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Efficient transport of high-current negative ion beams is critical for accurate plasma potential diagnostics using heavy-ion beam probe (HIBP) systems in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. However, strong space-charge effects often…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 M. Nishiura , K. Nakamura , K. Ueda , A. Shimizu , H. Takubo , M. Kanda , T. Ido , M. Okamura

A dimensionless collisionality scan has been performed in H-mode plasmas on DIII-D tokamak, with detailed measurements of intermediate-to-high wavenumber turbulence using Doppler backscattering systems. It is found that the shorter…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-17 R. Hong , T. L. Rhodes , Y. Ren , P. H. Diamond , X. Jian , L. Zeng , K. Barada , Z. Yan , G. R. McKee

High-performance fusion plasmas, requiring high pressure $\beta$, are not well-understood in stellarator-type experiments. Here, the effect of $\beta$ on ion-temperature-gradient-driven (ITG) turbulence is studied in Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X),…

The properties of low-frequency convective fluctuations and transport are investigated for the boundary region of magnetized plasmas. We employ a two-dimensional fluid model for the evolution of the global plasma quantities in a geometry…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Odd Erik Garcia , Volker Naulin , Anders Henry Nielsen , Jens Juul Rasmussen

We study transport across either a potential or a magnetic barrier which is placed on the top surface of a three-dimensional thin topological insulator (TI). For such thin TIs, the top and bottom surfaces interact via a coupling $\lambda$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Adithi Udupa , K. Sengupta , Diptiman Sen

The paper suggests certain regimes of fusion plasma with magnetic confinement, when the Larmor radius $\lambda$ and the angle $\alpha$ (determining the orientation of the local coordinates) form an analytic function $w=\lambda e^{i\alpha}$…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Alexander M. Balk

Many models for anomalous transport consider the turbulent ExB transport arising from electrostatic micro-instabilities. In this paper we investigate whether the perturbed magnetic field that is associated with such instabilities at small…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-02-28 J W Connor , R J Hastie , A Zocco

This article presents an in-depth study of the sequence of events leading to density limit disruption in J-TEXT tokamak plasmas, with an emphasis on boudary turbulent transport and the high-field-side high-density (HFSHD) front. These…

Neutral beam current drive (NBCD) on the EAST tokamak is studied by using Monte-Carlo test particle code TGCO. Phase-space structure of the steady-state fast ion distribution is examined and visualized. We find that trapped ions carry…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 Youjun Hu , Xingyuan Xu , Yunchan Hu , Kaiyang He , Jinfang Wang

The conventional approach for thermal quench mitigation in a tokamak disruption is through a high-Z impurity injection that radiates away the plasma's thermal energy before it reaches the wall. The downside is a robust Ohmic-to-runaway…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Jason Hamilton , Luis Chacon , Giannis Keramidas , Xianzhu Tang

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…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 M. V. Umansky , B. D. Dudson , T. G. Jenkins , J. R. Myra , D. N. Smithe

we report the identification of a localised current structure inside the JET plasma. It is a field aligned closed helical ribbon, carrying current in the same direction as the background current profile (co-current), rotating toroidally…

We compare the transport properties of a well-characterized hydrogen plasma for low and high current ion beams. The energy-loss of low current beams can be well understood, within the framework of current stopping power models. However, for…

The confinement of Neutral Beam Injection (NBI) particles in the presence of n=3 Resonant Magnetic Perturbations (RMPs) in 15 MA ITER DT plasmas has been studied using full orbit ASCOT simulations. Realistic NBI distribution functions, and…

Trapped ion modes (TIM) belong to the family of ion temperature gradient (ITG) modes, which are one of the important ingredients in heat turbulent transport at the ion scale in tokamak plasmas. It is essential to properly estimate their…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-16 D. Mandal , M. Lesur , E. Gravier , J. N. Sama , A. Guillevic , Y. Sarazin , X. Garbet

New method to simulate heat transport in multiphase lattice Boltzmann (LB) method is proposed. The energy transport equation needs to be solved when phase boundaries are present. Internal energy is represented by an additional set of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-29 Alexander Kupershtokh , Dmitry Medvedev , Igor Gribanov

Nonlinear local and global gyrokinetic simulations of tokamak plasmas demonstrate that turbulence-generated currents flatten the safety factor profile near low-order rational surfaces when magnetic shear is low, even when the plasma $\beta$…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Arnas Volčokas , Justin Ball , Giovanni Di Giannatale , Stephan Brunner

Impacts of isotope ion mass on trapped electron mode (TEM) driven turbulence and zonal flows in magnetically confined fusion plasmas are investigated. Gyrokinetic simulations of TEM-driven turbulence in three-dimensional magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Motoki Nakata , Masanori Nunami , Hideo Sugama , Tomo-Hiko Watanabe

This study investigates the effect of the ion-to-electron temperature ratio ($T_i/T_e$) on microturbulence driven transport in Quiescent H-mode (QH-mode) plasmas in the DIII-D tokamak. Utilizing the Gyrokinetic Toroidal Code (GTC) and the…

A first-principles scaling law, based on turbulent transport considerations, and a multi-machine database of density limit discharges from the ASDEX Upgrade, JET and TCV tokamaks, show that the increase of the boundary turbulent transport…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 M. Giacomin , A. Pau , P. Ricci , O. Sauter , T. Eich