2 papers
physics.plasm-ph2026
Hybrid kinetic-MHD simulation on the formation of runaway electron current plateau during a current quench process
Weimin Fu, Ping Zhu
Runaway electron (RE) generation is of great concern for high-current tokamak operations. A full-f particle-in-cell (PIC) model for RE dynamics has been developed and coupled with…
physics.plasm-ph2026
Minimum-q induced alternation between infernal modes and EP-driven modes in advanced tokamak configurations
Shiwei Xue, Ping Zhu, Haolong Li
For an advanced tokamak configuration in the presence of energetic particles (EPs), the dominant instability is found to alternate between infernal modes and Alfvén eigenmodes with…