The CRONOS suite of codes for integrated tokamak modelling

JF Artaud, V Basiuk, F Imbeaux, M Schneider… - Nuclear …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
CRONOS is a suite of numerical codes for the predictive/interpretative simulation of a full
tokamak discharge. It integrates, in a modular structure, a 1D transport solver with general …

Magneto-hydrodynamic stability of the H-mode transport barrier as a model for edge localized modes: an overview

HR Wilson, SC Cowley, A Kirk… - Plasma Physics and …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
The progress that has been made in understanding the processes responsible for edge
localized modes is reviewed. Attention is restricted to the role of ideal magneto …

Edge localized modes and the pedestal: A model based on coupled peeling–ballooning modes

PB Snyder, HR Wilson, JR Ferron, LL Lao… - Physics of …, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
The high confinement regime known as H-mode is a promising operational regime for a
tokamak fusion device. H-mode is characterized by the development of a transport barrier …

Plasma confinement and transport

EJ Doyle, WA Houlberg, Y Kamada… - Nuclear …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
The understanding and predictive capability of transport physics and plasma confinement is
reviewed from the perspective of achieving reactor-scale burning plasmas in the ITER …

Overview of the JET preparation for deuterium–tritium operation with the ITER like-wall

E Joffrin, S Abduallev, M Abhangi, P Abreu… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Since 2016, the JET scientific programme is engaged in a multi-campaign effort including
experiments in D, H and T [1], leading to 2020 and the first experiments with 50%/50% D–T …

Development and validation of a predictive model for the pedestal height

PB Snyder, RJ Groebner, AW Leonard… - Physics of …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
, Nucl. Fusion 39, 2137 (1999)] remains an important challenge. While uncertainties remain,
magnetohydrodynamic stability calculations at intermediate wavelength (the “peeling …

Numerical studies of edge localized instabilities in tokamaks

HR Wilson, PB Snyder, GTA Huysmans… - Physics of Plasmas, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
A new computational tool, edge localized instabilities in tokamaks equilibria ELITE, has
been developed to help our understanding of short wavelength instabilities close to the …

The JOREK non-linear extended MHD code and applications to large-scale instabilities and their control in magnetically confined fusion plasmas

M Hoelzl, GTA Huijsmans, SJP Pamela… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
JOREK is a massively parallel fully implicit non-linear extended magneto-hydrodynamic
(MHD) code for realistic tokamak X-point plasmas. It has become a widely used versatile …

Overview of initial negative triangularity plasma studies on the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak

T Happel, T Pütterich, D Told, M Dunne… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
An overview of results of negative triangularity (NT) studies from the ASDEX Upgrade
tokamak (AUG) is given. Moderate values of the triangularity in the range of δ average≈ …

Pedestal stability comparison and ITER pedestal prediction

PB Snyder, N Aiba, M Beurskens, RJ Groebner… - Nuclear …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
The pressure at the top of the edge transport barrier (or'pedestal height') strongly impacts
fusion performance, while large edge localized modes (ELMs), driven by the free energy in …