JW Berkery SA Sabbagh L Kogan S Gibson D Ryan V Zamkovska J Butt J Harrison S Henderson MAST-U team
The MAST-U fusion plasma research device, the upgrade to the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak, has recently completed its first campaign of physics operation. MAST-U operated with Ohmic, or one or two neutral beams for heating, at 400-800 kA plasma current, in conventional or “SuperX” divertor configurations. Equilibrium reconstructions provide key p…
PreprintJ. W. Berkery S. A. Sabbagh L. Kogan D. Ryan J. M. Bialek Y. Jiang D. J. Battaglia S. Gibson C. Ham
Reconstructions of plasma equilibria using magnetic sensors and a Dα constraint were routine during operation of the MAST spherical tokamak, but reconstructions using kinetic profiles was not. These are necessary for stability and disruption analysis of the MAST database, as well as going forward for operation in the upgrade to the device, MAST…
Preprint PublishedS.A. Sabbagh J.W. Berkery A. Kirk Y.S. Park J.H. Ahn J.M. Bialek Y. Jiang J.D. Riquezes J.G. Bak K. Erickson A.H. Glasser C. Ham J. Hollocombe J. Kim J. Ko W.H. Ko L. Kogan J.H. Lee A. Thornton S.W. Yoon Z.R. Wang
Disruption prediction and avoidance is critical in ITER and reactor-scale tokamaks to maintain steady plasma operation and to avoid damage to device components. The present status and results from the physics-based disruption event characterization and forecasting (DECAF) research effort are shown for multiple tokamak devices. Present analysis of K…
Preprint PublishedJ.W. Berkery S.A. Sabbagh J. Bialek
Disruption prediction and avoidance is necessary in future MAST-U spherical tokamak discharges to enable long-pulse plasma operation. Research examining the stability of plasmas in the MAST database utilizing proposed high quality kinetic equilibrium reconstructions and calculations with various codes, including the Disruption Event Characterizatio…
Preprint PublishedS.A. Sabbagh J.W. Berkery Y.S. Park J.H. Ahn Y. Jiang J.D. Riquezes J.G. Bak R.E. Bell M.D. Boyer L. Delgado-Aparicio A.H. Glasser J. Hollocombe J. Kim A. Kirk J. Ko W. Ko L. Kogan B.P. LeBlanc J.H. Lee C.E. Myers L. Terzolo A. Thornton S.W. Yoon
Disruption prediction and avoidance is a critical need for next-step tokamaks such as ITER. The Disruption Event Characterization and Forecasting Code (DECAF) is used to fully automate analysis of tokamak data to determine chains of events that lead to disruptions and to forecast their evolution allowing sufficient time for mitigation or full av…
PreprintJ. W. Berkery Y. Q. Liu Z. R. Wang S. A. Sabbagh N. C. Logan J.-K. Park J. Manickam R. Betti
Validating the calculations of kinetic resistive wall mode (RWM) stability is important for confidently predicting RWM stable operating regions in ITER and other high performance tokamaks for disruption avoidance. Benchmarking the calculations of the Magnetohydrodynamic Resistive Spectrum—Kinetic (MARS-K) [Y. Liu et al., Phys. Plasmas 15, 112503 …
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