Resonant magnetic perturbations of edge-plasmas in toroidal confinement devices

TE Evans - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Controlling the boundary layer in fusion-grade, high-performance, plasma discharges is
essential for the successful development of toroidal magnetic confinement power generating …

Computational challenges in magnetic-confinement fusion physics

A Fasoli, S Brunner, WA Cooper, JP Graves, P Ricci… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Magnetic-fusion plasmas are complex self-organized systems with an extremely wide range
of spatial and temporal scales, from the electron-orbit scales (∼ 10− 11 s,∼ 10− 5 m) to the …

Nonlinear transition from mitigation to suppression of the edge localized mode with resonant magnetic perturbations in the EAST tokamak

Y Sun, Y Liang, YQ Liu, S Gu, X Yang, W Guo, T Shi… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Evidence of a nonlinear transition from mitigation to suppression of the edge localized mode
(ELM) by using resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs) in the EAST tokamak is presented …

ELM control with RMP: plasma response models and the role of edge peeling response

Y Liu, CJ Ham, A Kirk, L Li, A Loarte… - Plasma Physics and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Resonant magnetic perturbations (RMP) have extensively been demonstrated as a
plausible technique for mitigating or suppressing large edge localized modes (ELMs) …

Edge localized mode control using n= 1 resonant magnetic perturbation in the EAST tokamak

Y Sun, M Jia, Q Zang, L Wang, Y Liang, YQ Liu… - Nuclear …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
A set of in-vessel resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) coil has been recently installed in
EAST. It can generate a range of spectrum, and there is a relatively large window for edge …

Toroidal modelling of resonant magnetic perturbations response in ASDEX-Upgrade: coupling between field pitch aligned response and kink amplification

DA Ryan, YQ Liu, A Kirk, W Suttrop… - Plasma Physics and …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Using the MARS-F code (Liu et al 2000 Phys. Plasmas 7 3681), the single fluid resistive
MHD plasma response to applied n= 2 resonant magnetic perturbations is computed, for a …

Linear and nonlinear benchmarks between the CLT code and the M3D-C1 code for the 2/1 resistive tearing mode and the 1/1 resistive kink mode

W Zhang, SC Jardin, ZW Ma, A Kleiner… - Computer Physics …, 2021 - Elsevier
The linear and nonlinear benchmarks between the CLT code and the M3D-C1 code for the
2/1 resistive tearing mode and the 1/1 resistive kink mode are presented. CLT is an explicit …

Modeling of non-axisymmetric magnetic perturbations in tokamaks

Y Sun, Y Liang, J Qian, B Shen… - Plasma Physics and …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
A numerical model to evaluate the effects of the non-axisymmetric magnetic perturbations on
magnetic topology and magnetic field ripple in tokamaks is presented in this paper. It is …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetic control of magnetohydrodynamic instabilities in tokamaks

EJ Strait - Physics of Plasmas, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Externally applied, non-axisymmetric magnetic fields form the basis of several relatively
simple and direct methods to control magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities in a …

Toroidal modelling of RMP response in ASDEX Upgrade: coil phase scan, q95 dependence, and toroidal torques

Y Liu, D Ryan, A Kirk, L Li, W Suttrop, M Dunne… - Nuclear …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The plasma response to the vacuum resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) fields, produced
by the ELM control coils in ASDEX Upgrade experiments, is computationally modelled using …