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Designing superconducting coils for a tokamak fusion device is a highly coupled, non-linear design problem. The coils have many disparate engineering requirements from structural to power electronics, as well strict limits placed on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Nathan Welch , Chris Marsden

The real-time reconstruction of the plasma magnetic equilibrium in a Tokamak is a key point to access high performance regimes. Indeed, the shape of the plasma current density profile is a direct output of the reconstruction and has a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-27 Didier Mazon , Jacques Blum , Cédric Boulbe , Blaise Faugeras , A. Boboc , M. Brix , P. De Vries , S. Sharapov , L. Zabeo

Extended magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of tokamak plasmas regularly produce outputs in multi-dimensional, multiple-field formats; these code-specific formats make it difficult to do cross-code validation/coupling and analyze at a…

We have trained a fully convolutional spatio-temporal model for fast and accurate representation learning in the challenging exemplar application area of fusion energy plasma science. The onset of major disruptions is a critically important…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Ge Dong , Kyle Gerard Felker , Alexey Svyatkovskiy , William Tang , Julian Kates-Harbeck

Real time control of many plasma parameters will be an essential aspect in the development of reliable high performance operation of Next Step Tokamaks. The main prerequisites for any feedback scheme are the precise real-time determination…

The understanding of cross-field transport is crucial in order to optimize the properties of magnetic confinement in modern fusion devices. In this work, a two-dimensional, simplified model is used to study the turbulent dynamics in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 L. Scarivaglione , F. Valentini , S. Servidio

We investigate the ExB diffusion of fusion born \alpha particles in tokamak plasmas. We determine the transport regimes for a realistic model that has the characteristics of the ion temperature gradient (ITG) or of the trapped electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 A. Croitoru , D. I. Palade , M Vlad , F Spineanu

Equilibrium reconstruction, which infers internal magnetic fields, plasmas current, and pressure distributions in tokamaks using diagnostic and coil current data, is crucial for controlled magnetic confinement nuclear fusion research.…

A free-boundary, axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium code, pyIPREQ, has been developed for Tokamak plasmas using finite difference and Green's function approach. The code builds upon the foundational frameworks of the PEST…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Udaya Maurya , Amit K. Singh , Suman Aich , Jagabandhu Kumar , Rohit Kumar , Daniel Raju

Recent development of real-time equilibrium code Equinox [1] using a fixed-point algorithm [2] allow major plasma magnetic parameters to be identified in real-time, using rigorous analytical method. The code relies on the boundary flux code…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Krzysztof Bosak , Jacques Blum , Emmanuel Joffrin

The confinement of plasmas in tokamaks and stellarators depends on magnetic field lines lying in nested toroidal surfaces. The transition near the plasma edge away from the lines lying in magnetic surfaces defines properties of divertors.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Allen H Boozer

Development and operation of commercially viable fusion energy reactors such as tokamaks require accurate predictions of plasma dynamics from sparse, noisy, and incomplete sensors readings. The complexity of the underlying physics and the…

Built around the SMARDDA modules for magnetic field-line tracing [IEEE Tr. Plasma Sc. 42 (2014) 1932], the SMITER code package (SMARDDA for ITER) is a new graphical user interface (GUI) framework for power deposition mapping on tokamak…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 L. Kos , R. A. Pitts , G. Simic , M. Brank , H. Anand , W. Arter

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

Reduction of the peak heat loads on the plasma facing components is essential for the success of the next generation of high fusion power tokamaks such as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) 1 . Many present concepts…

plasm-ph · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Post , J. Abdallah , R. E. H. Clark , N. Putvinskaya

Avoidance of the harmful effects of runaway electrons (REs) in plasma-terminating disruptions is pivotal in the design of safety systems for magnetic fusion devices. Here, we describe a computationally efficient numerical tool, that allows…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 M. Hoppe , O. Embreus , T. Fülöp

Most tokamak devices including ITER exploit the D-T reaction due to its high reactivity, but the wall loading caused by the associated 14MeV neutrons will limit the further development of fusion performance at high beta. To explore p-11B…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-17 Jianqing Cai , Huasheng Xie , Yang Li , Michel Tuszewski , Hongbin Zhou , Peipei Chen

We present TokaMind, an open-source foundation model framework for fusion plasma modeling, based on a Multi-Modal Transformer (MMT) and trained on heterogeneous tokamak diagnostics from the publicly available MAST dataset. TokaMind supports…

The effects of resonant magnetic perturbations on the turbulent transport of fast ions in tokamak devices are investigated using a theoretical transport model of test-particle type. The direct numerical simulation method is used to compute,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 D. I. Palade

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…