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Title: Divertor leg filaments in NSTX-U

Authors:
 [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1];  [3]; ORCiD logo [3]
  1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  2. Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
  3. Lodestar Research Corp., Boulder, CO (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
OSTI Identifier:
1485055
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1513111
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-744120
Journal ID: ISSN 0029-5515
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344; AC02-09CH11466; FG02-02ER54678
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nuclear Fusion
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 58; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 0029-5515
Publisher:
IOP Science
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; turbulence; divertor; plasma imaging; scrape-off layer; Physics - Plasma physics

Citation Formats

Scotti, Filippo, Zweben, Stewart, Soukhanovskii, Vlad, Baver, Derek, and Myra, James. Divertor leg filaments in NSTX-U. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1088/1741-4326/aae49f.
Scotti, Filippo, Zweben, Stewart, Soukhanovskii, Vlad, Baver, Derek, & Myra, James. Divertor leg filaments in NSTX-U. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aae49f
Scotti, Filippo, Zweben, Stewart, Soukhanovskii, Vlad, Baver, Derek, and Myra, James. Wed . "Divertor leg filaments in NSTX-U". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aae49f. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1485055.
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Figure 1 Figure 1: Rendering of the NSTX-U divertor with flux tubes corresponding to a midplane blob (a), divertor-localized fluctuations (b) and their intersection with the divertor floor (c). The separatrix is rendered in yellow at two toroidal locations.

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