Geodesic acoustic modes in magnetic confinement devices

GD Conway, AI Smolyakov, T Ido - Nuclear Fusion, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) are ubiquitous oscillatory flow phenomena observed in
toroidal magnetic confinement fusion plasmas, such as tokamaks and stellarators. They are …

The features of the global GAM in OH and ECRH plasmas in the T-10 tokamak

AV Melnikov, LG Eliseev, SV Perfilov… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Zonal flows and their high-frequency counterpart, the geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) are
considered as a possible mechanism of the plasma turbulence self-regulation. In the T-10 …

Geodesic oscillations and the weakly coherent mode in the I-mode of ASDEX Upgrade

P Manz, P Lauber, VE Nikolaeva, T Happel… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Density fluctuations in I-mode discharges in ASDEX Upgrade are studied. The I-mode
specific weakly coherent mode (WCM) appears at the transition from the L to I-mode. The …

Study of interactions between GAMs and broadband turbulence in the T-10 tokamak

AV Melnikov, LG Eliseev, SE Lysenko… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
New findings in study of geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) on the T-10 tokamak since the
last IAEA FEC 2014 are described. The broadband fluctuations of potential φ and electron …

Electromagnetic characteristics of geodesic acoustic mode in the COMPASS tokamak

J Seidl, J Krbec, M Hron, J Adamek, C Hidalgo… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Axisymmetric geodesic acoustic mode (GAM) oscillations of the magnetic field, plasma
potential and electron temperature have been identified on the COMPASS tokamak. This …

Study of Geodesic Acoustic and Alfvén Modes in Toroidal Fusion Devices (Brief Review)

AV Melnikov, VA Vershkov, SA Grashin, MA Drabinskiy… - JETP Letters, 2022 - Springer
Geodesic acoustic modes, Alfvén eigenmodes, stationary and oscillating components of the
electric field, and their relations to plasma confinement have been studied. Theoretical …

The science program of the TCV tokamak: exploring fusion reactor and power plant concepts

S Coda, TCV team - Nuclear Fusion, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
TCV is acquiring a new 1 MW neutral beam and 2 MW additional third-harmonic electron
cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) to expand its operational range. Its existing shaping …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental observation of the geodesic acoustic frequency limit for the NBI-driven Alfvén eigenmodes in TJ-II

LG Eliseev, AV Melnikov, E Ascasibar, A Cappa… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We study Alfvén eigenmodes (AEs) in the TJ-II heliac in hydrogen plasmas heated by
hydrogen co-field neutral beam injector. Taking advantage of the unique TJ-II flexibility in a …

An arbitrary wavelength solver for global gyrokinetic simulations. Application to the study of fine radial structures on microturbulence due to non-adiabatic passing …

J Dominski, BF McMillan, S Brunner, G Merlo… - Physics of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The influence of the fine layers of the non-adiabatic passing electron response on
electrostatic turbulent transport, previously studied systematically in flux tube geometry …

Shaping effects on the geodesic acoustic mode in tokamaks

Z Chen, H Ren - Nuclear Fusion, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The geodesic acoustic mode (GAM) is investigated with gyro-kinetic equations in Miller local
equilibrium model for shaped tokamak plasmas with an arbitrary elongation κ and a finite …