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In this paper, we present a new static and time-dependent MagnetoHydroDynamic (MHD) equilibrium code, TokaMaker, for axisymmetric configurations of magnetized plasmas, based on the well-known Grad-Shafranov equation. This code utilizes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 C. Hansen , I. G. Stewart , D. Burgess , M. Pharr , S. Guizzo , F. Logak , A. O. Nelson , C. Paz-Soldan

In tokamak experiments, sufficiently strong $E\times B$ flow shear reduces turbulent transport, thereby improving the prospects for fusion power plants. It is therefore of great importance to efficiently explore parameter space to find…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Haomin Sun , Justin Ball , Stephan Brunner , Arnas Volčokas

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the TRANSP code, a sophisticated tool for interpretive and predictive analysis of tokamak plasmas, detailing its major capabilities and features. It describes the equations for particle, power,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 A. Y Pankin , J. Breslau , M. Gorelenkova , R. Andre , B. Grierson , J. Sachdev , M. Goliyad , G. Perumpilly

The most promising concepts for power and particle control in tokamaks and other fusion experiments rely upon atomic processes to transfer the power and momentum from the edge plasma to the plasma chamber walls. This places a new emphasis…

plasm-ph · Physics 2009-10-28 D. E. Post

Solenoid-free tokamak startup techniques are essential for spherical tokamaks and offer a pathway to cost reduction and design simplification in fusion energy systems. Local helicity injection (LHI) is one such approach, employing compact…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 C. E. Schaefer , A. C. Sontag , N. M. Ferraro , J. D. Weberski , S. J. Diem

We present TTCF4LAMMPS, a toolkit for performing non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulations to study fluid behaviour at low shear rates using the LAMMPS software. By combining direct NEMD simulations and the transient-time…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-07 Luca Maffioli , James P. Ewen , Edward R. Smith , Sleeba Varghese , Peter J. Daivis , Daniele Dini , B. D. Todd

Phase-field modeling is an elegant and versatile computation tool to predict microstructure evolution in materials in the mesoscale regime. However, these simulations require rigorous numerical solutions of differential equations, which are…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-08 Owais Ahmad , Naveen Kumar , Rajdip Mukherjee , Somnath Bhowmick

A general methodology is proposed to differentiate the likelihood of energetic-particle-driven instabilities to produce frequency chirping or fixed-frequency oscillations. The method employs numerically calculated eigenstructures and…

In general-purpose particle detectors, the particle-flow algorithm may be used to reconstruct a comprehensive particle-level view of the event by combining information from the calorimeters and the trackers, significantly improving the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-06-10 Joosep Pata , Javier Duarte , Jean-Roch Vlimant , Maurizio Pierini , Maria Spiropulu

We present an ultrafast neural network (NN) model, QLKNN, which predicts core tokamak transport heat and particle fluxes. QLKNN is a surrogate model based on a database of 300 million flux calculations of the quasilinear gyrokinetic…

Solving the electronic Schr\"odinger equation for strongly correlated systems remains one of the grand challenges in quantum chemistry. Here we demonstrate that Transformer architectures can be adapted to capture the complex grammar of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Huan Ma , Bowen Kan , Honghui Shang , Jinlong Yang

The spatio-temporal evolution of the energetic particles in the transport time scale in tokamak plasmas is a key issue of the plasmas confinement, especially in burning plasmas. In order to include sources and sinks and collisional slowing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Guo Meng , Philipp Lauber , Zhixin Lu , Andreas Bergmann , Mirelle Schneider

A new parallel equilibrium reconstruction code for tokamak plasmas is presented. GPEC allows to compute equilibrium flux distributions sufficiently accurate to derive parameters for plasma control within 1 ms of runtime which enables…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 Markus Rampp , Roland Preuss , Rainer Fischer , the ASDEX Upgrade Team

The goal of this paper is to understand from a mathematical point of view the magnetic confinement of plasmas for fusion. Following Fr\'enod and Sonnendr\"ucker \cite{FS2}, we first use two-scale convergence tools to derive a gyrokinetic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-20 Daniel Han-Kwan

This article reports the development of a versatile high-speed reciprocating drive system (HRDS) with interchangeable probe heads to characterize the edge plasma region of ADITYA-U tokamak. This reciprocating probe drive system consisting…

Designing large-scale geological carbon capture and storage projects and ensuring safe long-term CO2 containment - as a climate change mitigation strategy - requires fast and accurate numerical simulations. These simulations involve solving…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Ryuichi Sai , Mathias Jacquelin , François P. Hamon , Mauricio Araya-Polo , Randolph R. Settgast

The Trapped Gyro-Landau Fluid (TGLF) model provides fast, accurate predictions of turbulent transport in tokamaks, but whole device simulations requiring thousands of evaluations remain computationally expensive. Neural network (NN)…

The particle-flow (PF) algorithm provides a global event description by reconstructing final-state particles and is central to event reconstruction in CMS. Recently, end-to-end machine learning (ML) approaches have been proposed to directly…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-29 Farouk Mokhtar

Various MHD (magnetohydrodynamic) equilibrium tools, some of which being recently developed or considerably updated, are used on the COMPASS tokamak at IPP Prague. MHD equilibrium is a fundamental property of the tokamak plasma, whose…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-12-08 J. Urban , L. C. Appel , J. F. Artaud , B. Faugeras , J. Havlicek , M. Komm , I. Lupelli , M. Peterka

The Multifaceted Asymmetric Radiation From the Edge (MARFE) is a critical plasma instability that often precedes density-limit disruptions in tokamaks, posing a significant risk to machine integrity and operational efficiency. Early and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Qianyun Dong , Rongpeng Li , Zongyu Yang , Fan Xia , Liang Liu , Zhifeng Zhao , Wulyu Zhong