8 papers
Spacecraft heat shield study in the DIII-D tokamak
Dmitri M. Orlov, Evdokiya G. Kostadinova, Igor Bykov +33
We report a new experimental platform developed at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility to investigate carbon ablation and spallation under extreme heat fluxes relevant to fusion pl…
Assessment of 0-D L-H Power Threshold Scaling and Regression Stability in DIII-D with Applied 3D Magnetic Fields
Michael O Hanson, George R Tynan, Dmitri M Orlov
A database of 192 L-H transitions in DIII-D is used to assess the effects of applied three-dimensional (3D) magnetic fields on the H-mode power threshold and the stability of zero-…
Effect of Controlled Magnetic Island Bifurcation on Electron Diffusion
Jessica Eskew, D. M. Orlov, B. Andrew +7
Magnetic islands strongly influence cross-field electron transport in magnetized plasmas. In particular, bifurcations of the island topology modify the number and location of O-poi…
Plasma Confinement State Classification via FPP Relevant Microwave Diagnostics
Randall Clark, Vacslav Glukhov, Georgy Subbotin +4
We present a parsimonious and robust machine learning approach for identifying plasma confinement states in fusion power plants (FPPs) where reliable identification of the low-conf…
Understanding Plasma Turbulence Through Exact Coherent Structures
Sidney D. V. Williams, Matthew N. Gudorf, Dmitri M. Orlov
Plasma turbulence is a key challenge in understanding transport phenomena in magnetically confined plasmas. This work presents a novel approach using periodic orbit theory to analy…
Gyrokinetic simulations of the effects of magnetic islands on microturbulence in KSTAR
Xishuo Wei, Javier H Nicolau, Gyungjin Choi +8
Gyrokinetic simulations are utilized to study effects of magnetic islands on the ion temperature gradient (ITG) turbulence in the KSTAR tokamak with resonant magnetic perturbations…