Conference Papers

S.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…