Magnetic-confinement fusion

J Ongena, R Koch, R Wolf, H Zohm - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Our modern society requires environmentally friendly solutions for energy production.
Energy can be released not only from the fission of heavy nuclei but also from the fusion of …

The SPARC toroidal field model coil program

ZS Hartwig, RF Vieira, D Dunn… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The SPARC Toroidal Field Model Coil (TFMC) Program was a three-year effort between
2018 and 2021 that developed novel rare earth barium copper oxide (REBCO) …

First-principles density limit scaling in tokamaks based on edge turbulent transport and implications for ITER

M Giacomin, A Pau, P Ricci, O Sauter, T Eich… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
A first-principles scaling law, based on turbulent transport considerations, and a
multimachine database of density limit discharges from the ASDEX Upgrade, JET, and TCV …

[HTML][HTML] Plasma-wall interaction impact of the ITER re-baseline

RA Pitts, A Loarte, T Wauters, M Dubrov… - Nuclear Materials and …, 2025 - Elsevier
To mitigate the impact of technical delays, provide a more rationalized approach to the
safety demonstration and move forward as rapidly as possible to a reactor relevant materials …

Uncovering turbulent plasma dynamics via deep learning from partial observations

A Mathews, M Francisquez, JW Hughes, DR Hatch… - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
One of the most intensely studied aspects of magnetic confinement fusion is edge plasma
turbulence which is critical to reactor performance and operation. Drift-reduced Braginskii …

Predictions of core plasma performance for the SPARC tokamak

P Rodriguez-Fernandez, NT Howard… - Journal of Plasma …, 2020 - cambridge.org
SPARC is designed to be a high-field, medium-size tokamak aimed at achieving net energy
gain with ion cyclotron range-of-frequencies (ICRF) as its primary auxiliary heating …

Overview of the recent experimental research on the J-TEXT tokamak

Y Liang, NC Wang, YH Ding, ZY Chen, ZP Chen… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent J-TEXT research has highlighted the significance of the role that non-axisymmetric
magnetic perturbations, so called three-dimensional (3D) magnetic perturbation (MP) fields …

ADX: a high field, high power density, advanced divertor and RF tokamak

B LaBombard, E Marmar, J Irby, JL Terry… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center and collaborators are proposing a high-
performance Advanced Divertor and RF tokamak eXperiment (ADX)—a tokamak specifically …

Simulations of tokamak boundary plasma turbulence transport in setting the divertor heat flux width

XQ Xu, NM Li, ZY Li, B Chen, TY **a, TF Tang… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The BOUT++ code has been used to simulate edge plasma electromagnetic (EM)
turbulence and transport, and to study the role of EM turbulence in setting the scrape-off …

Collision term for uniformly magnetized plasmas

C Dong, W Zhang, J Cao, D Li - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2023 - Springer
Collision process is crucial to the transport in magnetized plasmas. This article reviews the
three typical approaches, ie the Fokker-Planck (FP) approach, the Bogoliubov-Born-Green …