[HTML][HTML] Invited Review Article: Gas puff imaging diagnostics of edge plasma turbulence in magnetic fusion devices

SJ Zweben, JL Terry, DP Stotler… - Review of Scientific …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Gas puff imaging (GPI) is a diagnostic of plasma turbulence which uses a puff of neutral gas
at the plasma edge to increase the local visible light emission for improved space-time …

Numerical simulations of blobs with ion dynamics

AH Nielsen, JJ Rasmussen, J Madsen… - Plasma Physics and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The transport of particles and energy into the scrape-off layer (SOL) region at the outboard
midplane of medium-sized tokamaks, operating in low confinement mode, is investigated by …

Intermittent electron density and temperature fluctuations and associated fluxes in the Alcator C-Mod scrape-off layer

R Kube, OE Garcia, A Theodorsen… - Plasma Physics and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Alcator C-Mod mirror Langmuir probe system has been used to sample data
time series of fluctuating plasma parameters in the outboard mid-plane far scrape-off layer …

[HTML][HTML] Stochastic modeling of blob-like plasma filaments in the scrape-off layer: Theoretical foundation

JM Losada, A Theodorsen, OE Garcia - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A stochastic model for a superposition of uncorrelated pulses with a random distribution of
amplitudes, sizes, and velocities is presented. The pulses are assumed to move radially with …

Comparison between mirror Langmuir probe and gas-puff imaging measurements of intermittent fluctuations in the Alcator C-Mod scrape-off layer

R Kube, A Theodorsen, OE Garcia… - Journal of Plasma …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Statistical properties of the scrape-off layer plasma fluctuations are studied in ohmically
heated plasmas in the Alcator C-Mod tokamak. For the first time, plasma fluctuations as well …

Impact of edge biasing on the cross-field transport and power spectra

V Shankar, N Bisai, S Raj, A Sen - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The impact of positive and negative edge biasing on the interchange plasma turbulence in
the edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) regions of a tokamak is assessed by comparing …

A universal mechanism for plasma blob formation

N Bisai, S Banerjee, A Sen - Physics of Plasmas, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The formation of a density blob in the boundary region of a tokamak plasma is widely
believed to be due to the presence of poloidal velocity shear that differentially breaks off a …

Experimental validation of universal plasma blob formation mechanism

N Bisai, S Banerjee, SJ Zweben, A Sen - Nuclear Fusion, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Anomalous plasma transport in the boundary region of a tokamak plasma is commonly
associated with the formation and evolution of coherent density structures known as blobs …

Blob properties in full-turbulence simulations of the TCV scrape-off layer

F Nespoli, I Furno, B Labit, P Ricci… - Plasma Physics and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
To investigate blob properties in the tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL), we perform dedicated
numerical nonlinear simulations of plasma turbulence in the SOL of a TCV discharge using …

Strongly intermittent far scrape-off layer fluctuations in Alcator C-Mod plasmas close to the empirical discharge density limit

S Ahmed, OE Garcia, AQ Kuang… - Plasma Physics and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Intermittent plasma fluctuations in the boundary region of the Alcator C-Mod device were
comprehensively investigated using data time-series from gas puff imaging and mirror …