A brief history of negative triangularity tokamak plasmas

A Marinoni, O Sauter, S Coda - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2021 - Springer
This review is devoted to tokamak plasmas with a cross sectional shape featuring negative
triangularity, which appear to hold great promise as a candidate reactor configuration owing …

Robust avoidance of edge-localized modes alongside gradient formation in the negative triangularity tokamak edge

AO Nelson, L Schmitz, C Paz-Soldan, KE Thome… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
In a series of high performance diverted discharges on DIII-D, we demonstrate that strong
negative triangularity (NT) shaping robustly suppresses all edge-localized mode (ELM) …

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≈ …

Recent progress on the development and analysis of the ITPA global H-mode confinement database

DC McDonald, JG Cordey, K Thomsen… - Nuclear …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper describes the updates to and analysis of the International Tokamak Physics
Activity (ITPA) Global H-Mode Confinement Database version 3 (DB3) over the period 1994 …

Impact of plasma triangularity and collisionality on electron heat transport in TCV L-mode plasmas

Y Camenen, A Pochelon, R Behn, A Bottino… - Nuclear …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
The impact of plasma shaping on electron heat transport is investigated in TCV L-mode
plasmas. The study is motivated by the observation of an increase in the energy confinement …

L-mode-edge negative triangularity tokamak reactor

M Kikuchi, T Takizuka, S Medvedev, T Ando… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The negative triangularity tokamak (NTT) is a unique reactor concept based on'power-
handling-first'philosophy with the heat exhaust problem as the leading concern. The present …

Enhanced confinement in diverted negative-triangularity L-mode plasmas in TCV

S Coda, A Merle, O Sauter, L Porte… - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The favorable confinement properties of negative-triangularity (NT) tokamak configurations
were discovered in the TCV tokamak in the late 1990s and were documented over the two …

Essay: Overcoming the obstacles to a magnetic fusion power plant

A Fasoli - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Fusion occurs when light nuclei combine to form heavier nuclei. The energy released in this
process powers the stars and can provide humankind with a safe, sustainable, and clean …

Prospects of core–edge integrated no-ELM and small-ELM scenarios for future fusion devices

E Viezzer, ME Austin, M Bernert, KH Burrell… - Nuclear Materials and …, 2023 - Elsevier
One of our grand challenges towards fusion energy is the achievement of a high-
performance plasma core coupled to a boundary solution. The high confinement mode (H …

Nonlocal effects in negative triangularity TCV plasmas

G Merlo, Z Huang, C Marini, S Brunner… - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Global gradient driven gyrokinetic simulations performed with the Gyrokinetic
Electromagnetic Numerical Experiment (GENE) code are used to investigate Tokamak à …