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Disruption prediction has made rapid progress in recent years, especially in machine learning (ML)-based methods. Understanding why a predictor makes a certain prediction can be as crucial as the prediction's accuracy for future tokamak…

Predicting disruptions across different tokamaks is a great obstacle to overcome. Future tokamaks can hardly tolerate disruptions at high performance discharge. Few disruption discharges at high performance can hardly compose an abundant…

Plasma disruption presents a significant challenge in tokamak fusion, where it can cause severe damage and economic losses. Current disruption predictors mainly rely on data-driven methods, requiring extensive discharge data for training.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Xinkun Ai

Next generation high performance (HP) tokamaks risk damage from unmitigated disruptions at high current and power. Achieving reliable disruption prediction for a device's HP operation based on its low performance (LP) data is key to…

In the initial stages of operation for future tokamak, facing limited data availability, deploying data-driven disruption predictors requires optimal performance with minimal use of new device data. This paper studies the issue of data…

The tokamak offers a promising path to fusion energy, but plasma disruptions pose a major economic risk, motivating considerable advances in disruption avoidance. This work develops a reinforcement learning approach to this problem by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Allen M. Wang , Oswin So , Charles Dawson , Darren T. Garnier , Cristina Rea , Chuchu Fan

When a plasma disrupts in a tokamak, significant heat and electromagnetic loads are deposited onto the surrounding device components. These forces scale with plasma current and magnetic field strength, making disruptions one of the key…

Effective tokamak disruption mitigation is crucial for ensuring the safety and integrity of fusion power reactors. Accurate collisional-radiative (CR) modeling of a radiative plasma is a critical component in predictive disruption…

Plasma disruptions represent a critical challenge for high-performance tokamak operations, as they can compromise machine integrity and reduce operational availability. Although future fusion devices essentially need to incorporate…

Disruption prediction and mitigation is of key importance in the development of sustainable tokamakreactors. Machine learning has become a key tool in this endeavour. In this paper multiple machinelearning models will be tested and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Joost Croonen , Jorge Amaya , Giovanni Lapenta

In this paper, we present a new deep learning disruption prediction algorithm based on important findings from explorative data analysis which effectively allows knowledge transfer from existing devices to new ones, thereby predicting…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 J. X. Zhu , C. Rea , K. Montes , R. S. Granetz , R. Sweeney , R. A. Tinguely

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

Grid decarbonization for climate change requires dispatchable carbon-free energy like nuclear fusion. The tokamak concept offers a promising path for fusion, but one of the foremost challenges in implementation is the occurrence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 William F Arnold , Lucas Spangher , Christina Rea

The full understanding of plasma disruption in tokamaks is currently lacking, and data-driven methods are extensively used for disruption prediction. However, most existing data-driven disruption predictors employ supervised learning…

A control oriented, lumped parameter model for the tokamak transformer including the slow flux penetration in the plasma (skin effect transformer model) is presented. The model does not require detailed or explicit information about plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. A. Romero , J. -M. Moret , S. Coda , F. Felici , I. Garrido

Disruption in tokamak plasmas, stemming from various instabilities, poses a critical challenge, resulting in detrimental effects on the associated devices. Consequently, the proactive prediction of disruptions to maintain stability emerges…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-21 Jinsu Kim , Jeongwon Lee , Jaemin Seo , Young-Chul Ghim , Yeongsun Lee , Yong-Su Na

The physical sciences require models tailored to specific nuances of different dynamics. In this work, we study outcome predictions in nuclear fusion tokamaks, where a major challenge are \textit{disruptions}, or the loss of plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-02 Lucas Spangher , William Arnold , Alexander Spangher , Andrew Maris , Cristina Rea

Disruptions in tokamak plasmas, marked by sudden thermal and current quenches, pose serious threats to plasma-facing components and system integrity. Accurate early prediction, with sufficient lead time before disruption onset, is vital to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Jyoti Agarwal , Bhaskar Chaudhury , Jaykumar Navadiya , Shrichand Jakhar , Manika Sharma

In this work, a purely data-driven discharge prediction model was developed and tested without integrating any data or results from simulations. The model was developed based on the experimental data from the Experimental Advanced…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Chenguang Wan , Zhi Yu , Alessandro Pau , Xiaojuan Liu , Jiangang Li

We derive an advanced surrogate model for predicting turbulent transport at the edge of tokamaks driven by electron temperature gradient (ETG) modes.Our derivation is based on a recently developed sensitivity-driven sparse grid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Ionut-Gabriel Farcas , Gabriele Merlo , Frank Jenko
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