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The drift wave in the presence of impurity ions was investigated numerically in reversed field pinch (RFP) plasmas, using the gyrokinetic integral eigenmode equation. It was found that in RFP plasmas with hollow density profiles, an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Jingchun Li , Songfen Liu , Yilong Zhang , Jiaqi Dong , Wei Kong

The stochastic advection of low energy deuterium ions is studied in a three dimensional realistic turbulence model in conditions relevant for current tokamak fusion experiments. The diffusion coefficients are calculated starting from the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-07-28 A. Croitoru

In this paper, an overview of the impurity transport for three H-mode plasmas in the upcoming SPARC tokamak has been provided. The simulations have been performed within the ASTRA+STRAHL framework, using FACIT and TGLF-SAT2 to predict,…

Numerical simulations of the interchange plasma turbulence in the presence of medium-Z impurities (N2 , Ne, Ar) seeding have been performed using BOUT++. These simulation results are used to study the impurity transport mechanism in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Shrish Raj , Nirmal Bisai , Vijay Shankar , Abhijit Sen

In this paper, the turbulent transport properties of ST40 hot ion plasmas are examined and fully predictive time evolving modelling of a hot ion plasma pulse was performed. Understanding turbulent transport on spherical tokamaks (STs) is…

The transport of heat out of tokamak plasmas by turbulence is the dominant mechanism limiting the performance of fusion reactors. Turbulence can be driven by the ion temperature gradient (ITG) and suppressed by toroidal sheared flows.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 Ferdinand van Wyk

The ITG and TEM instabilities with quasi-coherent spectra have been identified experimentally, by the newly developed far-forward collective scattering measurements in J-TEXT tokamak Ohmical plasmas. The ITG mode has characteristic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Peng Shi , J. C. Li , G. Zhuang , Zhifeng Cheng , Li Gao , Yinan Zhou

The turbulent transport of minority species/impurities is investigated in 2D drift-wave turbulence as well as in 3D toroidal drift-Alfven edge turbulence. The full effects of perpendicular and -- in 3D -- parallel advection are kept for the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Volker Naulin , Martin Priego Wood , Jens Juul Rasmussen

The understanding of the mechanisms responsible for particle transport is of the utmost importance for magnetized fusion plasmas. A peaked density profile is attractive to improve the fusion rate, which is proportional to the square of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Clarisse Bourdelle , Tuong G. Hoang , Xavier Garbet

We present a numerical study of collisional transport in a tokamak pedestal in the presence of non-trace impurities, using the radially global $\delta f$ neoclassical solver PERFECT [M. Landreman et al. 2014 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 56…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 I. Pusztai , S. Buller , M. Landreman

Ion temperature gradient(ITG) and trapped electron modes(TEM) driven turbulent transport in an ITER-like plasma is investigated by means of multi-species gyrokinetic Vlasov simulations with D, T, He, and real-mass kinetic electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Motoki Nakata , Mitsuru Honda

We investigate the transport behavior of tungsten impurities with finite inertia in drift-wave turbulence using the Hasegawa-Wakatani model. Unlike previous tracer-based models, our simulations reveal a transition to non-diffusive dynamics…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Zetao Lin , Benjamin Kadoch , Sadruddin Benkadda , Kai Schneider

Wave-particle interaction in toroidal plasmas is an essential transport mechanism in drift wave instability-driven microturbulence. In tokamkas, different wave-particle resonance conditions have been found important for the energy and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Ge Dong , Zhihong Lin

A potential threat to the performance of magnetically confined fusion plasmas is the problem of impurity accumulation, which causes the concentration of highly charged impurity ions to rise uncontrollably in the center of the plasma and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Per Helander , Sarah L. Newton , Albert Mollén , Håkan M. Smith

A burning fusion plasma has a large inwards flux of fuel and outwards flux of ash. Existing impurity transport theories do not account for a steady-state environment of such large fluxes. In this paper, we extend classical transport theory…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 E. Litvinova Mitra , E. J. Kolmes , I. E. Ochs , M. E. Mlodik , T. Rubin , N. J. Fisch

The accumulation of impurities in the core of magnetically confined plasmas, resulting from standard collisional transport mechanisms, is a known threat to their performance as fusion energy sources. Whilst the axisymmetric tokamak systems…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Sarah L. Newton , Per Helander , Albert Mollén , Håkan M. Smith

During disruptions in fusion-grade tokamaks like ITER, large electric fields are induced following the thermal quench (TQ) period which can generate a substantial amount of Runaway Electrons (REs) that can carry up to 10 MA current with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Ansh Patel , Santosh P. Pandya

The presence of impurities is considered in gyrokinetic calculations of ion temperature gradient (ITG) instabilities and turbulence in the reversed field pinch device RFX-mod. This device usually exhibits hollow Carbon/Oxygen profiles,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 I. Predebon , L. Carraro , C. Angioni

Differential rotation is known to suppress linear instabilities in fusion plasmas. However, even in the absence of growing eigenmodes, subcritical fluctuations that grow transiently can lead to sustained turbulence. Here transient growth of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 A. A. Schekochihin , E. G. Highcock , S. C. Cowley

Recent nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations have shown that impurities can strongly modify the turbulent heat flux in stellarator plasmas. Here, the ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) dispersion relation in a plasma containing impurities is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Ivan Calvo , Felix I. Parra , Hanne Thienpondt , Jose Manuel Garcia-Regaña