Comparing spontaneous and pellet-triggered ELMs via non-linear extended MHD simulations

A Cathey, M Hoelzl, S Futatani, PT Lang… - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Injecting frozen deuterium pellets into an ELMy H-mode plasma is a well established
scheme for triggering edge localized modes (ELMs) before they naturally occur. This paper …

Transition from no-ELM response to pellet ELM triggering during pedestal build-up—insights from extended MHD simulations

S Futatani, A Cathey, M Hoelzl, PT Lang… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Pellet edge localized mode (ELM) triggering is a well-established scheme for decreasing the
time between two successive ELM crashes below its natural value. Reliable ELM pacing has …

ELM pace making and mitigation by pellet injection in ASDEX Upgrade

PT Lang, GD Conway, T Eich, L Fattorini… - Nuclear …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
In ASDEX Upgrade, experimental efforts aim to establish pace making and mitigation of type-
I edge localized modes (ELMs) in high confinement mode (H-mode) discharges. Injection of …

Non-linear MHD investigations of high-confinement regimes without type-I ELMs in ASDEX Upgrade and JT-60SA

A Cathey, M Hoelzl, L Meier, MG Dunne… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Large edge localised modes (ELMs) would cause an unacceptable reduction of material
lifetime in future large tokamaks due to the significant amount of energy expelled from the …

Investigation of pellet-triggered MHD events in ASDEX Upgrade and JET

PT Lang, K Lackner, M Maraschek, B Alper… - Nuclear …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
To get a deeper insight into the MHD activity triggered by pellets we extended our previous
analyses of standard type-I ELMs to pellets injected into discharge phases of the following …

MHD simulations of formation, sustainment and loss of quiescent H-mode in the all-tungsten ASDEX Upgrade

L Meier, M Hoelzl, A Cathey, G Huijsmans… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Periodic edge localized modes (ELMs) are the non-linear consequences of pressure-
gradient-driven ballooning modes and current-driven peeling modes becoming unstable in …

Non-linear magnetohydrodynamic simulations of edge localised mode triggering via vertical position oscillations in ITER

FJ Artola, GTA Huijsmans, M Hoelzl, P Beyer… - Nuclear …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic triggering of edge localized modes (ELMs) in Ohmic H-mode plasmas was first
reported in the TCV tokamak (Degeling et al 2003 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 45 1637) …

Insights into type‐I edge localized modes and edge localized mode control from JOREK non‐linear magneto‐hydrodynamic simulations

M Hoelzl, GTA Huijsmans, F Orain… - … to Plasma Physics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Edge localized modes (ELMs) are repetitive instabilities driven by the large pressure
gradients and current densities in the edge of H‐mode plasmas. Type‐I ELMs lead to a fast …

Non-linear extended MHD simulations of type-I edge localised mode cycles in ASDEX Upgrade and their underlying triggering mechanism

A Cathey, M Hoelzl, K Lackner, GTA Huijsmans… - Nuclear …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A triggering mechanism responsible for the explosive onset of edge localised modes (ELMs)
in fusion plasmas is identified by performing, for the first time, non-linear …

Solitary magnetic perturbations at the ELM onset

RP Wenninger, H Zohm, JE Boom, A Burckhart… - Nuclear …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Tokamak H-mode plasmas frequently exhibit edge-localized modes (ELMs). ELMs allow
maintaining sufficient plasma purity and thus enable stationary H-mode. On the other hand …