James Harrison RJ Akers SY Allan JS Allcock JO Allen L Appel M Barnes N Ben Ayed W Boeglin C Bowman J Bradley P Browning P Bryant M Carr M Cecconello CD Challis S Chapman IT Chapman GJ Colyer S Conroy NJ Conway M Cox G Cunningham RO Dendy W Dorland BD Dudson L Easy SD Elmore T Farley X Feng AR Field A Fil GM Fishpool M Fitzgerald
Recent results from MAST address key physics issues for ITER operations and the design of future devices, by advancing our understanding of through analysis of high-resolution data and numerical modelling. Modelling of the interaction between filaments with BOUT++ indicates filaments separated by more than 5x their width move independently, and …
Preprint PublishedP.K. Browning A. Stanier G. Ashworth K.G. McClements V.S. Lukin
Merging-compression start-up in the Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak provides an opportunity to investigate the merging of flux ropes through magnetic reconnection, and the self-organization into a single flux rope, in a low-plasma-ß, high-Lundquist-number plasma. We present an overview of simulations of this process using the compressible Hall-MHD e…
PublishedA. Stanier P. Browning M. Gordovskyy K. G. McClements M. P. Gryaznevich V. S. Lukin
In the merging-compression method of plasma start-up, two flux-ropes with parallel toroidal current are formed around in-vessel poloidal field coils, before merging to form a spherical tokamak plasma. This start-up method, used in the Mega-Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST), is studied as a high Lundquist number and low plasma-beta magnetic reconnecti…
PublishedY. Liang C. G. Gimblett P. K. Browning P. Devoy H. R. Koslowski S. Jachmich Y. Sun C. Wiegmann
Multiple resonances in the edge-localized mode (ELM) frequency (f ELM ) as a function of the edge safety factor q 95 have been observed for the first time with an applied low n (1/41; 2) field on the JET tokamak. Without an n 1/4 1 field applied, f ELM increases slightly from 20 to 30 Hz by varying the q 95 from 4 to 5 in a type-I ELMy H-mode plasm…
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