A. Kirk T. O’Gorman S. Saarelma R. Scannell H.R. Wilson The Mast Team
The H-mode pedestal characteristics on MAST are measured in a variety of Connected Double Null (CDN) and Single Null Divertor (SND) discharges. In CDN discharges the edge density pedestal width in spatial co-ordinates is similar on both the high and low field sides suggesting that the width may be determined by neutral penetration. However, in SND …
PublishedA.Kirk E.Nardon R.Akers M.Bécouleta G.Detemmerman B.Dudsonb B.Hnatc Y.Q.Liu R.Martin P.Tamain D.Taylor The Mast Team
Experiments have been performed on MAST using both external (n=1,2) and internal (n=3) resonant magnetic perturbation coils. ELM suppression has not been achieved even though vacuum modelling shows that either set of coils can produce a region for which the Chirikov parameter is greater than 1 wider than that required to produce ELM suppression in …
PublishedJ. W. Connor A. Fasoli C. Hidalgo A. Kirk V. Naulin A. G. Peeters T. Tala
This workshop on transport in fusion plasmas is the thirteenth in a series. Previously they have been held under the auspices of the EU and US Transport Task Forces (TTFs), with J Connor as the EU TTF chair. However, the EU Transport Task Force has now been subsumed into the EFDA (European Fusion Development Agreement) Topical Group for Transport (…
PublishedP. Molchanov V. Rozhansky S. Voskoboynikov S. Tallents G. Counsell A. Kirk
A comparison is presented of measured and simulated parallel flows in the low field side scrape-off layer of MAST Ohmic shots. Simulations with B2SOLPS5.0 code reproduce the experimentally observed co-current rotation direction. The absolute values of the simulated Mach number are smaller than those of the measured ones; the difference might reach …
PublishedJ.W. Connor A. Kirk H.R. Wilson
Edge Localised Modes (ELMs) are periodic disturbances of the plasma periphery occurring in tokamaks with an H-mode edge transport barrier. As a result, a fraction of the plasma energy present in the confined hot edge plasma is transferred to the open field lines in the divertor region, ultimately appearing at the divertor target plates. These event…
PublishedA. Kirk B. Koch R. Scannell H. R. Wilson G. Counsell J. Dowling A. Herrmann
Edge-localized modes (ELMs) are repetitive instabilities that occur in the outer region of tokamak plasmas. This Letter provides new information on and the implications of the evolution of the filament structures observed during ELMs in the MAST tokamak. The filaments exist for the time over which particles are being released into the scrape off la…
PublishedI.T. Chapman S. Saarelma T.C. Hender S.E. Sharapov G.T.A. Huysmans A.B. Mikhailovskii H. Meyer A. Kirk H.R. Wilson
Present day tokamaks are capable of generating toroidal flows approaching the ion sound speed. Such toroidal rotation is known to have a stabilising effect on resistive wall modes[1]. Here the effects of plasma rotation and diamagnetic drifts on the n = 1 internal kink mode and high n ballooning modes are presented with specific comparison to exper…
PublishedK. G. McClements
A full orbit code is used to compute collisionless losses of fusion particles from three proposed burning plasma tokamaks: the International Tokamak Experimental Reactor ITER; a spherical tokamak power plant (STPP) [T. C. Hender, A. Bond, J. Edwards, P. J. Karditsas, K. G. McClements, J. Mustoe, D. V. Sherwood, G. M. Voss, and H. R. Wilson, Fusion …
PublishedG. Y. Antar G. Counsell J.-W. Ahn Y. Yang M. Price A. Tabasso A. Kirk
Recently, it was shown that intermittency observed in magnetic fusion devices is caused by large-scales events with high radial velocity reaching about 1/10th of the sound speed s called avaloids or blobs [G. Antar and et al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 065001 (2001)]. In the present paper, the poloidal distribution of turbulence is investigated on the M…
PublishedP. G. Carolan A. Patel N. J. Conway R. J. Akers C. A. Bunting G. F. Counsell J. Dowling M. R. Dunstan A. Kirk F. Lott M. N. Price M. R. Tournianski M. J. Walsh The Mast Team
The Mega Amp Spherical Torus ( MAST ) diagnostic needs are strongly influenced by physics goals that often require diagnostic integration and cross-mapping, especially in fine-scale investigations, such as transport barriers. Conversely, the unrivalled viewing access to the edge, scrape-off layer ( SOL ) and divertor regions, provided by the MAST o…
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