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 …

The role of turbulence–flow interactions in L-to H-mode transition dynamics: recent progress

L Schmitz - Nuclear Fusion, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent experimental and simulation work has substantially advanced the understanding of
L-mode plasma edge turbulence and plasma flows and their mutual interaction across the L …

The separatrix operational space of ASDEX Upgrade due to interchange-drift-Alfvén turbulence

T Eich, P Manz, ASDEX Upgrade Team - Nuclear Fusion, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The efficient operation of a tokamak is limited by several constraints, such as the transition to
high confinement or the density limits occurring in both confinement regimes. These …

Towards an emerging understanding of non-locality phenomena and non-local transport

K Ida, Z Shi, HJ Sun, S Inagaki, K Kamiya… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, recent progress on experimental analysis and theoretical models for non-local
transport (non-Fickian fluxes in real space) is reviewed. The non-locality in the heat and …

Spatiotemporal Structures of Edge Limit-Cycle Oscillation before L-to-H<? format?> Transition in the JFT-2M Tokamak

T Kobayashi, K Itoh, T Ido, K Kamiya, SI Itoh, Y Miura… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
In this Letter, we report analyses of spatiotemporal dynamics of turbulence and structure in
the limit-cycle oscillation (LCO) that precedes an L-to-H transition. Zonal flows are not …

[HTML][HTML] Role of sheared E× B flow in self-organized, improved confinement states in magnetized plasmas

KH Burrell - Physics of Plasmas, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
A major scientific success story of magnetic fusion research in the past several decades has
been the theoretical development and experimental testing of the process of turbulence …

Characterisation of highly radiating neon seeded plasmas in JET-ILW

S Glöggler, M Wischmeier, E Fable, ER Solano… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
To study the impact of strong impurity radiation on the energy confinement and the
discharge stability at JET-ILW, dedicated high-density, highly heated experiments with neon …

Hysteresis relation between turbulence and temperature modulation during the heat pulse propagation into a magnetic island in DIII-D

K Ida, T Kobayashi, M Ono, TE Evans, GR McKee… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
The hysteresis relation between turbulence and temperature modulation during the heat
pulse propagation into a magnetic island is studied for the first time in toroidal plasmas …

Interplay between turbulence, neoclassical and zonal flows during the transition from low to high confinement mode at ASDEX Upgrade

M Cavedon, T Pütterich, E Viezzer… - Nuclear …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The spatio-temporal interplay between turbulence, mean and zonal flows has been
investigated at the L–H and H–L transitions in the edge region of the ASDEX Upgrade …

Magnetic structure and frequency scaling of limit-cycle oscillations close to L-to H-mode transitions

G Birkenmeier, M Cavedon, GD Conway, P Manz… - Nuclear …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Limit-cycle oscillations (LCOs) close to the power threshold of L-to H-mode transitions are
investigated in plasmas of ASDEX Upgrade. During this phase, referred to as I-phase, a …