PDF's of Workshop Talks

Session 1: Non-linear MHD Control in Fusion Devices

• Michael Bell Discoveries in MHD Physics from TFTR: a Retrospective
• Joseph Snipes ITER Plasma Control System Development and MHD Control
• Matthew Lanctot Predicting plasma performance in the presence of 3D fields from Test Blanket Modules
• Francesca Turco Measuring and modelling disruptive instabilities in the DIII-D ITER Baseline Scenario

Session 2: Real-time 3D and MHD Control

• Egemen Kolemen Development of ITER Real-time Control
• David Eldon Development of real time kinetic equilibrium reconstruction to support real time stability analysis
• Mark Boyer TRANSP testing of feedback control algorithms for stored energy, q0, and plasma current in non-inductive scenarios in NSTX-U
• Erik Olofsson Dynamical reconstruction of poloidal flux and non-inductive source profiles with potential applications for MHD stability
• Marco de Baar Control oriented modelling for tearing mode and sawtooth control
• Menno Lauret Sawtooth Period Control by Power Modulation
• Junya Shiraishi Model Predictive Control for Toroidal Rotation Profile in Tokamaks

Session 3: Non-linear/non-ideal Processes in TM/NTM

• Roscoe White Thermal Island Destabilization and the Greenwald Density Limit
• Zhirui Wang Computation of Resistive/Relax Perturbed Equilibrium with RPEC and Resistive DCON
• Alan Glasser Implementation of Linear Neoclassical Inner Region Model in the DCON Package
• Ryan Sweeney Local measurement of resonant error field using tearing mode dynamics in EXTRAP-T2R
• Egbert Westerhof New insights into the generalized Rutherford equation for nonlinear neoclassical tearing mode growth from 2D reduced MHD simulations
• Michio Okabayashi Resistive Plasma Response of Neoclassical Tearing Mode in Locking Avoidance: New insights from experiment and MARS-F Modeling

Session 4: Nonlinear and Extended

• Matthew Lanctot MHD Control Workshop Special Issue: Call for Papers
• Nikolas Logan Multimodal Plasma Control
• Brendan Lyons M3D-C simulations of plasma response to external magnetic perturbations
• Anthony Cooper 3D MHD equilibrium of Quiescent H-modes in tokamak systems

Session 5: 3D Field Physics in Long Pulse Operation

• YoungSeok Park High Normalized Beta Plasmas Exceeding the Ideal Stability Limit and Projected RWM Active Stabilization Performance Using Newly Installed Feedback Sensors in KSTAR
• Youwen Sun 3D Physics studies and MHD Control in the EAST tokamak
• Robert Wilcox 3D equilibrium effects on pedestal transport in DIII-D, modeling with VMEC and M3D-C

Session 6: Non-linear/Kinetic RWM and Wall Effects

• Jeffrey Levesque Stability of ferritic resistive wall modes in the HBT-EP tokamak
• Mitchell Clement Optimal RWM Control using VALEN
• Agung Chris Setiadi Improved Model Predictive Control of RWM by Error Field Estimator in EXTRAP T2R
• Jeremy Hanson Validation of conducting wall models using magnetic measurements
• Taha Mirhoseini Feedback stabilization of static and flowing liquid-metal walls: design and preliminary experimental

Session 7: Non-linear MHD in Stellerators/RFP

• Saturo Sakakibara Plasma Response to Resonant Magnetic Perturbation in LHD
• Allan Reiman Effects of Anisotropic Transport, and of Symmetry, in MHD Equilibria with Magnetic Islands
• Samuel Lazerson Ideal MHD in the nested flux surface limit
• Daniel Bonfilglio Common nonlinear MHD physics of RFP and tokamak plasmas with magnetic perturbations: from sawtoothing dynamics to stationary helical states
• Ted Strait Summary: ITPA Topical Group on MHD, Disruptions, and Control

Session 8: Disruption processes and dynamics

• Wilkie Choi Statistical analysis of m/n = 2/1 locked modes with rotating precursors at DIII-D
• Steve Jardin 3D Modeling of NSTX VDEs and other disruptions with M3D - C1
• Steve Sabbagh Global MHD Mode Stabilization for Tokamak Disruption Avoidance: Linear/Non-linear Considerations
• Jack Berkery Modifications to Ideal Stability by Kinetic Effects for Disruption Avoidance

Session 9: Disruption Mitigation

• Alexandre Fil Modeling of massive-gas-injection-triggered disruptions in tokamak plasmas with JOREK and IMAGINE
• Roger Raman Outstanding Issues for ITER and FNSF, NSTX-U MGI and EPI, Plans and Key Contributions to Mitigation

Session 10: Kinetic Effects in MHD

• Zhouji Huang The electromagnetic geodesic acoustic mode in TCV
• Enzo Lazzaro Response of the Neoclassical Toroidal Offset Velocity to auxiliary ion heating
• Gerrit Kramer Predictive understanding of fast-ion transport in high q _min steady state plasmas on DIII-D
• Jong-Kyu Park Kinetic plasma response and stability modeling with general perturbed equilibrium code