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 …

Overview of progress in European medium sized tokamaks towards an integrated plasma-edge/wall solution a

H Meyer, T Eich, M Beurskens, S Coda, A Hakola… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Integrating the plasma core performance with an edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) that leads
to tolerable heat and particle loads on the wall is a major challenge. The new European …

Nonlinear transition from mitigation to suppression of the edge localized mode with resonant magnetic perturbations in the EAST tokamak

Y Sun, Y Liang, YQ Liu, S Gu, X Yang, W Guo, T Shi… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Evidence of a nonlinear transition from mitigation to suppression of the edge localized mode
(ELM) by using resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs) in the EAST tokamak is presented …

Progress on the application of ELM control schemes to ITER scenarios from the non-active phase to DT operation

A Loarte, G Huijsmans, S Futatani, LR Baylor… - Nuclear …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Progress in the definition of the requirements for edge localized mode (ELM) control and the
application of ELM control methods both for high fusion performance DT operation and non …

Suppression of Edge Localized Modes in High-Confinement KSTAR Plasmas<? format?> by Nonaxisymmetric Magnetic Perturbations

YM Jeon, JK Park, SW Yoon, WH Ko, SG Lee, KD Lee… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
Edge localized modes (ELMs) in high-confinement mode plasmas were completely
suppressed in KSTAR by applying n= 1 nonaxisymmetric magnetic perturbations. Initially …

A long-pulse high-confinement plasma regime in the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak

J Li, HY Guo, BN Wan, XZ Gong, YF Liang, GS Xu… - Nature physics, 2013 - nature.com
High-performance and long-pulse operation is a crucial goal of current magnetic fusion
research. Here, we demonstrate a high-confinement plasma regime known as an H-mode …

[HTML][HTML] ELM divertor peak energy fluence scaling to ITER with data from JET, MAST and ASDEX upgrade

T Eich, B Sieglin, AJ Thornton, M Faitsch, A Kirk… - Nuclear Materials and …, 2017 - Elsevier
A newly established scaling of the ELM energy fluence using dedicated data sets from JET
operation with CFC & ILW plasma facing components (PFCs), ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) …

Pedestal bifurcation and resonant field penetration at the threshold of edge-localized mode suppression in the DIII-D tokamak

R Nazikian, C Paz-Soldan, JD Callen, JS DeGrassie… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
Rapid bifurcations in the plasma response to slowly varying n= 2 magnetic fields are
observed as the plasma transitions into and out of edge-localized mode (ELM) suppression …

Observation of a multimode plasma response and its relationship to density pumpout and edge-localized mode suppression

C Paz-Soldan, R Nazikian, SR Haskey, NC Logan… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
Density pumpout and edge-localized mode (ELM) suppression by applied n= 2 magnetic
fields in low-collisionality DIII-D plasmas are shown to be correlated with the magnitude of …