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 …

Non-linear MHD investigations of high-confinement regimes without type-I ELMs in ASDEX Upgrade and JT-60SA

A Cathey, M Hoelzl, L Meier, MG Dunne… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Large edge localised modes (ELMs) would cause an unacceptable reduction of material
lifetime in future large tokamaks due to the significant amount of energy expelled from the …

[HTML][HTML] Predictive nonlinear MHD simulations of quiescent H-mode plasma in the HL-3 tokamak

Z Liang, M Hoelzl, A Cathey, D Hu, SY Dai, YL Liu… - Physics of …, 2025 - pubs.aip.org
In this article, we investigate the edge localized mode (ELM)-free quiescent H (QH)-mode
regime in the HL-3 tokamak via nonlinear MHD simulations. HL-3 (previously known as HL …

[HTML][HTML] Sparsified time-dependent Fourier neural operators for fusion simulations

MM Rahman, Z Bai, JR King, CR Sovinec, X Wei… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents a sparsified Fourier neural operator for coupled time-dependent partial
differential equations (ST-FNO) as an efficient machine learning surrogate for fluid and …

Comparison of MHD stability properties between QH-mode and ELMy H-mode plasmas by considering plasma rotation and ion diamagnetic drift effects

N Aiba, X Chen, TH Osborne, KH Burrell - Nuclear Fusion, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stability at tokamak edge pedestal in a quiescent H-mode
(QH-mode) and type-I ELMy H-mode plasmas in DIII-D experiment was analyzed by …

Edge harmonic oscillations in plasmas with a separatrix and the effect of edge magnetic shear

GB Ramirez, JP Graves, D Brunetti - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
This work presents an extension of exfernal mode theory, where the effects of edge
magnetic shear and plasma separatrix are investigated and applied to edge harmonic …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling of saturated external MHD instabilities in tokamaks: A comparison of 3D free boundary equilibria and nonlinear stability calculations

R Ramasamy, GB Ramirez, M Hoelzl, J Graves… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
3D free boundary equilibrium computations have recently been used to model external kinks
and edge harmonic oscillations (EHOs), comparing with linear MHD stability codes, and …

MHD simulations of formation, sustainment and loss of quiescent H-mode in the all-tungsten ASDEX Upgrade

L Meier, M Hoelzl, A Cathey, G Huijsmans… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Periodic edge localized modes (ELMs) are the non-linear consequences of pressure-
gradient-driven ballooning modes and current-driven peeling modes becoming unstable in …

Plasmoid-mediated reconnection during nonlinear peeling–ballooning edge-localized modes

F Ebrahimi, A Bhattacharjee - Nuclear Fusion, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Plasmoid-mediated reconnection is investigated for nonlinear peeling–ballooning edge-
localized modes (PB ELMs). The formation of current sheets and the transition to 3D current …

Stabilization of kink/peeling modes by coupled rotation and ion diamagnetic drift effects in quiescent H-mode plasmas in DIII-D and JT-60U

N Aiba, X Chen, K Kamiya, M Honda… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetohydrodynamic stability at the edge pedestal in several quiescent H-mode (QH-
mode) plasmas in DIII-D and JT-60U experiments was analyzed by considering plasma …