Overview of progress in European medium sized tokamaks towards an integrated plasma-edge/wall solution a

H Meyer, T Eich, M Beurskens, S Coda, A Hakola… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Integrating the plasma core performance with an edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) that leads
to tolerable heat and particle loads on the wall is a major challenge. The new European …

Experimental conditions to suppress edge localised modes by magnetic perturbations in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak

W Suttrop, A Kirk, V Bobkov, M Cavedon… - Nuclear …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Access conditions for full suppression of edge localised modes (ELMs) by magnetic
perturbations (MP) in low density high confinement mode (H-mode) plasmas are studied in …

Experimental studies of high-confinement mode plasma response to non-axisymmetric magnetic perturbations in ASDEX Upgrade

W Suttrop, A Kirk, R Nazikian, N Leuthold… - Plasma Physics and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The interaction of externally applied small non-axisymmetric magnetic perturbations (MP)
with tokamak high-confinement mode (H-mode) plasmas is reviewed and illustrated by …

Turbulence characterization during the suppression of edge-localized modes by magnetic perturbations on ASDEX Upgrade

N Leuthold, W Suttrop, M Willensdorfer… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We study localized edge turbulence in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak that appears if
resonant magnetic perturbations (RMP) are applied to suppress edge localized modes …

[HTML][HTML] Validation of gyrokinetic simulations with measurements of electron temperature fluctuations and density-temperature phase angles on ASDEX Upgrade

SJ Freethy, T Görler, AJ Creely, GD Conway… - Physics of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Measurements of turbulent electron temperature fluctuation amplitudes, δ T e⊥/T e⁠,
frequency spectra, and radial correlation lengths, L r (T e⊥)⁠, have been performed at …

Field-line localized destabilization of ballooning modes in three-dimensional tokamaks

M Willensdorfer, TB Cote, CC Hegna, W Suttrop… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
Field-line localized ballooning modes have been observed at the edge of high confinement
mode plasmas in ASDEX Upgrade with rotating 3D perturbations induced by an externally …

Validation of MARS-F modeling of plasma response to RMPs using internal measurements on DIII-D

X Sun, Y Liu, L Lao, C Paz-Soldan, J Milliano - Physics of Plasmas, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The linear resistive plasma response model is validated against the plasma internal
measurement data from DIII-D edge-localized mode (ELM) control experiments with applied …

Analysis of electron cyclotron emission with extended electron cyclotron forward modeling

SS Denk, R Fischer, HM Smith… - Plasma Physics and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
At the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak the electron temperature (T e) profile is estimated from
electron cyclotron emission (ECE) using radiation transport forward modeling within the …

ECEI characterization of pedestal fluctuations in quiescent H-mode plasmas in DIII-D

G Yu, R Nazikian, Y Zhu, Y Zheng… - Plasma Physics and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Electron cyclotron emission imaging (ECEI) is employed to characterize the magneto
hydraulics dynamics (MHD) fluctuations at the quiescent H-mode pedestals in DIII-D …

Observation of magnetic islands in tokamak plasmas during the suppression of edge-localized modes

M Willensdorfer, V Mitterauer, M Hoelzl, W Suttrop… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
In tokamaks, a leading platform for fusion energy, periodic filamentary plasma eruptions
known as edge-localized modes occur in plasmas with high-energy confinement and steep …