Elements of H-mode pedestal structure

RJ Groebner, S Saarelma - Plasma Physics and Controlled …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reviews current understanding of key physics elements that control the H-mode
pedestal structure, which exists at the boundary of magnetically confined plasmas. The …

Filamentary plasma eruptions and their control on the route to fusion energy

C Ham, A Kirk, S Pamela, H Wilson - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
The tokamak is the most advanced approach to fusion and is approaching operation under
power-plant conditions, promising sustainable, low-emission, baseload power to the grid. As …

Self-consistent core-pedestal transport simulations with neural network accelerated models

O Meneghini, SP Smith, PB Snyder, GM Staebler… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Fusion whole device modeling simulations require comprehensive models that are
simultaneously physically accurate, fast, robust, and predictive. In this paper we describe the …

ADX: a high field, high power density, advanced divertor and RF tokamak

B LaBombard, E Marmar, J Irby, JL Terry… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center and collaborators are proposing a high-
performance Advanced Divertor and RF tokamak eXperiment (ADX)—a tokamak specifically …

High fusion performance in Super H-mode experiments on Alcator C-Mod and DIII-D

PB Snyder, JW Hughes, TH Osborne… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The'Super H-Mode'regime is predicted to enable pedestal height and fusion
performance substantially higher than standard H-Mode operation. This regime exists due to …

The core–edge integrated neon-seeded scenario in deuterium–tritium at JET

C Giroud, IS Carvalho, S Brezinsek, A Huber… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reports the first experiment carried out in deuterium–tritium addressing the
integration of a radiative divertor for heat-load control with good confinement. Neon seeding …

Access to pedestal pressure relevant to burning plasmas on the high magnetic field tokamak Alcator C-Mod

JW Hughes, PB Snyder, ML Reinke… - Nuclear …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Experiments on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak have utilized reactor-relevant magnetic fields to
sustain substantially higher pedestal pressure than in other devices and allow close …

Grassy-ELM regime with edge resonant magnetic perturbations in fully noninductive plasmas in the DIII-D tokamaka

R Nazikian, CC Petty, A Bortolon, X Chen… - Nuclear …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Resonant magnetic perturbations (n= 3 RMPs) are used to suppress large amplitude ELMs
and mitigate naturally occurring'grassy'-ELMs in DIII-D plasmas relevant to the ITER steady …

On the stability and stationarity of the super H-mode combined with an ion transport barrier in the core

M Knolker, TE Evans, PB Snyder… - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The Super H-mode, a regime with high pedestal pressure and stored energy, is explored on
DIII-D and combined with an ion transport barrier in the plasma core to increase …

[HTML][HTML] The quiescent H-mode regime for high performance edge localized mode-stable operation in future burning plasmas

AM Garofalo, KH Burrell, D Eldon, BA Grierson… - Physics of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
For the first time, DIII-D experiments have achieved stationary quiescent H-mode (QH-mode)
operation for many energy confinement times at simultaneous ITER-relevant values of beta …