18th MHD Workshop (2013)

PDF's of Workshop Talks

Steady state burning plasma control
J. Ferron	Tokamak control issues for steady-state burning plasma operation
M. Boyer	Nonlinear Control and Real-time Optimization of the Burn Condition in ITER
J. Hanson	RWM control in low-q tokamak discharges
Y. Park	Resistive wall mode active control physics design for KSTAR
G. Manduchi	Integrated magnetic plasma control: lessons learned from RFX-mod MHD Control
J. Barton	Physics-model-based Safety Factor Profile and Internal Energy Control in AT-Scenarios
N. Logan	Kink-Resonance of NTV Torque: Optimizing the Poloidal Spectrum
Resistive wall mode physics
J. Menard	Kinetic effects on the ideal-wall limit and the resistive wall mode
J. Levesque	Optical measurements of kink modes, and plasma shaping and ferritic wall effects in HBT-EP
F. Turco	Progress on MARS-K validation for high performance plasmas
J. Berkery	Resistive Wall Mode Stability in NSTX and Benchmarked Kinetic Physics Calculations with MISK
Resistive wall mode control
B. Park	Strategy on MHD control for steady-state operation in KSTAR
D. Brennan	Control of rotating plasmas with a resistive wall and complex gain
S. Sabbagh	Resistive wall mode and plasma rotation control for disruption avoidance in NSTX
L. Marrelli	Low-q tokamak operations in RFX-mod
Steady state burning plasma control and 3D fields
K. Watanabe	Operation scenario of a helical reactor based on the high beta LHD and its MHD-related issues
D. Maurer	Disruption avoidance using stellarator fields on CTH
M. Lanctot	Effect of 3D Fields on the Edge Harmonic Oscillation in Quiescent H-mode Plasmas
T. Pedersen	Control of topology and edge heat flows in steady-state plasmas on W7-X
Energetic particles and 3D MHD stability
E. Frederickson	Feedback Control of Energetic Particle Driven Modes
F. Orain	Non-linear MHD simulations of ELMs and their interaction with RMPs
J. King	3D structure and evolution of a resonant magnetic perturbation
S. Yamamoto	Control of energetic-ion-driven MHD instability in low shear helical plasmas
Tearing mode stability and control
E. Kolemen	Neoclassical tearing mode control and stabilization in steady state burning plasma
E. Olofsson	Array magnetics signal processing: beyond FFT and SVD
Z. Wang	The Use of DCON for Computation of Outer Region Matching Data for Singular MHD Modes in Axisymmetric Toroidal Plasmas
J. King	NIMROD modeling of instabilities and control
L. Frassinetti	Tearing mode locking and unlocking to an error field in EXTRAP T2R
G. Canal	Fast seeding of NTMs by sawtooth crashes and implications on their preemption
M. Okabayashi	NTM locking and disruption avoidance by mode-rotation control by magnetic feedback
L. Lin	Measurements of tearing mode dynamics with laser-based polarimetry-interferometry diagnostic in toroidal plasmas
Mode locking and special topics
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
L. Delgado-Aparicio	Internal kink modes in Ohmic and LHCD plasmas in Alcator C-Mod
K. Kim	Study on neoclassical transport and kinetic stability in perturbed tokamaks with particle simulation
R. Nebel	Helical Current Drive in Tokamaks and a Plasma-based DC-DC Electrical Transformer
D. Shiraki	Error Field Detection and Mode Locking Avoidance by the Interaction of Applied Rotating 3D Fields With Otherwise Locked Modes
Error fields
Y. Liu	Modelling of the error field correction experiments in MAST
C. Paz-Soldan	The importance of tuned poloidal spectra for error field correction
C. Piron	First results on error field correction in q(a)<2 RFX-mod tokamak plasmas
E. Strait	Summary of ITPA MHD Group Activities