Chapter 2: Plasma confinement and transport
University of California, Los Angeles · Oak Ridge National Laboratory · +22 more institutions
Abstract
The understanding and predictive capability of transport physics and plasma confinement is reviewed from the perspective of achieving reactor-scale burning plasmas in the ITER tokamak, for both core and edge plasma regions. Very considerable progress has been made in understanding, controlling and predicting tokamak transport across a wide variety of plasma conditions and regimes since the publication of the ITER Physics Basis (IPB) document (1999 Nucl. Fusion 39 2137-2664). Major areas of progress considered here follow. (1) Substantial improvement in the physics content, capability and reliability of transport simulation and modelling codes, leading to much increased theory/experiment interaction as these…
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- Tokamak
- Magnetic confinement fusion
- Scaling
- Plasma
- Physics
- Plasma confinement
- Nuclear engineering
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