An experimental and computational study of tokamak plasma turbulence

A Iantchenko - 2023 - infoscience.epfl.ch
Turbulence driven by small-scale instabilities results in strong heat and particle transport,
which significantly shortens the confinement time and prevents the formation of a self …

Comparative Study of Boris and He-VPA for a Toroidally Rippled Tokamak

S Khalid, A Zafar, M Khan, M Kamran, M Ikram - Journal of Fusion Energy, 2021 - Springer
Numerical schemes such as Boris solver and volume preserving algorithm (VPA) enable
efficient calculations of plasma particle trajectories under the influence of electromagnetic …

The role of fast ions in stabilising the ion temperature gradient mode

A Iantchenko - arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.03587, 2017 - arxiv.org
Turbulence driven by small scale instabilities causes large heat and particle transport and is
a major limiting factor of current fusion devices. Above a critical value, the ion temperature …

Radially global neoclassical transport in tokamak pedestals

S Buller - 2017 - search.proquest.com
Nuclear fusion has the potential to become a sustainable energy sourcein the foreseeable
future. The most developed system for fusion powerproduction is the tokamak, which …