Tokamaks have demonstrated excellent plasma confinement capability because of their
symmetry but has an intrinsic drawback because of their pulsed inductive operation. Efforts …

Abstract Small three-dimensional (3D) magnetic field perturbations have many interesting
and possibly useful effects on tokamak and quasi-symmetric stellarator plasmas. Plasma …

Influence of toroidal equilibrium plasma rotation on m/n= 2/1 resistive tearing modes is
studied numerically using a 3D toroidal MHD code (CLT). It is found that the toroidal rotation …

Bulk ion toroidal rotation plays a critical role in controlling microturbulence and MHD stability
as well as yielding important insight into angular momentum transport and the investigation …

The coupling of multiple magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes can lead to mode locking and
major disruption in tokamak plasmas. In the J-TEXT tokamak, the coupling between two …

The scaling of the reconnection rate during (fast) Hall magnetic reconnection in the
presence of an oppositely directed bulk shear flow parallel to the reconnecting magnetic …

Optimal error field correction (EFC) is thought to be achieved when coupling to the least-
stable “dominant” mode of the plasma is nulled at each toroidal mode number (n). The limit …

The effects of flow shear on the stability of a (2, 1) tearing mode are examined using
numerical and analytic studies on a number of model systems. For a cylindrical reduced …

Significant progress has been made in interpreting the effects of non-axisymmetric “error”
fields on a plasma through ideal MHD stability and a dominant “least stable” ideal mode …

The purpose of this monograph is to provide an introduction to modern tokamak physics, as
an extension of our review paper “Steady State Tokamak Research—Core Physics” …