JET has been unable to recover historical confinement levels when operating with an ITER- like wall (ILW) due largely to the inaccessibility of high pedestal temperatures. Finding a …
To better understand the role of cross-scale coupling in experimental conditions, a series of multi-scale gyrokinetic simulations were performed on Alcator C-Mod, L-mode plasmas …
Experimental conditions obtained on the DIII-D tokamak in the ITER Similar Shape (ISS) have been compared extensively with nonlinear gyrokinetic simulation using the CGYRO …
Accurate prediction of fusion performance in present and future tokamaks requires taking into account the strong interplay between core transport, pedestal structure, current profile …
C Holland - Physics of Plasmas, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Developing accurate models of plasma dynamics is essential for confident predictive modeling of current and future fusion devices. In modern computer science and engineering …
SJ Freethy, T Görler, AJ Creely, GD Conway… - Physics of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Measurements of turbulent electron temperature fluctuation amplitudes, δ T e⊥/T e, frequency spectra, and radial correlation lengths, L r (T e⊥), have been performed at …
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 …
J Cazabonne, P Donnel, S Coda… - Plasma Physics and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Energy transfer from electron-cyclotron (EC) waves to the plasma is being routinely used in tokamaks to heat and drive current through the electron channel. Technical applications …
The first high fidelity gyrokinetic simulations of the energy losses in the transport barriers of large tokamaks in pursuit of fusion gain are presented. These simulations calculate the …