Plasma detachment in divertor tokamaks

AW Leonard - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Observations of divertor plasma detachment in tokamaks are reviewed. Plasma detachment
is characterized in terms of transport and dissipation of power, momentum and particle flux …

MANTIS: a real-time quantitative multispectral imaging system for fusion plasmas

A Perek, WAJ Vijvers, Y Andrebe… - Review of Scientific …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
This work presents a novel, real-time capable, 10-channel Multispectral Advanced
Narrowband Tokamak Imaging System installed on the TCV tokamak, MANTIS. Software …

Flux Driven Detachment Bifurcation in the DIII-D Tokamak

AE Jaervinen, SL Allen, D Eldon, ME Fenstermacher… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
A bifurcative step transition from low-density, high-temperature, attached divertor conditions
to high-density, low-temperature, detached divertor conditions is experimentally observed in …

Divertor impurity seeding with a new feedback control scheme for maintaining good core confinement in grassy-ELM H-mode regime with tungsten monoblock divertor …

GS Xu, QP Yuan, KD Li, L Wang, JC Xu… - Nuclear …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Small perturbations and strong impurity exhaust capability associated with the small grassy
ELMs render the grassy-ELM regime a suitable candidate for achieving steady-state H …

CAKE: consistent automatic kinetic equilibrium reconstruction

ZA Xing, D Eldon, AO Nelson, MA Roelofs… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium reconstructions with kinetic constraints are an essential
input of many tokamak stability and transport analysis workflows. The reconstructions …

An analysis of controlled detachment by seeding various impurity species in high performance scenarios on DIII-D and EAST

D Eldon, HQ Wang, L Wang, J Barr, S Ding… - Nuclear Materials and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Experiments at DIII-D and EAST have demonstrated simultaneous high confinement,
divertor detachment, and active control of detachment level, all of which are required for …

OMFIT tokamak profile data fitting and physics analysis

NC Logan, BA Grierson, SR Haskey… - Fusion Science and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract One Modeling Framework for Integrated Tasks (OMFIT) has been used to develop a
consistent tool for interfacing with, mapping, visualizing, and fitting tokamak profile …

Real-time feedback control of the impurity emission front in tokamak divertor plasmas

T Ravensbergen, M van Berkel, A Perek… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In magnetic confinement thermonuclear fusion the exhaust of heat and particles from the
core remains a major challenge. Heat and particles leaving the core are transported via …

A spectroscopic inference and SOLPS-ITER comparison of flux-resolved edge plasma parameters in detachment experiments on TCV

A Perek, M Wensing, K Verhaegh, BL Linehan… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This work presents the use of a collisional-radiative model to infer plasma parameters from
2D emissivities of several deuterium Balmer lines. The emissivities were obtained by …

Characterization and controllability of radiated power via extrinsic impurity seeding in strongly negative triangularity plasmas in DIII-D

D Eldon, L Casali, I Bykov, C Chrystal… - Plasma Physics and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Experiments with extrinsic impurity seeding in strongly negative triangularity shapes in DIII-D
achieved radiated power fractions (relative to input power) of up to≈ 85% total radiation …