fluid simulation of multi-component plasmas is presented, based
on a flexible software design that is applicable to scientific simulations in a wide range of …

Drift reduced Landau fluid model for magnetized plasma turbulence simulations in BOUT++ framework

B Zhu, H Seto, X Xu, M Yagi - Computer Physics Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently the drift-reduced Landau fluid six-field turbulence model within the BOUT++
framework [1] has been upgraded. In particular, this new model employs a new …

Nonlinear fluid simulation of particle and heat fluxes during burst of ELMs on DIII-D with BOUT++ code

TY Xia, XQ Xu - Nuclear Fusion, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In order to study the distribution and evolution of the transient particle and heat fluxes during
edge-localized mode (ELM) bursts, a BOUT++ six-field two-fluid model based on the …

Recent advances in long-pulse high-confinement plasma operations in Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak

HY Guo, J Li, BN Wan, XZ Gong, YF Liang, GS Xu… - Physics of …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
A long-pulse high confinement plasma regime known as H-mode is achieved in the
Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) with a record duration over 30 s …

[HTML][HTML] Global 3D two-fluid simulations of the tokamak edge region: Turbulence, transport, profile evolution, and spontaneous E× B rotation

B Zhu, M Francisquez, BN Rogers - Physics of Plasmas, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We present global two-fluid simulations of L-mode edge tokamak plasma turbulence and
profile evolution including both closed field lines and the scrape-off-layer. We consider a …