3 papers
physics.plasm-ph2026
Revisiting confinement scalings and fusion performance with a perspective optimized for extrapolation
Jalal Butt, Geert Verdoolaege, Stanley M. Kaye +1
Recent advances in high-temperature-superconductor technology have made substantially higher toroidal magnetic fields technologically accessible, reopening the design space for com…
physics.plasm-ph2025
Sensitivities of time-dependent temperature profile predictions for NSTX with the Multi-Mode Model
J. B. Lestz, G. Avdeeva, S. M. Kaye +5
The Multi-Mode Model (MMM) for turbulent transport was applied to a large set of well-analyzed discharges from the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) in order to evaluate i…
physics.plasm-ph2025
Assessing time-dependent temperature profile predictions using reduced transport models for high performing NSTX plasmas
J. B. Lestz, G. Avdeeva, T. F. Neiser +6
Time-dependent, predictive simulations were performed with the 1.5D tokamak integrated modeling code TRANSP on a large set of well-analyzed, high performing discharges from the Nat…