2 papers
physics.plasm-ph2026
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…
physics.plasm-ph2024
Enhanced pedestal transport driven by edge collisionality on Alcator C-Mod and its role in regulating H-mode pedestal gradients
M. A. Miller, J. W. Hughes, A. M. Rosenthal +7
Experimental measurements of plasma and neutral profiles across the pedestal are used in conjunction with 2D edge modeling to examine pedestal stiffness in Alcator C-Mod H-mode pla…