Time-dependent experimental identification of inter-ELM microtearing modes in the tokamak edge on DIII-D

AO Nelson, FM Laggner, A Diallo, D Smith… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In a series of discharges on the DIII-D tokamak, fast vertical plasma jogs are used to induce
current perturbations in the steep gradient region of the H-mode edge. These current …

Pedestal main ion particle transport inference through gas puff modulation with experimental source measurements

AM Rosenthal, JW Hughes, FM Laggner… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Transport in the DIII-D high confinement mode (H-mode) pedestal is investigated through a
periodic edge gas puff modulation (GPM) which perturbs the deuterium density and source …

[HTML][HTML] Pedestal formation via different trajectories in the stability space in response to the timing scan of neutral beam heating in DIII-D

S Banerjee, F Turco, S Mordijck, R Groebner… - Physics of …, 2025 - pubs.aip.org
The frequency of type-I ELMs decreases as the initiation of the neutral beam injection (NBI)
heating is delayed with respect to the time when plasma current (I p) reaches flat-top in the …

Multimodal Super-Resolution: Discovering hidden physics and its application to fusion plasmas

A Jalalvand, SK Kim, J Seo, Q Hu, M Curie… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
A non-linear system governed by multi-spatial and multi-temporal physics scales cannot be
fully understood with a single diagnostic, as each provides only a partial view, leading to …

HL‐2A's ELM cycle simulations by integrating BOUT++'s drift MHD and transport code

X Xu, Z Wang, N Li, N Wu, Y Zhou… - … to Plasma Physics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A new integrating model has been developed to couple tokamak edge multiscale
magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) events and transport simulations, such as edge‐localized …

[ΒΙΒΛΙΟ][B] Comprehensive dynamic analysis of the H-mode pedestal in DIII-D

AO Nelson - 2021 - search.proquest.com
The H-mode pedestal, characterized by steep gradients and reduced transport, is an
essential feature of tokamak plasmas that couples the cold Scrape-Off-Layer (SOL) to the …

Modeling of Boundary Transport and Divertor Target Heat Flux-Implications for Advanced Divertor Concepts

SB Ballinger - 2022 - dspace.mit.edu
Tokamaks are currently being designed and built to achieve net positive unharnessed fusion
energy, an important milestone on the path to electricity production. Experimental trends …

Perturbative Determination of Plasma Microinstabilities in Tokamaks

AO Nelson, FM Laggner, A Diallo, ZA **ng… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Recently, theoretical analysis has identified plasma microinstabilities as the primary
mechanism responsible for anomalous heat transport in tokamaks. In particular, the …