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most citedThe JOREK non-linear extended MHD code and applications to large-scale instabilities and their control in magnetically confined fusion plasmas

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physics.plasm-ph2026

SPECTRE: A robust solver for 3D equilibria with arbitrary topology

E. Balkovic, J. Loizu, E. Lanti +6

We present SPECTRE, a new equilibrium code based on the Multi-Region relaxed MHD model for robustly calculating 3D equilibria with general magnetic topology, allowing for flux surf…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Flux pumping and bifurcated relaxations of helical core in 3D magnetohydrodynamic modelling of ASDEX Upgrade plasmas

H. Zhang, M. Hoelzl, I. Krebs +12

Flux pumping was achieved in recent hybrid scenario experiments in the ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) tokamak, which is characterized by a sawtooth-free helical quiescent state and the anomal…

physics.plasm-ph2025

A comparison of low-n Mercier unstable Wendelstein stellarators and quasi-interchange modes in tokamaks

Rohan Ramasamy, Haowei Zhang, Joachim Geiger +5

Mercier's criterion is typically enforced as a hard operational limit in stellarator design. At the same time, past experimental and numerical studies have shown that this limit ma…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Quantitative Magnetohydrodynamic Modelling of Flux Pumping in ASDEX Upgrade

Haowei Zhang, Matthias Hölzl, Isabel Krebs +9

The sawtooth-free hybrid scenario has been achieved recently in ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) with applied non-inductive current sources and auxiliary heating [A. Burckhart et al 2023 Nucl.…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Nonlinear MHD modeling of soft limits in W7-AS

Rohan Ramasamy, Ksenia Aleynikova, Nikita Nikulsin +5

An important question for the outlook of stellarator reactors is their robustness against pressure driven modes, and the underlying mechanism behind experimentally observed soft $β…

physics.plasm-ph2021

Nonlinear MHD simulations of external kinks in quasi-axisymmetric stellarators using an axisymmetric external rotational transform approximation

Rohan Ramasamy, Matthias Hoelzl, Erika Strumberger +2

Reduced magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations are used to study the nonlinear dynamics of external kinks in a quasi-axisymmetric (QA) stellarator with varying fractions of external r…