Geodesic acoustic modes in magnetic confinement devices

GD Conway, AI Smolyakov, T Ido - Nuclear Fusion, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) are ubiquitous oscillatory flow phenomena observed in
toroidal magnetic confinement fusion plasmas, such as tokamaks and stellarators. They are …

Energetic particle physics in fusion research in preparation for burning plasma experiments

NN Gorelenkov, SD Pinches, K Toi - Nuclear Fusion, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The area of energetic particle (EP) physics in fusion research has been actively and
extensively researched in recent decades. The progress achieved in advancing and …

Observation of long-distance radial correlation in toroidal plasma turbulence

S Inagaki, T Tokuzawa, K Itoh, K Ida, SI Itoh, N Tamura… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
This Letter presents the discovery of macroscale electron temperature fluctuations with a
long radial correlation length comparable to the plasma minor radius in a toroidal plasma …

Energetic-ion-driven global instabilities in stellarator/helical plasmas and comparison with tokamak plasmas

K Toi, K Ogawa, M Isobe, M Osakabe… - Plasma Physics and …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Comprehensive understanding of energetic-ion-driven global instabilities such as Alfvén
eigenmodes (AEs) and their impact on energetic ions and bulk plasma is crucially important …

Strong destabilization of stable modes with a half-frequency associated with chirping geodesic acoustic modes in the large helical device

T Ido, K Itoh, M Osakabe, M Lesur, A Shimizu… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Abrupt and strong excitation of a mode has been observed when the frequency of a chirping
energetic-particle driven geodesic acoustic mode (EGAM) reaches twice the geodesic …

Comprehensive magnetohydrodynamic hybrid simulations of fast ion driven instabilities in a Large Helical Device experiment

Y Todo, R Seki, DA Spong, H Wang, Y Suzuki… - Physics of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Alfvén eigenmodes (AEs) destabilized by the neutral beam injection (NBI) in a Large Helical
Device experiment are investigated using multi-phase magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) hybrid …

Chirping and sudden excitation of energetic-particle-driven geodesic acoustic modes in a large helical device experiment

H Wang, Y Todo, T Ido, Y Suzuki - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Energetic-particle-driven geodesic acoustic modes (EGAMs) observed in a Large Helical
Device experiment are investigated using a hybrid simulation code for energetic particles …

Hole-Clump Pair Creation in the Evolution of Energetic-Particle-Driven<? format?> Geodesic Acoustic Modes

H Wang, Y Todo, CC Kim - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
Nonlinear frequency chirping of the energetic-particle-driven geodesic acoustic mode
(EGAM) is investigated using a hybrid simulation code for energetic particles interacting with …

Identification of the energetic-particle driven GAM in the LHD

T Ido, M Osakabe, A Shimizu, T Watari… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract n= 0 modes with frequency chirping have been observed by a heavy ion beam
probe and Mirnov coils in the large helical device plasmas, where n is the toroidal mode …

Simulation study of high-frequency energetic particle driven geodesic acoustic mode

H Wang, Y Todo, T Ido, M Osakabe - Physics of Plasmas, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
High-frequency energetic particle driven geodesic acoustic modes (EGAM) observed in the
large helical device plasmas are investigated using a hybrid simulation code for energetic …