Literature on ELM Physics

Experimental work

ELM control

  • V. Igochine (ed.), Active Control of Magneto-hydrodynamic Instabilities in Hot Plasmas (2015) PDF

Measurements of pedestal profile evolutions during ELMs

  • F. Laggner, Inter-ELM pedestal structure development in ASDEX Upgrade, PhD thesis (2017) PDF
  • M. Dunne et al, Measurement of neoclassically predicted edge current density at ASDEX Upgrade, Nucl. Fusion 52 (2012) PDF -- Including evolution of toroidal plasma current during ELM crash
  • C. Bowman et al, Pedestal evolution physics in low triangularity JET tokamak discharges with ITER-like wall, Nucl. Fusion 58 (2018) PDF
  • H.R.Wilson, Inter-ELM pedestal evolution in low triangularity JET-ILW discharges, EPS 2017 abstract

Heat deposition onto divertor targets

  • T. Eich et al, papers on divertor heat flux: 2005; 2007; 2009

Detachment / High field side high density (HFSHD)

  • Potzel 2015
  • Reimold 2017
  • F. Reimold, Detachment studies and poloidal scrape-off layer asymmetries in ASDEX Upgrade H-modes, Slides 2017

Rotation measurements

  • E. Viezzer information on rotation in normal field direction in AUG PDF and reversed field direction (reversed B_tor and I_p) PDF
  • M. Cavedon, The role of the radial electric field in the development of the edge transport barrier in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak, PhD thesis (2016) PDF
    • M. Cavedon et al, The role of radial electric field and neoclassical transport in the establishment and sustainment of the edge transport barrier in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak, EPS (2017) PDF

QH-Mode

  • W. Suttrop et al, Stationary ELM-free H-mode in ASDEX Upgrade, 9th EU-TTF workshop Slides PDF
  • W. Suttrop et al, Study of quiescent H-mode plasmas in ASDEX Upgrade, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 46, A151 (2004) PDF
  • W. Suttrop et al, Studies of the 'Quiescent H-mode' regime in ASDEX Upgrade and JET, Nucl. Fusion 45, 721 (2005). PDF -- Observation of QH-Mode in ASDEX Upgrade including Edge Harmonic Oscillation

Modelling of ELM physics

  • Huijsmans GTA, Chang CS, Ferraro N, Sugiyama L, Waelbroek F, Xu XQ, Loarte A, Futatani S Modelling of edge localised modes and edge localised mode control PoP 22, 021805 (2015) PDF -- review paper
  • F. Osmanlic, Ideal linear MHD stability analysis of the edge plasma in ASDEX Upgrade, PhD thesis (2011)
  • QH-Mode modelling with NIMROD PDF
  • Q. Yu papers on density pump-out: NF 2009; NF 2001
  • L. E. Sugiyama and H. R. Strauss, Magnetic X-points, edge localized modes, and stochasticity, PoP 17, 062505 (2010) PDF -- M3D non-linear simulation with many toroidal modes, low heat diffusion anisotropy, overpronounced stochastization, starting from highly unstable equilibrium