Progress in the development and understanding of a high poloidal-beta tokamak operating scenario for an attractive fusion pilot plant

S Ding, AM Garofalo - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2022 - Springer
The high poloidal-beta (β P) regime was first proposed as a high bootstrap current scenario
for a steady-state fusion pilot plant (FPP) in the 1990s (Kikuchi in Nucl Fusion 30: 265 …

Thermal confinement and transport in spherical tokamaks: a review

SM Kaye, JW Connor, CM Roach - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we review the thermal plasma confinement and transport properties observed
and predicted in low aspect ratio tokamaks, or spherical tokamaks (STs), which can depart …

Integrated modeling applications for tokamak experiments with OMFIT

O Meneghini, SP Smith, LL Lao, O Izacard… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
One modeling framework for integrated tasks (OMFIT) is a comprehensive integrated
modeling framework which has been developed to enable physics codes to interact in …

The tokamak Monte Carlo fast ion module NUBEAM in the National Transport Code Collaboration library

A Pankin, D McCune, R Andre, G Bateman… - Computer Physics …, 2004 - Elsevier
The NUBEAM module is a comprehensive computational model for Neutral Beam Injection
(NBI) in tokamaks. It is used to compute power deposition, driven current, momentum …

The behaviour of fast ions in tokamak experiments

WW Heidbrink, GJ Sadler - Nuclear Fusion, 1994 - iopscience.iop.org
Fast ions with energies significantly larger than the bulk ion temperature are used to heat
most tokamak plasmas. Fast ion populations created by fusion reactions, by neutral beam …

New techniques for calculating heat and particle source rates due to neutral beam injection in axisymmetric tokamaks

RJ Goldston, DC McCune, HH Towner, SL Davis… - Journal of computational …, 1981 - Elsevier
A set of numerical techniques for calculating heat and particle source rates due to neutral
beam injection in axisymmetric tokamaks is described. While these techniques consume a …

Measurements of microturbulence in tokamaks and comparisons with theories of turbulence and anomalous transport

PC Liewer - Nuclear Fusion, 1985 - iopscience.iop.org
A review of measurements of microscopic fluctuations and theories of turbulence and
anomalous transport for tokamaks is given, and some comparisons between theory and …

Overview of EAST experiments on the development of high-performance steady-state scenario

BN Wan, YF Liang, XZ Gong, JG Li, N Xiang… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The EAST research program aims to demonstrate steady-state long-pulse advanced high-
performance H-mode operations with ITER-like poloidal configuration and RF-dominated …

Fusion nuclear science facilities and pilot plants based on the spherical tokamak

JE Menard, T Brown, L El-Guebaly, M Boyer… - Nuclear …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
A fusion nuclear science facility (FNSF) could play an important role in the development of
fusion energy by providing the nuclear environment needed to develop fusion materials and …

[HTML][HTML] Physics and applications of three-ion ICRF scenarios for fusion research

YO Kazakov, J Ongena, JC Wright, SJ Wukitch… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
This paper summarizes the physical principles behind the novel three-ion scenarios using
radio frequency waves in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF). We discuss how to …