Bulletin of the American Physical Society
64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
Volume 67, Number 15
Monday–Friday, October 17–21, 2022; Spokane, Washington
Session UP11: Poster Session VIII: In-Person, Hall A (2:00-3:30pm) and Virtual Poster Presentations (3:45-5:00pm)
MFE: Whole Device Modeling, High Field Tokamaks, Tokamak Physics, DIII-D
FUND:Reconnection, Turbulence
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Room: Exhibit Hall A and Online
Abstract: UP11.00065 : Proximity Control and Robust VDE Protection on DIII-D and KSTAR*
Presenter:
Jayson L Barr
(General Atomics - San Diego)
Authors:
Jayson L Barr
(General Atomics - San Diego)
David A Humphreys
(General Atomics - San Diego)
Nicholas W Eidietis
(General Atomics)
Brian Sammuli
(General Atomics - San Diego)
David Orozco
(General Atomics - San Diego)
Erik Olofsson
(General Atomics - San Diego)
Himank Anand
(General Atomics)
Zichuan A Xing
(General Atomics - San Diego)
Francesca Turco
(Columbia University)
Sang-hee Hahn
(Korea Institute of Fusion Energy)
Cristina Rea
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology MI)
Mark D Boyer
(Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Dennis Mueller
(Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Experiments on KSTAR have diagnosed the limits of its vertical control using machine-scalable metrics, including measured VDE growth rates and the max Z-excursion that the vertical control system can withstand (dZmax), while reaching a new max > 2.2 sustained for more than 3s.
*This work was supported in part by the US Department of Energy under DE-FC02-04ER54698, DE-SC0010685, DE-SC0014264, DE-AC02-09CH11466, and DE-FG02-04ER54761. This work was supported in part by Korean Ministry of Science and ICT under KFE R&D Programs of "KSTAR Experimental Collaboration and Fusion Plasma Research (KFE-EN2201-13)."
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