C. G. Gimblett R. J. Hastie P. Helander
Edge-localized modes (ELMs) are cyclic disturbances in the outer region of tokamak plasmas that are influential in determining present and future tokamak performance. In this Letter, we outline an approach to modeling ELMs in which we envisage toroidal peeling modes initiating a Taylor relaxation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 33 , 1139 (1974)] of a tokamak out…
PublishedM. Von Hellermann R. Jaspers W. Biel A. Litnovsky O. Neubauer Et Al
A status report is given on recent joint activities on the ITER CXRS and BES diagnostic package. Expected measurement performances are reviewed as well as comprehensive discussions are led on an integral approach to the implementation of Core and Edge CXRS observation periscopes. The “first mirror” location, its operational temperature, mainten…
PublishedA. Thyagaraja K. G. McClements
Toroidal flow velocities of the order of the local sound speed and poloidal flows exceeding theoretical predictions have been observed in several tokamaks. Steady toroidal and poloidal flow effects are studied using dissipationless single-fluid and two-fluid theory, with electron inertia neglected in the latter case. An exact analytic treatment of …
PublishedP. Mantica D. Van Eester X. Garbet F. Imbeaux L. Laborde M. Mantsinen A. Marinoni D. Mazon D. Moreau N. Hawkes E. Joffrin V. Kiptily S. Pinches A. Salmi S. Sharapov A. Thyagaraja I. Voitsekhovitch P. De Vries K.-D. Zastrow
The first electron temperature modulation experiments in plasmas characterized by strong and longlasting electron and ion internal transport barriers (ITB) have been performed in JET using ion cyclotron resonance heating in mode conversion scheme. The ITB is shown to be a well localized narrow layer with low heat diffusivity, characterized by subcr…
PublishedT. Fülöp G. Pokol P. Helander M. Lisak
Magnetosonic-whistler waves may be destabilized by runaway electrons both in fusion and astrophysical plasmas. A linear instability growth rate of these waves in the presence of a runaway avalanche is calculated both perturbatively and by numerical solution of the full dispersion equation. The local threshold of the instability depends on the fract…
PublishedB. Goncalves C. Hidalgo M. A. Pedrosa R. O. Orozco E. Sanchez C. Silva
Radial profiles of the parallel-radial Reynolds stress component, proportional to the cross correlation between parallel and radial fluctuating velocities, have been measured in the plasma boundary region of the TJ-II stellarator. Experimental results show the existence of significant parallel turbulent forces at plasma densities above the threshol…
PublishedW. E. Han P. J. Karditsas
An analysis has been made of the IFMIF lithium loop activation using the time-dependent, activation, transport and deposition code, TRACT (TRansport of ACTivation). Corresponding operator dose rates have also been derived using the neutron and photon transport Monte Carlo code MCNP-4C, enabling an assessment of operator exposure, both during IFMIF …
PublishedRalf Drautz Dewey A. Murdick Duc Nguyen-Manh Xiaowang Zhou Haydn N. G. Wadley David G. Pettifor
An analytic interatomic bond-order potential BOP is derived that depends explicitly on the group number of the sp -valent element. This is achieved by generalizing the previously published BOP for group-IV elements by extrapolating from half-full occupancy using a simple envelope function for the upper bound of the bond order. This interatomic pote…
PublishedG. Y. Antar G. Counsell J.-W. Ahn
This article is dedicated to the characterization of turbulent transport in the scrape-off layer of the Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak [A. Sykes and et al. , Phys. Plasmas 8 , 2101 (2001)] as a function of the average density n L . The aim is to answer a renewed interest in this subject since the bursty character of turbulence in the scrape-off laye…
PublishedU. Fischer P. Batistoni E. Cheng R. A. Forrest T. Nishitani
The current status of nuclear data evaluations for fusion technologies is reviewed. Well-qualified data are available for neutronics and activation calculations of fusion power reactors and the next-step device ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. Major challenges for the further development of fusion nuclear data arise from …
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