Resonant magnetic perturbations of edge-plasmas in toroidal confinement devices

TE Evans - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Controlling the boundary layer in fusion-grade, high-performance, plasma discharges is
essential for the successful development of toroidal magnetic confinement power generating …

Neoclassical plasma viscosity and transport processes in non-axisymmetric tori

KC Shaing, K Ida, SA Sabbagh - Nuclear Fusion, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Neoclassical transport processes are important to the understanding of plasma confinement
physics in doubly periodic magnetized toroidal plasmas, especially, after the impact of the …

Principal physics developments evaluated in the ITER design review

RJ Hawryluk, DJ Campbell, G Janeschitz… - Nuclear …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
As part of the ITER Design Review and in response to the issues identified by the Science
and Technology Advisory Committee, the ITER physics requirements were reviewed and as …

Observation of Lobes near the Point in Resonant Magnetic <?format ?>Perturbation Experiments on MAST

A Kirk, J Harrison, Y Liu, E Nardon, IT Chapman… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
The application of nonaxisymmetric resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs) with a toroidal
mode number n= 6 in the MAST tokamak produces a significant reduction in plasma energy …

Advances in the physics understanding of ELM suppression using resonant magnetic perturbations in DIII-D

MR Wade, R Nazikian, JS deGrassie, TE Evans… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent experiments on DIII-D have increased confidence in the ability to suppress edge-
localized modes (ELMs) using edge-resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs) in ITER …

Magnetic perturbation experiments on MAST L-and H-mode plasmas using internal coils

A Kirk, Y Liu, E Nardon, P Tamain… - Plasma Physics and …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Experiments have been performed on MAST using internal (n= 3) resonant magnetic
perturbation (RMP) coils. The application of the RMPs to L-mode discharges has shown a …

Overview of the JET results with the ITER-like wall

F Romanelli, JETE Contributors - Nuclear Fusion, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Following the completion in May 2011 of the shutdown for the installation of the beryllium
wall and the tungsten divertor, the first set of JET campaigns have addressed the …

Introduction to resonant magnetic perturbation coils of the J-TEXT tokamak

B Rao, G Wang, YH Ding, KX Yu, QL Li… - Fusion engineering and …, 2014 - Elsevier
To investigate the interactions between both the static and rotating resonant magnetic
perturbations (RMP) and the tokamak plasma, two sets of coils, namely static RMP (SRMP) …

Understanding the effect resonant magnetic perturbations have on ELMs

A Kirk, IT Chapman, TE Evans, C Ham… - Plasma physics and …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
All current estimations of the energy released by type I edge-localized modes (ELMs)
indicate that, in order to ensure an adequate lifetime of the divertor targets on ITER, a …

Toroidal rotation braking with n= 1 magnetic perturbation field on JET

Y Sun, Y Liang, HR Koslowski… - Plasma physics and …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
A strong toroidal rotation braking has been observed in plasmas with application of an n= 1
magnetic perturbation field on the JET tokamak. Calculation results from the momentum …