Resonant magnetic perturbations of edge-plasmas in toroidal confinement devices

TE Evans - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Controlling the boundary layer in fusion-grade, high-performance, plasma discharges is
essential for the successful development of toroidal magnetic confinement power generating …

Full toroidal plasma response to externally applied nonaxisymmetric magnetic fields

Y Liu, A Kirk, E Nardon - Physics of Plasmas, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The plasma response to resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) and nonresonant
perturbation fields is computed within a linear, full toroidal, single-fluid resistive …

Modelling of plasma response to resonant magnetic perturbation fields in MAST and ITER

Y Liu, A Kirk, Y Gribov, MP Gryaznevich… - Nuclear …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) fields, including the plasma response, are
computed within a linear, full toroidal, single-fluid resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) …

Calculations of two-fluid linear response to non-axisymmetric fields in tokamaks

NM Ferraro - Physics of Plasmas, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
The zero-frequency linear plasma response to static applied non-axisymmetric fields is
calculated using a resistive two-fluid model in diverted, toroidal geometry. Within this model …

Non-linear magnetohydrodynamic modeling of plasma response to resonant magnetic perturbations

F Orain, M Bécoulet, G Dif-Pradalier, G Huijsmans… - Physics of …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The interaction of static Resonant Magnetic Perturbations (RMPs) with the plasma flows is
modeled in toroidal geometry, using the non-linear resistive MHD code JOREK, which …

Screening of resonant magnetic perturbations by flows in tokamaks

M Becoulet, F Orain, P Maget, N Mellet, X Garbet… - Nuclear …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The non-linear reduced four-field RMHD model in cylindrical geometry was extended to
include plasma rotation, neoclassical poloidal viscosity and two fluid diamagnetic effects …

ELM control with RMP: plasma response models and the role of edge peeling response

Y Liu, CJ Ham, A Kirk, L Li, A Loarte… - Plasma Physics and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Resonant magnetic perturbations (RMP) have extensively been demonstrated as a
plausible technique for mitigating or suppressing large edge localized modes (ELMs) …

Theory and observations of magnetic islands

FL Waelbroeck - Nuclear Fusion, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic islands are a ubiquitous feature of magnetically confined plasmas. They arise as
the result of plasma instabilities as well as externally imposed symmetry-breaking …

Magnetic perturbation experiments on MAST L-and H-mode plasmas using internal coils

A Kirk, Y Liu, E Nardon, P Tamain… - Plasma Physics and …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Experiments have been performed on MAST using internal (n= 3) resonant magnetic
perturbation (RMP) coils. The application of the RMPs to L-mode discharges has shown a …

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 …