Ghassan Y. Antar Glenn Counsell Yang Yu Brian Labombard Pascal Devynck
The nature of intermittency, long observed in magnetic fusion devices, was revisited lately [G. Antar et al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 , 065001 (2001)]. It was shown that intermittency is caused by large-scale events with high radial velocity reaching about 1/10th of the sound speed. These type of structures were named ‘‘avaloids.’’ In the pres…
PublishedR. J. Akers G. F. Counsell A. Sykes L. C. Appel E. R. Arends C. Byrom P. G. Carolan N. J. Conway G. Cunningham A. Dnestrovskij Yu.N. Dnestrovskij A. R. Field S. J. Fielding M. Gryaznevich P. Helander A. Kirk S. Korsholm R. Martin H. Meye
H -mode plasmas have been achieved on the MAST spherical tokamak at input power considerably higher than predicted by conventional threshold scalings. Following L - H transition, a clear improvement in energy confinement is obtained, exceeding recent international scalings even at densities approaching the Greenwald density limit. Transition is acc…
PublishedCanh N. Nguyen Glenn Bateman Arnold H. Kritz Robert Akers Calum Byrom et al.
Integrated predictive modeling simulations are carried out using the BALDUR transport code [Singer et al. , Comput. Phys. Commun. 49 , 275 (1982)] for high confinement mode (H-mode) and low confinement mode (L-mode) discharges in the Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) [Sykes et al. , Phys. Plasmas 8 , 2101 (2001)]. Simulation results, obtained using…
PublishedA. Sykes J.-W. Ahn R. Akers E. Arends P. G. Carolan et al.
First physics results are presented from MAST (Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak), one of the new generation of purpose built spherical tokamaks (STs) now commencing operation. Some of these results demonstrate, for the first time, the novel effects of low aspect ratio, for example, the enhancement of resistivity due to neo-classical effects. H-mode is ac…
PublishedA. Sykes R. J. Akers L. C. Appel P. G. Carolan J.W. Connor N. J. Conway G. F. Counsell A. Dnestrovskij Yu.N. Dnestrovskij M. Gryaznevich P. Helander M. P. S. Nightingale C. Ribeiro C. M. Roach M. Tournianski M. J. Walsh H. R. Wilson The S
H -mode operation has been achieved in high current I p . 200 kA plasmas in the START spherical tokamak for both neutral-beam-injection-heated and Ohmic discharges. The transition to H mode features the development of well-defined edge pedestals in density and temperature, which signifies the formation of an edge-transport barrier, and associated e…
PublishedD. A. Gates R. Akers L. Appel P. G. Carolan N. Conway et al.
The Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak (START) [A. Sykes et al., Nucl. Fusion 32, 769 (1994)] spherical tokamak has recently achieved the record value of toroidal beta~30% in a tokamak-like configuration. The improvements that have made these results possible are presented along with a description of the global equilibrium parameters of the discharge…
PublishedAlan Sykes
The world’s first high-power auxiliary heating experiments in a tight aspect ratio (or spherical) tokamak have been performed on the Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokomak (START) device [Sykes et al. , Nucl. Fusion 32 , 694 (1992)] at Culham Laboratory, using the 40 keV, 0.5 MW Neutral Beam Injector loaned by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Injecti…
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