C. A. Bowie R. O. Dendy M. J. Hole
The sandpile paradigm is widely used to model aspects of the phenomenology of magnetically confined fusion (MCF) plasmas, including enhanced confinement, edge pedestals and, potentially, the impulsive energy and particle release process known as ELMing. Here we identify new points of contact between ELMing and the systemwide avalanches in a sandpil…
Preprint PublishedS.C. Chapman R.O. Dendy P.T. Lang N.W. Watkins F.A. Calderon
We focus on JET plasmas in which ELMs are triggered by pellets in the presence of ELMs which occur naturally. We perform direct time domain analysis of signals from fast radial field coils and toroidal full flux azimuthal loops. These toroidally integrating signals provide simultaneous high time resolution measurements of global plasma dynamics and…
Preprint PublishedS. C. Chapman R. O. Dendy T. N. Todd N. W. Watkins F. A. Calderon J. Morris JET Contributors
A global signature of the build-up to an intrinsic edge localized mode (ELM) is found in the temporal analytic phase of signals measured in full flux azimuthal loops in the divertor region of JET. Toroidally integrating, full flux loop signals provide a global measurement proportional to the voltage induced by changes in poloidal magnetic flux; the…
PublishedS. C. Chapman R. O. Dendy T. N. Todd N. W. Watkins A. J. Webster F. Calderon J. Morris JET EFDA Contributors
A phase relationship is identified between sequential edge localized modes (ELMs) occurrence times in a set of H-mode tokamak plasmas to the voltage measured in full flux azimuthal loops in the divertor region. We focus on plasmas in the Joint European Torus where a steady H-mode is sustained over several seconds, during which ELMs are observed in …
PublishedA.J. Webster R.O. Dendy F.A. Calderon S. C. Chapman E. Delabie D. Dodt R. Felton T. N. Todd F. Maviglia J. Morris V. Riccardo B. Alper S. Brezinsek P. Coad J. Likonen M. Rubel JET EFDA Contributors
For a two week period during the Joint European Torus (JET) 2012 experimental campaign, the same high confinement plasma was repeated 151 times. The dataset was analysed to produce a probability density function (pdf) for the waiting times between edge-localised plasma instabilities (“ELMs”). The result was entirely unexpected. Instead of a smo…
PublishedF. A. Calderon R. O. Dendy S. C. Chapman A. J. Webster B. Alper et al.
Edge localised mode (ELM) measurements from reproducibly similar plasmas in the Joint European Torus (JET) tokamak, which differ only in their gas puffing rate, are analysed in terms of the pattern in the sequence of inter-ELM time intervals. It is found that the category of ELM defined empirically as type I—typically more regular, less frequent,…
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