Resonant magnetic perturbations of edge-plasmas in toroidal confinement devices

TE Evans - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Controlling the boundary layer in fusion-grade, high-performance, plasma discharges is
essential for the successful development of toroidal magnetic confinement power generating …

Edge-localized-modes in tokamaks

AW Leonard - Physics of Plasmas, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Edge-localized-modes (ELMs) are a ubiquitous feature of H-mode in tokamaks. When
gradients in the H-mode transport barrier grow to exceed the MHD stability limit the ELM …

ELM control strategies and tools: status and potential for ITER

PT Lang, A Loarte, G Saibene, LR Baylor… - Nuclear …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Operating ITER in the reference inductive scenario at the design values of I p= 15 MA and Q
DT= 10 requires the achievement of good H-mode confinement that relies on the presence …

Principal physics developments evaluated in the ITER design review

RJ Hawryluk, DJ Campbell, G Janeschitz… - Nuclear …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
As part of the ITER Design Review and in response to the issues identified by the Science
and Technology Advisory Committee, the ITER physics requirements were reviewed and as …

Modelling of plasma response to resonant magnetic perturbation fields in MAST and ITER

Y Liu, A Kirk, Y Gribov, MP Gryaznevich… - Nuclear …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) fields, including the plasma response, are
computed within a linear, full toroidal, single-fluid resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) …

Full toroidal plasma response to externally applied nonaxisymmetric magnetic fields

Y Liu, A Kirk, E Nardon - Physics of Plasmas, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The plasma response to resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) and nonresonant
perturbation fields is computed within a linear, full toroidal, single-fluid resistive …

Non-linear magnetohydrodynamic modeling of plasma response to resonant magnetic perturbations

F Orain, M Bécoulet, G Dif-Pradalier, G Huijsmans… - Physics of …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The interaction of static Resonant Magnetic Perturbations (RMPs) with the plasma flows is
modeled in toroidal geometry, using the non-linear resistive MHD code JOREK, which …

Screening of resonant magnetic perturbations by flows in tokamaks

M Becoulet, F Orain, P Maget, N Mellet, X Garbet… - Nuclear …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The non-linear reduced four-field RMHD model in cylindrical geometry was extended to
include plasma rotation, neoclassical poloidal viscosity and two fluid diamagnetic effects …

Scaling of the MHD perturbation amplitude required to trigger a disruption and predictions for ITER

PC De Vries, G Pautasso, E Nardon, P Cahyna… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The amplitude of locked instabilities, likely magnetic islands, seen as precursors to
disruptions has been studied using data from the JET, ASDEX Upgrade and COMPASS …

Toroidal modeling of plasma response and resonant magnetic perturbation field penetration

YQ Liu, A Kirk, Y Sun, P Cahyna… - Plasma Physics and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The penetration dynamics of the resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) field is simulated in
the full toroidal geometry, under realistic plasma conditions in MAST experiments. The …