Stabilization of the external kink and the resistive wall mode

MS Chu, M Okabayashi - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The pursuit of steady-state economic production of thermonuclear fusion energy has led to
research on the stabilization of the external kink and the resistive wall mode. Advances in …

Overview and summary

M Shimada, DJ Campbell, V Mukhovatov… - Nuclear …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
The'Progress in the ITER Physics Basis'(PIPB) document is an update of the'ITER Physics
Basis'(IPB), which was published in 1999 [1]. The IPB provided methodologies for projecting …

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 …

Controlling a new plasma regime

M Lennholm, S Aleiferis, S Bakes… - Philosophical …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Success of the UK's Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) programme requires
a robust plasma control system. This system has to guide the plasma from initiation to the …

[HTML][HTML] An upgrade of the magnetic diagnostic system of the DIII-D tokamak for non-axisymmetric measurements

JD King, EJ Strait, RL Boivin, D Taussig… - Review of Scientific …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The DIII-D tokamak magnetic diagnostic system [EJ Strait, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77, 023502
(2006)] has been upgraded to significantly expand the measurement of the plasma …

Design of passive and structural conductors for tokamaks using thin-wall eddy current modeling

AF Battey, C Hansen, D Garnier, D Weisberg… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A new three-dimensional electromagnetic modeling tool (ThinCurr) has been developed
using the existing PSI-Tet finite-element code in support of conducting structure design work …

Simulation of fusion plasmas: Current status and future direction

DA Batchelor, M Beck, A Becoulet… - Plasma Science and …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract I. Introduction (Z. Lin, GY Fu, JQ Dong) II. Role of theory and simulation in fusion
sciences 1. The Impact of theory and simulation on tokomak experiments (HR Wilson, TS …

[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 …

Fast-ion redistribution and loss due to edge perturbations in the ASDEX Upgrade, DIII-D and KSTAR tokamaks

M Garcia-Munoz, S Äkäslompolo, O Asunta… - Nuclear …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The impact of edge localized modes (ELMs) and externally applied resonant and non-
resonant magnetic perturbations (MPs) on fast-ion confinement/transport have been …

Detection of disruptions in the high-β spherical torus NSTX

SP Gerhardt, DS Darrow, RE Bell, BP LeBlanc… - Nuclear …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper describes the prediction of disruptions based on diagnostic data in the high-β
spherical torus NSTX (Ono et al 2000 Nucl. Fusion 40 557). The disruptive threshold values …