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Although tokamaks are one of the most promising devices for realizing nuclear fusion as an energy source, there are still key obstacles when it comes to understanding the dynamics of the plasma and controlling it. As such, it is crucial…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Ian Char , Youngseog Chung , Joseph Abbate , Egemen Kolemen , Jeff Schneider

Model-based plasma scenario development lies at the heart of the design and operation of future fusion powerplants. Including turbulent transport in integrated models is essential for delivering a successful roadmap towards operation of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-16 L. Zanisi , A. Ho , T. Madula , J. Barr , J. Citrin , S. Pamela , J. Buchanan , F. Casson , V. Gopakumar , JET contributors

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

During the operation of tokamak devices, addressing the thermal load issues caused by Edge Localized Modes (ELMs) eruption is crucial. Ideally, mitigation and suppression measures for ELMs should be promptly initiated as soon as the first…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Meihuizi He , Songfen Liu , Fan Xia , Zongyu Yang , Wulyu Zhong

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

The success of reinforcement learning (RL)-based control in tokamaks, an emerging technique for controlled nuclear fusion with improved flexibility, typically requires substantial interaction with a simulator capable of accurately evolving…

A lumped parameter model for tokamak plasma current and inductance time evolution as function of plasma resistance, non-inductive current drive sources and boundary voltage or poloidal field (PF) coil current drive is presented. The model…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-03-28 J. A. Romero , JET-EFDA Contributors

We present a fast and accurate data-driven surrogate model for divertor plasma detachment prediction leveraging the latent feature space concept in machine learning research. Our approach involves constructing and training two neural…

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

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…

The safe operation of tokamak reactors requires a reliable modeling capability of disruptions, and in particular the spatio-temporal dynamics of associated runaway electron currents. In a disruption, instabilities can break up magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 István Pusztai , Mathias Hoppe , Oskar Vallhagen

Tokamak start-up is characterized by low electron densities and strong electric fields, in order to quickly raise the plasma current and temperature, allowing the plasma to fully ionize and magnetic flux surfaces to form. Such conditions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-06-30 M. Hoppe , I. Ekmark , E. Berger , T. Fülöp

The plasma discharges in ADITYA Upgrade Tokamak are produced by means of transformer action, in which Ohmically created plasma is driven by means of a secondary loop voltage. Due to reduction of plasma resistivity after a certain level of…

AI models have demonstrated strong predictive capabilities for various tokamak instabilities--including tearing modes (TM), ELMs, and disruptive event--but their opaque nature raises concerns about safety and trustworthiness when applied to…

The edge plasma turbulence and transport dynamics, as well as the divertor power loads during the thermal quench phase of tokamak disruptions are numerically investigated with BOUT++'s flux-driven, six-field electromagnetic turbulence…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Ben Zhu , Xue-qiao Xu , Xian-Zhu Tang

A model for tokamak discharge through deep learning has been done on a superconducting long-pulse tokamak (EAST). This model can use the control signals (i.e. Neutral Beam Injection (NBI), Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating (ICRH), etc) to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Chenguang Wan , Jiangang Li , Zhi Yu , Xiaojuan Liu

The JET baseline scenario is being developed to achieve high fusion performance and sustained fusion power. However, with higher plasma current and higher input power, an increase in pulse disruptivity is being observed. Although there is a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 Diogo R. Ferreira , Pedro J. Carvalho , Carlo Sozzi , Peter J. Lomas , JET Contributors

Incipient fault detection in power distribution systems is crucial to improve the reliability of the grid. However, the non-stationary nature and the inadequacy of the training dataset due to the self-recovery of the incipient fault signal,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Qiyue Li , Huan Luo , Hong Cheng , Yuxing Deng , Wei Sun , Weitao Li , Zhi Liu

The high acquisition cost and the significant demand for disruptive discharges for data-driven disruption prediction models in future tokamaks pose an inherent contradiction in disruption prediction research. In this paper, we demonstrated…

Transformer model has gained prominence as a popular deep neural network architecture for neural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) applications. However, the extensive use of nonlinear operations, like softmax, poses a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Shuai Dong , Junyi Yang , Xiaoqi Peng , Hongyang Shang , Ye Ke , Xiaofeng Yang , Hongjie Liu , Arindam Basu