MHD Control for Steady State Burning Plasmas
A Workshop at Santa Fe, New Mexico hosted by the Los Alamos National Laboratory November 18-20, 2013
[...following the 55th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics November 11-15, 2013, Denver, Colorado]
November 18-20, 2013
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Monday |
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| 8:00-8:45 | Registration |
| 8:45-8:50 | Welcome and announcements |
| Session 1 Chair: G. Navratil Steady state burning plasma control | |
| 8:50-9:25 | J. Ferron Tokamak control issues for steady-state burning plasma operation |
| 9:25-9:45 | M. Boyer Nonlinear Control and Real-time Optimization of the Burn Condition in ITER |
| 9:45-10:05 | J. Hanson RWM control in low-q tokamak discharges |
| 10:05-10:25 | Y. Park Resistive wall mode active control physics design for KSTAR |
| 10:25-10:55 | Coffee break |
| 10:55-11:30 | G. Manduchi Integrated magnetic plasma control: lessons learned from RFX-mod MHD Control |
| 11:30-11:50 | J. Barton Physics-model-based Safety Factor Profile and Internal Energy Control in AT-Scenarios |
| 11:50-12:10 | N. Logan Kink-Resonance of NTV Torque: Optimizing the Poloidal Spectrum |
| 12:05-1:30 | Lunch |
| Session 2 Chair: J. Finn Resistive wall mode physics | |
| 1:30-2:05 | J. Menard Kinetic effects on the ideal-wall limit and the resistive wall mode |
| 2:05-2:25 | J. Levesque Optical measurements of kink modes, and plasma shaping and ferritic wall effects in HBT-EP |
| 2:25-2:45 | F. Turco Progress on MARS-K validation for high performance plasmas |
| 2:45-3:05 | J. Berkery Resistive Wall Mode Stability in NSTX and Benchmarked Kinetic Physics Calculations with MISK |
| 3:05-3:35 | Coffee break |
| Session 3 Chair: M. Lanctot Resistive wall mode control | |
| 3:35-4:10 | B. Park Strategy on MHD control for steady-state operation in KSTAR |
| 4:10-4:30 | D. Brennan Control of rotating plasmas with a resistive wall and complex gain |
| 4:30-4:50 | S. Sabbagh Resistive wall mode and plasma rotation control for disruption avoidance in NSTX |
| 4:50-5:25 | L. Marrelli Low-q tokamak operations in RFX-mod |
| Banquet (included in registration fee) preceded by open bar. Banquet speaker: Vincenzo Cirigliano, LANL: Matter, antimatter and surviving the big bang |
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Tuesday |
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| Session 4 Chair: F. Volpe Steady state burning plasma control and 3D fields | |
| 8:00-8:35 | K. Watanabe Operation scenario of a helical reactor based on the high beta LHD and its MHD-related issues |
| 8:35-8:55 | D. Maurer Disruption avoidance using stellarator fields on CTH |
| 8:55-9:15 | M. Lanctot Effect of 3D Fields on the Edge Harmonic Oscillation in Quiescent H-mode Plasmas |
| 9:15-9:50 | T. Pedersen Control of topology and edge heat flows in steady-state plasmas on W7-X |
| 9:50-10:20 | Coffee Break |
| Session 5 Chair: M. Okabayashi Energetic particles and 3D MHD stability | |
| 10:20-10:55 | E. Frederickson Feedback Control of Energetic Particle Driven Modes |
| 10:55-11:15 | F. Orain Non-linear MHD simulations of ELMs and their interaction with RMPs |
| 11:15-11:35 | J. King 3D structure and evolution of a resonant magnetic perturbation |
| 11:35-12:10 | S. Yamamoto Control of energetic-ion-driven MHD instability in low shear helical plasmas |
| 12:10-1:30 | Lunch and group picture |
| Session 6 Chair: R. La Haye Tearing mode stability and control | |
| 1:30-2:05 | E. Kolemen Neoclassical tearing mode control and stabilization in steady state burning plasma |
| 2:05-2:25 | E. Olofsson Array magnetics signal processing: beyond FFT and SVD |
| 2:25-2:45 | Z. Wang The Use of DCON for Computation of Outer Region Matching Data for Singular MHD Modes in Axisymmetric Toroidal Plasmas |
| 2:45-3:05 | J. King NIMROD modeling of instabilities and control |
| 3:05-3:25 | L. Frassinetti Tearing mode locking and unlocking to an error field in EXTRAP T2R |
| 3:25-4:05 | Coffee Break |
| 4:05-4:40 | G. Canal Fast seeding of NTMs by sawtooth crashes and implications on their preemption |
| 4:40-5:00 | M. Okabayashi NTM locking and disruption avoidance by mode-rotation control by magnetic feedback |
| 5:00-5:20 | L. Lin Measurements of tearing mode dynamics with laser-based polarimetry-interferometry diagnostic in toroidal plasmas |
Wednesday |
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| Session 7 Chair: D. Maurer Mode locking and special topics | |
| 8:00-8:35 | G. Pautasso Disruption avoidance and mitigation in ASDEX Upgrade: Tearing mode stabilisation, mode locking with magnetic perturbations and application to study toroidal asymmetry of mode-lock disruption mitigation by massive gas injection |
| 8:35-8:55 | L. Delgado Internal kink modes in Ohmic and LHCD plasmas in Alcator C-Mod |
| 8:55-9:15 | K. Kim Study on neoclassical transport and kinetic stability in perturbed tokamaks with particle simulation |
| 9:15-9:35 | R. Nebel Helical Current Drive in Tokamaks and a Plasma-based DC-DC Electrical Transformer |
| 9:35-10:10 | D. Shiraki Error Field Detection and Mode Locking Avoidance by the Interaction of Applied Rotating 3D Fields With Otherwise Locked Modes |
| 10:10-10:30 | Coffee Break |
| Session 8 Chair: R. Buttery Error fields | |
| 10:30-11:05 | Y. Liu Modelling of the error field correction experiments in MAST |
| 11:05-11:25 | C. Paz-Soldan The importance of tuned poloidal spectra for error field correction |
| 11:25-11:45 | C. Piron First results on error field correction in q(a)<2 RFX-mod tokamak plasmas |
| 12:05-12:25 | E. Strait Summary of ITPA MHD Group Activities |
| 12:25-12:45 | Closing |