A brief history of negative triangularity tokamak plasmas

A Marinoni, O Sauter, S Coda - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2021 - Springer
This review is devoted to tokamak plasmas with a cross sectional shape featuring negative
triangularity, which appear to hold great promise as a candidate reactor configuration owing …

Steady-state tokamak research: Core physics

M Kikuchi, M Azumi - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2012 - APS
Tokamaks have demonstrated excellent plasma confinement capability because of their
symmetry but has an intrinsic drawback because of their pulsed inductive operation. Efforts …

Achievement of reactor-relevant performance in negative triangularity shape in the DIII-D tokamak

ME Austin, A Marinoni, ML Walker, MW Brookman… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Plasma discharges with a negative triangularity (δ=-0.4) shape have been created in the DIII-
D tokamak with a significant normalized beta (β N= 2.7) and confinement characteristic of …

Ballooning instability preventing the H-mode access in plasmas with negative triangularity shape on the DIII–D tokamak

S Saarelma, ME Austin, M Knolker… - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Infinite toroidal mode number (n=∞) ballooning mode analysis of negative triangularity
discharges on DIII–D shows that the access to 2 nd stability becomes strongly restricted …

Diverted negative triangularity plasmas on DIII-D: the benefit of high confinement without the liability of an edge pedestal

A Marinoni, ME Austin, AW Hyatt, S Saarelma… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Diverted discharges at negative triangularity on the DIII-D tokamak sustain normalized
confinement and pressure levels typical of standard H-mode scenarios (H 98y2≃ 1, β N≃ 3) …

[HTML][HTML] H-mode grade confinement in L-mode edge plasmas at negative triangularity on DIII-D

A Marinoni, ME Austin, AW Hyatt, ML Walker… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Plasmas with a negative triangularity shape have been created on the DIII-D tokamak that,
despite maintaining standard L-mode edge radial profiles, reach volume averaged pressure …

Enhanced confinement in diverted negative-triangularity L-mode plasmas in TCV

S Coda, A Merle, O Sauter, L Porte… - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The favorable confinement properties of negative-triangularity (NT) tokamak configurations
were discovered in the TCV tokamak in the late 1990s and were documented over the two …

The negative triangularity tokamak: stability limits and prospects as a fusion energy system

SY Medvedev, M Kikuchi, L Villard, T Takizuka… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The paper discusses edge stability, beta limits and power handling issues for negative
triangularity tokamaks. The edge magnetohydrodynamic stability is the most crucial item for …

The effect of triangularity on fluctuations in a tokamak plasma

M Fontana, L Porte, S Coda, O Sauter… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The effects of plasma shaping, in particular triangularity (δ), on temperature fluctuations in
the tokamak à configuration variable have been studied using the correlation electron …

Nonlocal effects in negative triangularity TCV plasmas

G Merlo, Z Huang, C Marini, S Brunner… - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Global gradient driven gyrokinetic simulations performed with the Gyrokinetic
Electromagnetic Numerical Experiment (GENE) code are used to investigate Tokamak à …