A. Kirk A.J. Thornton J.R. Harrison F. Militello N.R. Walkden The MAST Team The EUROfusion MST1 Team
Clear filamentary structures are observed at the edge of tokamak plasmas. These filaments are ejected out radially and carry plasma in the far Scrape Off Layer (SOL) region, where they are responsible for producing most of the transport. A study has been performed of the characteristics of the filaments observed in L-mode plasma on MAST, using visi…
Preprint PublishedS.Y. Allan S. Elmore G. Fishpool B. Dudson The MAST Team The EUROFusion MST1 Team
Retarding field energy analysers (RFEAs) have been used to compare the ion temperature ( T i ) of large plasma filaments with the background plasma (composed of small scale filaments) at the midplane and divertor target in L mode discharges in the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST). At low densities, at the midplane and divertor, at distances from 2…
Preprint PublishedM. Valovič P.T. Lang A. Kirk W. Suttrop M. Cavedon G. Cseh M. Dunne L.R. Fischer L. Garzotti L. Guimarais G. Kocsis A. Mlynek B. Plőckl R. Scannell T. Szepesi G. Tardini A. Thornton E. Viezzer E. Wolfrum The ASDEX Upgrade team The EUROfusion MST1 team
The complete refuelling of the plasma density loss (pump-out) caused by mitigation of Edge Localised Modes (ELMs) is demonstrated on the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak. The plasma is refuelled by injection of frozen deuterium pellets and ELMs are mitigated by external resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs). In this experiment relevant dimensionless paramete…
Preprint PublishedY. Liu D. Ryan A. Kirk L. Li W. Suttrop M. Dunne R. Fischer J.C. Fuchs B. Kurzan P. Piovesan M. Willensdorfer The ASDEX Upgrade team The EUROfusion MST1 team
The plasma response to the vacuum resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) fields, produced by the ELM control coils in ASDEX Upgrade experiments, is computationally modelled using the MARS-F/K codes [Liu Y.Q. et al 2000 Phys. Plasmas 7 3681; Liu Y.Q. et al 2008 Phys. Plasmas 15 112503]. A systematic investigation is carried out, considering various pl…
Preprint PublishedA.J. Thornton G. Fishpool A. Kirk The MAST Team The EUROfusion MST1 Team
Filamentary transport across the scrape off layer is a key issue for the design and operation of future devices, such as ITER, DEMO and MAST-U, as it sets the power loadings to the divertor and first wall of the machine. Analysis has been performed on L mode filaments in MAST in order to gain an understanding of the spatial structure and attempt to…
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