Elements of H-mode pedestal structure

RJ Groebner, S Saarelma - Plasma Physics and Controlled …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reviews current understanding of key physics elements that control the H-mode
pedestal structure, which exists at the boundary of magnetically confined plasmas. The …

Identifying the microtearing modes in the pedestal of DIII-D H-modes using gyrokinetic simulations

E Hassan, DR Hatch, MR Halfmoon, M Curie… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent evidence points toward the microtearing mode (MTM) as an important fluctuation in
the H-mode pedestal for anomalous electron heat transport. A study of the instabilities in the …

Gyrokinetic analysis of inter-edge localized mode transport mechanisms in a DIII-D pedestal

MR Halfmoon, DR Hatch, MT Kotschenreuther… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In this study, gyrokinetic simulations are used to study pedestal fluctuations for DIII-D
discharge 174082 using the GENE code. Nonlinear local simulations indicate that electron …

Micro-tearing mode dominated electron heat transport in DIII-D H-mode pedestal

J Chen, X Jian, DL Brower, SR Haskey, Z Yan… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A new, comprehensive set of evidence reveals that Micro-Tearing Modes (MTMs) dominate
pedestal electron heat transport in an H-mode experiment in the DIII-D tokamak. The …

[HTML][HTML] Theoretical and global simulation analysis of collisional microtearing modes

K Fan, XQ Xu, B Zhu, C Dong, T Xia, Z Li - Physics of Plasmas, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Microtearing modes (MTMs) are suggested as a candidate for anomalous thermal transport
in tokamak H-mode discharges. This study investigates MTMs in tokamak plasmas …

EuroPED-NN: Uncertainty aware surrogate model

AP Alvarez, A Ho, A Järvinen, S Saarelma… - Plasma Physics and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
This work successfully generates an uncertainty-aware surrogate model of the EuroPED
plasma pedestal model using the Bayesian neural network with noise contrastive prior (BNN …

Theoretical and Global Simulation Analysis of Collisional Microtearing

K Fan, XQ Xu, B Zhu, C Dong, T Xia, Z Li - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.08090, 2024 - arxiv.org
This study delves into Microtearing Modes (MTMs) in tokamak plasmas, employing
advanced simulations within the BOUT++ framework. The research, centering on collisional …