Plasma burn—mind the gap

H Meyer, STEP Plasma Team - Philosophical …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The programme to design plasma scenarios for the Spherical Tokamak for Energy
Production (STEP), a reactor concept aiming at net electricity production, seeks to exploit the …

Digital: accelerating the pathway

A Davis, C Waldon, SI Muldrew… - Philosophical …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) programme is an ambitious but
challenging endeavour to design and deliver a prototype fusion power plant. It is a rapid, fast …

A quasi-linear model of electromagnetic turbulent transport and its application to flux-driven transport predictions for STEP

M Giacomin, D Dickinson, W Dorland… - Journal of Plasma …, 2025 - cambridge.org
A quasi-linear reduced transport model is developed from a database of high-
electromagnetic nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations performed with spherical tokamak for …

Impurity transport driven by kinetic ballooning mode in the strong gradient pedestal of tokamak plasmas

S Huang, W Guo, L Wang - Nuclear Fusion, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The impurity transport driven by kinetic ballooning mode (KBM) is theoretically studied in the
DIII-D H-mode strong gradient pedestal plasmas. From the electromagnetic gyrokinetic …

Summary of the theory and modeling contributions at the 29th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2023)

FM Poli - Nuclear Fusion, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The contributions in magnetic confinement fusion theory presented at the 29th Fusion
Energy Conference (FEC 2003) are summarized here. This summary aims at providing an …

Implementation of a long-wavelength model for parallel magnetic fluctuations in the global GENE code

F Sheffield, T Görler, F Wilms… - Plasma Physics and …, 2025 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
A long-wavelength model for the turbulent magnetic fluctuations parallel to the magnetic
field ([image]) has been implemented in the global gyrokinetic code GENE. The model …