3 papers
physics.plasm-ph2026
Robust Control of ECH Deposition Profiles on DIII-D
A. Rothstein, H. J. Farre-Kaga, K. Yasoda +5
Electron Cyclotron Heating (ECH) is a key actuator in DIII-D and future tokamaks that provides auxiliary heating, localized current drive for scenario development and MHD stability…
physics.plasm-ph2024
Highest Fusion Performance without Harmful Edge Energy Bursts in Tokamak
SangKyeun Kim, Ricardo Shousha, SeongMoo Yang +20
The path of tokamak fusion and ITER is maintaining high-performance plasma to produce sufficient fusion power. This effort is hindered by the transient energy burst arising from th…
physics.plasm-ph2023
Saturation of fishbone instability by self-generated zonal flows in tokamak plasmas
G. Brochard, C. Liu, X. Wei +13
Gyrokinetic simulations of the fishbone instability in DIII-D tokamak plasmas find that self-generated zonal flows can dominate the nonlinear saturation by preventing coherent stru…