19th Workshop on MHD Stability Control - A US-Japan Workshop

Fundamental understanding of plasma response to 3D fields & MHD stability control

Hosted by Auburn University November 3-5, 2014


Invited Talks

  • Dylan Brennan (PPPL) Control of resistive wall modes with tearing layers, rotation, and finite beta in full MHD
  • Chiara Piron (RFX) Coupling of externally applied 3D fields with internal MHD, with focus on sawteeth and their control
  • Valentin Igochine (IPP) Identification and possible extension of the beta limit in ASDEX Upgrade
  • Zhirui Wang (PPPL) Drift kinetic effects on 3D plasma response in high beta NSTX and DIII-D plasmas
  • Josef Kamleitner (EPFL/CRPP) Suprathermal electron dynamics and MHD instabilities in a tokamak
  • Gerrit Kramer (PPPL) Fast ion transport and modification of Alfven activity in NSTX using 3D field
  • Junya Shiraishi (JAEA) Extension of kinetic-MHD model to include toroidal rotation shear effect and its application to stability analysis of resistive wall modes
  • Nik Logan (PPPL) Neoclassical toroidal viscosity in perturbed equilibria with general tokamak geometry
  • Ian Chapman (EURATOM/CCFE) 3D plasma boundary displacements and interaction with position control
  • Edward Strait (GA) Validation of 3D plasma response models
  • Akio Sanpei (Kyoto) Properties of the equilibrium and the eddy current distribution in the vacuum vessel in a low-aspect-ratio RFP RELAX
  • David Ennis (AU) Passive stabilization of MHD instability using stellarator rotational transform on CTH
  • Satoshi Ohdachi (NIFS) MHD instabilities and its suppression by the RMP in the Large Helical Device
  • Special Session on "Using internal coils for MHD control":
    Dmitri Orlov (UCSD) DIII-D: Internal and Centerpost Coils
    Go Matsunaga (JAEA) JT-60SA: Plans for internal coils