Stellarator and tokamak plasmas: a comparison

P Helander, CD Beidler, TM Bird… - Plasma Physics and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
An overview is given of physics differences between stellarators and tokamaks, including
magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium, stability, fast-ion physics, plasma rotation, neoclassical …

Comparison between stellarator and tokamak divertor transport

Y Feng, M Kobayashi, T Lunt… - Plasma physics and …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper compares the essential divertor transport features of the poloidal divertor, which
is well developed for tokamaks, and the non-axisymmetric divertors currently investigated on …

Edge impurity transport study in the stochastic layer of LHD and the scrape-off layer of HL-2A

M Kobayashi, S Morita, CF Dong, ZY Cui… - Nuclear …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Edge impurity transport has been investigated in the stochastic layer of the Large Helical
Device (LHD) and the scrape-off layer (SOL) of the Huan Liuqi-2A (HL-2A) tokamak, as a …

On impurity handling in high performance stellarator/heliotron plasmas

R Burhenn, Y Feng, K Ida, H Maassberg… - Nuclear …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Large Helical Device (LHD) and Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X, under construction)
are experiments specially designed to demonstrate long-pulse (quasi steady state) …

First EMC3‐EIRENE Simulations with Divertor Legs of LHD in Realistic Device Geometry

G Kawamura, Y Feng, M Kobayashi… - … to Plasma Physics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
An extended mesh system for EMC3‐EIRENE has been developed to simulate peripheral
plasma including the ergodic and the divertor leg regions of LHD. Both the open and the …

Detachment stabilization with n/m= 1/1 resonant magnetic perturbation field applied to the stochastic magnetic boundary of the Large Helical Device

M Kobayashi, S Masuzaki, I Yamada, N Tamura… - Physics of …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
It is found that the remnant island structure created by n/m= 1/1 resonant magnetic
perturbation field in the stochastic magnetic boundary of the Large Helical Device (LHD)[A …

Development of net-current free heliotron plasmas in the Large Helical Device

A Komori, H Yamada, S Sakakibara, O Kaneko… - Nuclear …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Remarkable progress in the physical parameters of net-current free plasmas has been made
in the Large Helical Device (LHD) since the last Fusion Energy Conference in Chengdu …

Magnetic stochasticity in magnetically confined fusion plasmas

S Abdullaev - Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma …, 2014 - Springer
The magnetic confinement concept of thermonuclear plasma is one of the areas of
controlled fusion research developing in the past 50 years in a quest for clean and unlimited …

Transport characteristics in the stochastic magnetic boundary of LHD: Magnetic field topology and its impact on divertor physics and impurity transport

M Kobayashi, Y Feng, S Morita… - Fusion Science and …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Transport characteristics of the stochastic magnetic boundary of the Large Helical Device
(LHD) are investigated, based on three-dimensional Monte-Carlo Braginskii-type fluid model …

Full‐torus impurity transport simulation for optimizing plasma discharge operation using a multi‐species impurity powder dropper in the large helical device

M Shoji, G Kawamura, R Smirnov… - … to Plasma Physics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The transport of impurities supplied by a multi‐species impurity powder dropper (IPD) in the
large helical device (LHD) is investigated using a three‐dimensional peripheral plasma fluid …