Heavy ion beam probing—diagnostics to study potential and turbulence in toroidal plasmas

AV Melnikov, LI Krupnik, LG Eliseev, JM Barcala… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Heavy ion beam probing (HIBP) is a unique diagnostics to study the core plasma potential
and turbulence. Advanced HIBPs operate in the T-10 tokamak and TJ-II flexible heliac with …

Stability optimization of energetic particle driven modes in nuclear fusion devices: the FAR3d gyro-fluid code

J Varela, D Spong, L Garcia, Y Ghai, J Ortiz… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The development of reduced models provide efficient methods that can be used to perform
short term experimental data analysis or narrow down the parametric range of more …

Overview of the TJ-II stellarator research programme towards model validation in fusion plasmas

C Hidalgo, E Ascasíbar, D Alegre, A Alonso… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
TJ-II stellarator results on modelling and validation of plasma flow asymmetries due to on-
surface potential variations, plasma fuelling physics, Alfvén eigenmodes (AEs) control and …

ECRH effect on the electric potential and turbulence in the TJ-II stellarator and T-10 tokamak plasmas

AV Melnikov, LI Krupnik, E Ascasibar… - Plasma Physics and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Electric field Ε or electric potential φ plays a key role in the transport and turbulence of
toroidal plasmas. It is believed that mean radial E r suppresses the turbulence eddies via E× …

Study of Geodesic Acoustic and Alfvén Modes in Toroidal Fusion Devices (Brief Review)

AV Melnikov, VA Vershkov, SA Grashin, MA Drabinskiy… - JETP Letters, 2022 - Springer
Geodesic acoustic modes, Alfvén eigenmodes, stationary and oscillating components of the
electric field, and their relations to plasma confinement have been studied. Theoretical …

Stability analysis of TJ-II stellarator NBI driven Alfvén eigenmodes in ECRH and ECCD experiments

Á Cappa, J Varela, DL Bruna, E Ascasíbar… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we analyze the impact of electron cyclotron resonance heating and electron
cyclotron current drive on the Alfvénic instabilities driven by neutral beam injection observed …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental observation of the geodesic acoustic frequency limit for the NBI-driven Alfvén eigenmodes in TJ-II

LG Eliseev, AV Melnikov, E Ascasibar, A Cappa… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We study Alfvén eigenmodes (AEs) in the TJ-II heliac in hydrogen plasmas heated by
hydrogen co-field neutral beam injector. Taking advantage of the unique TJ-II flexibility in a …

Study of Alfvén eigenmodes with heavy ion beam probing in the TJ-II stellarator

LG Eliseev, AV Melnikov, SE Lysenko - Reviews of Modern Plasma …, 2022 - Springer
The study of Alfvén eigenmodes (AEs) driven by fast particles in toroidal plasmas is of a
great importance for future fusion reactor with plasma, dominating by fusion alphas. The …

Study of NBI-driven chirping mode properties and radial location by the heavy ion beam probe in the TJ-II stellarator

AV Melnikov, LG Eliseev, F Castejón, C Hidalgo… - Nuclear …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Alfvén eigenmodes (AEs) were studied in low magnetic shear flexible heliac TJ-II (B 0= 0.95
T, R 0= 1.5 m, $\langle a\rangle $= 0.22 m) neutral beam injection (NBI) heated plasmas (P …

Transition from chirping to steady NBI-driven Alfvén modes caused by magnetic configuration variations in the TJ-II stellarator

AV Melnikov, LG Eliseev, E Ascasíbar, A Cappa… - Nuclear …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Beam-driven Alfvén eigenmodes (AEs) have been studied in the TJ-II low-magnetic-shear
flexible heliac (B 0= 0.95 T,< R>= 1.5 m,< a>= 0.22 m), in L-mode hydrogen plasmas with …