Progress in the development and understanding of a high poloidal-beta tokamak operating scenario for an attractive fusion pilot plant

S Ding, AM Garofalo - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2022 - Springer
The high poloidal-beta (β P) regime was first proposed as a high bootstrap current scenario
for a steady-state fusion pilot plant (FPP) in the 1990s (Kikuchi in Nucl Fusion 30: 265 …

Integrated modeling of CFETR hybrid scenario plasmas

J Chen, VS Chan, X Jian, X Zhang, Q Ren, G Li… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Demonstration of DEMO relevant fusion power (Pfus) level and tritium self-sufficiency are
two important goals of the China fusion engineering testing reactor (CFETR). In this work the …

A model of the saturation of coupled electron and ion scale gyrokinetic turbulence

GM Staebler, NT Howard, J Candy, C Holland - Nuclear Fusion, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
A new paradigm of zonal flow mixing as the mechanism by which zonal E $\times $ B
fluctuations impact the saturation of gyrokinetic turbulence has recently been deduced from …

Progress in extending high poloidal beta scenarios on DIII-D towards a steady-state fusion reactor and impact of energetic particles

J Huang, AM Garofalo, JP Qian, XZ Gong… - Nuclear …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
To prepare for steady-state operation of future fusion reactors (eg the International
Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor …

DIII-D research to prepare for steady state advanced tokamak power plants

RJ Buttery, B Covele, J Ferron, A Garofalo… - Journal of Fusion …, 2019 - Springer
We review progress made on the advanced tokamak path to fusion energy by the DIII-D
National Fusion Facility (Luxon et al. in Nucl Fusion 42: 614, 2002). The advanced tokamak …

Role of microtearing turbulence in DIII-D high bootstrap current fraction plasmas

X Jian, C Holland, J Candy, E Belli, V Chan… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We report on the first direct comparisons of microtearing turbulence simulations to
experimental measurements in a representative high bootstrap current fraction (f BS) …

Progress of physics understanding for long pulse high-performance plasmas on EAST towards the steady-state operation of ITER and CFETR

J Huang, X Gong, AM Garofalo, J Qian… - Plasma Physics and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, the first ever 100 s long, steady-state H-mode discharge with good control of
impurities, core and edge MHD stabilities, and heat exhaust was demonstrated in the …

Joint DIII-D/EAST research on the development of a high poloidal beta scenario for the steady state missions of ITER and CFETR

AM Garofalo, XZ Gong, SY Ding, J Huang… - Plasma Physics and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Experimental and modeling investigations on the DIII-D and EAST tokamaks show the
attractive transport and stability properties of fully noninductive, high poloidal-beta (β P) …

Energy transport analysis of NSTX plasmas with the TGLF turbulent and NEO neoclassical transport models

G Avdeeva, KE Thome, SP Smith, DJ Battaglia… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
This work presents a study of plasma transport at low aspect ratio on the National Spherical
Torus Experiment tokamak, where the turbulent and neoclassical energy fluxes calculated …

Transport barriers in bootstrap-driven tokamaks

GM Staebler, AM Garofalo, C Pan, J McClenaghan… - Physics of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Experiments have demonstrated improved energy confinement due to the spontaneous
formation of an internal transport barrier in high bootstrap fraction discharges. Gyrokinetic …