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Title: Multi-device studies of pedestal physics and confinement in the I-mode regime

Journal Article · · Nuclear Fusion
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  1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  2. General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
  3. Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, Garching (Germany)
  4. Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
  5. Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, Garching (Germany); EUROfusion - Programme Management Unit, Garching (Germany)
  6. Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
  7. Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States); Univ. of York, York (United Kingdom)
  8. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  9. ITER Organization, St. Paul Lez Durance Cedex (France)
  10. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
  11. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
  12. Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne (Switzerland)
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Research Organization:
General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Contributing Organization:
Alcator C-Mod, ASDEX Upgrade and DIII-D Teams
Grant/Contract Number:
FC02-04ER54698; FC02-99ER54512-CMOD; SC0012469; FG02-94ER54235; AC52-07NA27344; AC02-09CH11466; FG02-89ER53296; FG02-08ER54999; FG02-08ER54984
OSTI ID:
1373884
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1260287; OSTI ID: 1375941; OSTI ID: 1871410
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-834529
Journal Information:
Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 56, Issue 8; ISSN 0029-5515
Publisher:
IOP ScienceCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 47 works
Citation information provided by
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Edge energy transport barrier and turbulence in the I-mode regime on Alcator C-Mod journal May 2011
Inboard and outboard radial electric field wells in the H- and I-mode pedestal of Alcator C-Mod and poloidal variations of impurity temperature journal June 2014
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Electron temperature fluctuations associated with the weakly coherent mode in the edge of I-mode plasmas journal October 2011
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Nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations of the I-mode high confinement regime and comparisons with experimenta) journal May 2015
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A first-principles predictive model of the pedestal height and width: development, testing and ITER optimization with the EPED model journal August 2011
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Dimensionless pedestal identity plasmas on Alcator C-Mod and JET journal October 2009
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Cited By (11)

Verification of GENE and GYRO with L-mode and I-mode plasmas in Alcator C-Mod journal April 2018
Gyrokinetic investigation of the ASDEX Upgrade I-mode pedestal journal December 2019
Effects of zonal flows on transport crossphase in dissipative trapped-electron mode turbulence in edge plasmas journal July 2019
Scale selection and feedback loops for patterns in drift wave-zonal flow turbulence journal August 2019
Access and sustainment of naturally ELM-free and small-ELM regimes journal September 2018
Up/down impurity density asymmetries in C-Mod plasmas journal September 2018
Assessment of the baseline scenario at q 95 ~ 3 for ITER journal September 2018
Radiative heat exhaust in Alcator C-Mod I-mode plasmas journal March 2019
Scaling laws from theory-based modeling for different regimes in the DEMO fusion reactor journal July 2019
I-mode investigation on the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak journal July 2019
Effects of zonal flows on transport crossphase in dissipative trapped-electron mode turbulence in edge plasmas text January 2019

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