Impurity transport in tokamak plasmas, theory, modelling and comparison with experiments

C Angioni - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, the theory of collisional and turbulent transport of impurities in tokamak
plasmas is reviewed. The results are presented with the aim of providing at the same time a …

Robust stellarator optimization via flat mirror magnetic fields

JL Velasco, I Calvo, E Sánchez, FI Parra - Nuclear Fusion, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Stellarator magnetic configurations need to be optimized in order to meet all the required
properties of a fusion reactor. In this work, it is shown that a flat-mirror quasi-isodynamic (QI) …

[HTML][HTML] EUTERPE: A global gyrokinetic code for stellarator geometry

R Kleiber, M Borchardt, R Hatzky, A Könies… - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
The current state of the EUTERPE code is described with emphasis on the implemented
models and their numerical implementation. The code solves the multi-species …

Analytical model for the combined effects of rotation and collisionality on neoclassical impurity transport

D Fajardo, C Angioni, FJ Casson… - Plasma Physics and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The influence of rotation, collisionality and trapped particle fraction on the magnitude and
direction of neoclassical impurity transport in tokamaks is analyzed using an extensive …

Particle pump-out induced by trapped electron mode turbulence in electron cyclotron heated plasmas on XuanLong-50 spherical torus

M Wang, J Li, Y Bai, J Dong, Y Shi, X Zou, A Liu… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Particle pump-out effects induced by low-frequency (< 200 kHz) density fluctuations were
observed in solely electron cyclotron wave (ECW)-heated plasmas on the spherical torus …

Turbulent impurity transport simulations in Wendelstein 7-X plasmas

JM García-Regaña, M Barnes, I Calvo… - Journal of Plasma …, 2021 - cambridge.org
A study of turbulent impurity transport by means of quasilinear and nonlinear gyrokinetic
simulations is presented for Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X). The calculations have been carried out …

[HTML][HTML] Dependence of the impurity transport on the dominant turbulent regime in ELM-y H-mode discharges on the DIII-D tokamak

T Odstrčil, NT Howard, F Sciortino, C Chrystal… - Physics of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Laser blow-off injections of aluminum and tungsten have been performed on the DIII-D
tokamak to investigate the variation of impurity transport in a set of dedicated ion and …

A model for the fast evaluation of prompt losses of energetic ions in stellarators

JL Velasco, I Calvo, S Mulas, E Sánchez… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A good understanding of the confinement of energetic ions in non-axisymmetric magnetic
fields is key for the design of reactors based on the stellarator concept. In this work, we …

Flux-surface variations of the electrostatic potential in stellarators: impact on the radial electric field and neoclassical impurity transport

A Mollén, M Landreman, HM Smith… - Plasma Physics and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Flux-surface variations of the electrostatic potential are typically neglected in standard
neoclassical theory, but in 3D devices they can be large enough to affect the radial particle …

KNOSOS: a fast orbit-averaging neoclassical code for stellarator geometry

JL Velasco, I Calvo, FI Parra… - Journal of Computational …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract KNOSOS (KiNetic Orbit-averaging SOlver for Stellarators) is a freely available, open-
source code (https://github. com/joseluisvelasco/KNOSOS) that calculates neoclassical …