Plasma performance and operational space without ELMs in DIII-D

C Paz-Soldan, DIII-D Team - Plasma Physics and Controlled …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract A database of DIII-D plasmas without edge-localized modes (ELMs) compares the
operating space and plasma performance of stationary no-ELM regimes found in …

The JOREK non-linear extended MHD code and applications to large-scale instabilities and their control in magnetically confined fusion plasmas

M Hoelzl, GTA Huijsmans, SJP Pamela… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
JOREK is a massively parallel fully implicit non-linear extended magneto-hydrodynamic
(MHD) code for realistic tokamak X-point plasmas. It has become a widely used versatile …

Overview of recent progress in 3D field physics in KSTAR

G Park, Y In, JK Park, WH Ko, J Lee, M Kim… - Journal of the Korean …, 2022 - Springer
Various 3D field physics challenges of magnetically confined plasmas arise when the
driving source comes from either externally applied non-axisymmetric 3D magnetic …

[HTML][HTML] Theory of edge localized mode suppression by static resonant magnetic perturbations in the DIII-D tokamak

R Fitzpatrick - Physics of Plasmas, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
According to a recent paper [Hu et al., Phys. Plasmas 26, 120702 (2019)], mode penetration
at the top of the pedestal is a necessary and sufficient condition for the suppression of edge …

Investigation of performance enhancement by balanced double-null sha** in KSTAR

B Kim, MS Park, YH Lee, SK Kim, CY Lee… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report experimental observations on the effect of plasma boundary sha** towards
balanced double-null (DN) configuration on the plasma performance in KSTAR. The …

[HTML][HTML] Growing neoclassical tearing modes seeded via transient-induced-multimode interactions

EC Howell, JR King, SE Kruger, JD Callen… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Nonlinear extended magnetohydrodynamics simulations demonstrating seeding of
neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs) via magnetohydrodynamics-transient-induced …

[HTML][HTML] Parametric dependencies of resonant layer responses across linear, two-fluid, drift-MHD regimes

JK Park - Physics of Plasmas, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Non-axisymmetric magnetic fields arising in a tokamak either by external or internal
perturbations can induce complex non-ideal MHD responses in their resonant surfaces …

Advances in physics of the magneto-hydro-dynamic and turbulence-based instabilities in toroidal plasmas via 2-D/3-D visualization

HK Park, MJ Choi, M Kim, M Kim, J Lee, D Lee… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - Springer
A robust theoretical framework for describing the explosive growth of the magneto-hydro-
dynamic (MHD) and turbulence-based instabilities in toroidal plasmas can only be achieved …

Nonlinear MHD modeling of n= 1 RMP-induced pedestal transport and mode coupling effects on ELM suppression in KSTAR

SK Kim, S Pamela, NC Logan, YS Na, CY Lee… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Fully suppressing edge-localized modes (ELMs), eg, with resonant magnetic perturbations
(RMPs), is essential to reach and sustain high-performance steady-state H-mode plasmas …

Integrated study of magnetohydrodynamic stability in the HL-2A tokamak

Y Shen, JQ Dong, XD Peng, HD He, JX Li - Physical Review E, 2025 - APS
The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instability in the HL-2A tokamak has been
comprehensively studied, including ideal MHD ballooning and kink modes, as well as the …