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Polar molecules, in strong-field seeking states, can be transported and focused by an alternating sequence of electric field gradients that focus in one transverse direction while defocusing in the other. We show, by calculation and…

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The effect of neon seeding on different transport mechanisms in EAST is investigated by analyzing SOLPSITER simulations. By evaluating the agreement between experimental observations and the performed simulations, four simulations are…

The simulation of turbulence in the boundary region of a tokamak is crucial for understanding and optimizing the performance of fusion reactors. In this work, the use of low-rank linear algebra techniques is shown to enhance the efficiency…

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Microtearing instability is one of the major sources of turbulent transport in high-$\beta$ tokamaks. These modes lead to very localized transport at low-order rational magnetic field lines, and we show that flattening of the local electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Ajay C. J. , Ben McMillan , M. J. Pueschel

The characteristic profile and magnitude are predicted in theory for the neoclassical toroidal viscosity (NTV) torque induced by plasma response to the resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) in a tokamak with an edge pedestal. For a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Xingting Yan , Ping Zhu , Youwen Sun

Toroidal flow alone is generally thought to have important influence on tokamak edge pedestal stability, even though theory analysis often predicts merely a weak stabilizing effect of toroidal flow on the edge localized modes (ELMs) in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Shikui Cheng , Ping Zhu , Debabrata Banerjee

Small magnetic fluctuations ($B_1/B_0 \sim 10^{-4}$) are intrinsically present in a magnetic confinement plasma due to turbulent currents. While the perpendicular transport of particles and heat is typically dominated by fluctuations of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Kaiyu Zhang , Wladimir Zholobenko , Andreas Stegmeir , Konrad Eder , Frank Jenko

A new model of fast ion source induced by Neutral Beam Injection (NBI) in tokamaks has been implemented in the hybrid kinetic-magnetohydrodynamic code XTOR-K. This source, combined with the collisions also recently implemented, allows for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-07 F. Orain , G. Brochard , T. Nicolas , H. Lütjens , X. Garbet , R. Dumont , P. Maget

Edge-localized-mode (ELM) filaments are crucial for cross-field transport at the tokamak edge; yet, their dynamics are often analyzed using the cold-ion approximation, despite experimental data indicating that Ti~Te . This study employs a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Souvik Mondal , Nirmal Bisai , Abhijit Sen , Indranil Bandyopadhyay

Several new results in the physics of edge poloidal flows, turbulent stresses and momentum transport are reported. These are based on experiments on the HL-2A tokamak. Significant deviation from neoclassical prediction for mean poloidal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Ting Long , P. H. Diamond , Min Xu , Rui Ke , Dong Guo , the HL-2A Team

We present a generalized multinodal model for simulating particle and energy transport in toroidal plasma configurations, developed to support burning plasma analysis and reactor-scale modeling. Unlike fixed-node models, this formulation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Zefang Liu , Weston M. Stacey

The turbulent transport of impurity or minority species, as for example Tritium, is investigated in drift-Alfv\'en edge turbulence. The full effects of perpendicular and parallel convection are kept for the impurity species. The impurity…

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Tokamaks with up-down asymmetric poloidal cross-sections spontaneously rotate due to turbulent transport of momentum. In this work, we investigate the effect of the Shafranov shift on this intrinsic rotation, primarily by analyzing tokamaks…

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The edge turbulence model Hermes (Dudson et al., 2017 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 59 05401) is set up for plasma boundary simulations with an RF antenna, using parameters characteristic of a tokamak edge. Cartesian slab geometry is used…

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Gyrokinetic tokamak plasmas can exhibit intrinsic toroidal rotation driven by the residual stress. While most studies have attributed the residual stress to the parallel-momentum flux from the turbulent $\boldsymbol{E}\times\boldsymbol{B}$…

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We present a method to compute transport coefficients in molecular dynamics. Transport coefficients quantify the linear dependencies of fluxes in non-equilibrium systems subject to small external forcings. Whereas standard non-equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-17 Noé Blassel , Gabriel Stoltz

Edge shear flow and its effect on regulating turbulent transport have long been suspected to play an important role in plasmas operating near the Greenwald density limit $ n_G $. In this study, equilibrium profiles as well as the turbulent…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-18 R. Hong , G. R. Tynan , P. H. Diamond , L. Nie , D. Guo , L. Ting , R. Ke , Y. Wu , B. Yuan , M. Xu

In this work, we study the interplay between triangularity and micro-tearing turbulence using linear and nonlinear flux tube GENE simulations. We consider scenarios with negative and positive triangularity plasma shaping taken from existing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Alessandro Balestri , Justin Ball , Stefano Coda

Achieving controlled burning plasma in tokamaks requires precise regulation of external particle and energy sources to reach and maintain target core densities and temperatures. This work presents an inverse modeling approach using a…

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