Direct gyrokinetic comparison of pedestal transport in JET with carbon and ITER-like walls

2019/05/30 by D.R. Hatch, M. Kotschenreuther, S.M. Mahajan +9 · 8 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Engineering · Materials Science · #Magnetic confinement fusion research #Superconducting Materials and Applications #Fusion materials and technologies

paper · doi:10.1088/1741-4326/ab25bd

Abstract

Direct gyrokinetic comparison of pedestal transport in JET with carbon and ITER-like walls, Hatch, D.R., Kotschenreuther, M., Mahajan, S.M., Merlo, G., Field, A.R., Giroud, C., Hillesheim, J.C., Maggi, C.F., Perez von Thun, C., Roach, C.M., Saarelma, S., JET Contributors

Citations

• Pedestal stability comparison and ITER pedestal prediction
• MHD and gyro-kinetic stability of JET pedestals
• Analysis of pedestal plasma transport
• Effect of the relative shift between the electron density and temperature pedestal position on the pedestal stability in JET-ILW and comparison with JET-C

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