Geodesic acoustic modes in magnetic confinement devices

GD Conway, AI Smolyakov, T Ido - Nuclear Fusion, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) are ubiquitous oscillatory flow phenomena observed in
toroidal magnetic confinement fusion plasmas, such as tokamaks and stellarators. They are …

A review of lithium application for the plasma-facing material in EAST Tokamak

JS Hu, L Li, GZ Zuo, Z Sun, W Xu, XC Meng… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - Springer
As a low-Z material, lithium is widely tested and used in tokamak devices for particle
recycling and impurity control to improve plasma performance. Lithium application as …

In situ melting phenomena on W plasma-facing components for lower divertor during long-pulse plasma operations in EAST

D Zhu, Z Guo, C Xuan, B Yu, C Li, B Gao, R Ding… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Tungsten (W) is one of the most promising plasma-facing materials for future fusion devices.
Although its melting point is the highest among all metals, it still has great risk of melting …

Recent advance progress of HL-3 experiments

XR Duan, M Xu, WL Zhong, XQ Ji, W Chen… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the first plasma realized in 2020, a series of key systems on HL-3 (known as HL-2M
before) tokamak have been equipped/upgraded, including in-vessel components (the first …

Study of Geodesic Acoustic and Alfvén Modes in Toroidal Fusion Devices (Brief Review)

AV Melnikov, VA Vershkov, SA Grashin, MA Drabinskiy… - JETP Letters, 2022 - Springer
Geodesic acoustic modes, Alfvén eigenmodes, stationary and oscillating components of the
electric field, and their relations to plasma confinement have been studied. Theoretical …

Tokamak evolution and view to future

SV Mirnov - Nuclear Fusion, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The article begins with a brief review of the achievements of Russian tokamaks in the active
period of their development from 1962 to 1973, under the leadership of academician LA …

Bispectral analysis of broadband turbulence and geodesic acoustic modes in the T-10 tokamak

GA Riggs, SH Nogami, ME Koepke… - Journal of Plasma …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Local fluctuations of electrostatic potential, poloidal electric field, magnetic potential and
electron density are simultaneously measured in the T-10 tokamak by a heavy ion beam …

High-heat flux tests of fusion materials with stationary plasma in the PLM device

VP Budaev, S Fedorovich, A Dedov… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The PLM plasma device was constructed for high heat flux tests of fusion plasma-facing
materials and in-vessel components of a fusion reactor. The ITER-grade tungsten samples …

3D structure of density fluctuations in the T-10 tokamak and new approach for current profile estimation

VA Vershkov, MA Buldakov, GF Subbotin… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The paper is focused on the new systematic measurements of the 3D spatial distributions of
the amplitudes, the radial correlation lengths and the long-range correlations along the …

Study of the origin of quasi-coherent modes in low-density KSTAR ECH plasmas

W Lee, J Lee, DJ Lee, HK Park, Kstar Team - Nuclear Fusion, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Gradual or abrupt transitions from a coherent mode to quasi-coherent mode (QCM, a type of
trapped electron mode turbulence) are observed in the core region of low-density plasmas …