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Title: Investigation of the role of pedestal pressure and collisionality on type-I ELM divertor heat loads in DIII-D

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ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [2];  [4];  [2];  [5];  [6];  [6]; ORCiD logo [2];  [5];  [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3]
  1. Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
  2. General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
  3. Max Planck Inst. for Plasma Physics, Garching (Germany)
  4. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  5. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
  6. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
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Research Org.:
General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States). DIII-D National Fusion Facility (DIII-D); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
OSTI Identifier:
1460098
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1542716
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-777839
Journal ID: ISSN 0029-5515
Grant/Contract Number:  
FC02-04ER54698; FG02-07ER54917; FG02-05ER54809; AC52-07NA27344
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nuclear Fusion
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 58; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 0029-5515
Publisher:
IOP Science
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; Physics - Plasma physics

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Knolker, M., Bortolon, A., Canal, G. P., Evans, T. E., Zohm, H., Abrams, T., Buttery, R. J., Davis, E. M., Groebner, R. J., Hollmann, E., Fenstermacher, M. E., Lasnier, C., Leonard, A. W., Moyer, R. A., Nazikian, R., Osborne, T. H., Paz-Soldan, C., and Sieglin, B. Investigation of the role of pedestal pressure and collisionality on type-I ELM divertor heat loads in DIII-D. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1088/1741-4326/aace92.
Knolker, M., Bortolon, A., Canal, G. P., Evans, T. E., Zohm, H., Abrams, T., Buttery, R. J., Davis, E. M., Groebner, R. J., Hollmann, E., Fenstermacher, M. E., Lasnier, C., Leonard, A. W., Moyer, R. A., Nazikian, R., Osborne, T. H., Paz-Soldan, C., & Sieglin, B. Investigation of the role of pedestal pressure and collisionality on type-I ELM divertor heat loads in DIII-D. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aace92
Knolker, M., Bortolon, A., Canal, G. P., Evans, T. E., Zohm, H., Abrams, T., Buttery, R. J., Davis, E. M., Groebner, R. J., Hollmann, E., Fenstermacher, M. E., Lasnier, C., Leonard, A. W., Moyer, R. A., Nazikian, R., Osborne, T. H., Paz-Soldan, C., and Sieglin, B. Wed . "Investigation of the role of pedestal pressure and collisionality on type-I ELM divertor heat loads in DIII-D". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aace92. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1460098.
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title = {Investigation of the role of pedestal pressure and collisionality on type-I ELM divertor heat loads in DIII-D},
author = {Knolker, M. and Bortolon, A. and Canal, G. P. and Evans, T. E. and Zohm, H. and Abrams, T. and Buttery, R. J. and Davis, E. M. and Groebner, R. J. and Hollmann, E. and Fenstermacher, M. E. and Lasnier, C. and Leonard, A. W. and Moyer, R. A. and Nazikian, R. and Osborne, T. H. and Paz-Soldan, C. and Sieglin, B.},
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doi = {10.1088/1741-4326/aace92},
journal = {Nuclear Fusion},
number = 9,
volume = 58,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jul 11 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Wed Jul 11 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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