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Publications (11)

physics.plasm-ph2021

Validation of edge turbulence codes against the TCV-X21 diverted L-mode reference case

D. S. Oliveira, T. Body, D. Galassi +27

Self-consistent full-size turbulent-transport simulations of the divertor and SOL of existing tokamaks have recently become feasible. This enables the direct comparison of turbulen…

physics.plasm-ph2026

The power exhaust constrained SPARC separatrix operational space

B. Lomanowski, T. Eich, J. D. Lore +3

In this work we extrapolate the separatrix operational space (SepOS) projections to SPARC and introduce detachment access criteria, thus formulating the combined power exhaust cons…

physics.plasm-ph2023

Reduced model for H-mode sustainment in unfavorable drift configuration in ASDEX Upgrade

O. Grover, T. Eich, P. Manz +6

A recently developed reduced model of H-mode sustainment based on interchange-drift-Alfvén turbulence description in the vicinity of the separatrix matching experimental observati…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Accelerating integrated modeling with surrogate-based optimization: the MAESTRO workflow

P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, N. T. Howard, J. Hall +14

This paper introduces the MAESTRO workflow, that enables the coupling of the PORTALS framework [P. Rodriguez-Fernandez et al, Nucl. Fusion 2024] with external solvers for the plasm…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Impact of model uncertainty on SPARC operating scenario predictions with empirical modeling

A. Saltzman, P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, T. Body +2

Understanding and accounting for uncertainty helps to ensure next-step tokamaks such as SPARC will robustly achieve their goals. While traditional Plasma OPerating CONtour (POPCON)…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Determination of confinement regime boundaries via separatrix parameters on Alcator C-Mod based on a model for interchange-drift-Alfvén turbulence

M. A. Miller, J. W. Hughes, T. Eich +13

The separatrix operational space (SepOS) model [Eich \& Manz, \emph{Nuclear Fusion} (2021)] is shown to predict the L-H transition, the L-mode density limit, and the ideal MHD ball…