Publication Reports For Fiscal Year 2016

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Formation of current singularity in a 
topologically constrained plasma

Authors:   Yao Zhou, Yi-Min Huang, Hong Qin,  and A. Bhattacharjee

Blob Structure and Motion in the Edge of NSTX

Authors:   S.J. Zweben, J.R. Myra, W.M. Davis, D.A. D’Ippolito, T.K. Gray, S.M. Kaye, B.P. LeBlanc, R.J. Maqueda, D.A. Russell, D.P. Stotler and the NSTX-U Team

PPPL Annual Site Environmental Report 2014

PPPL-5195 Abstract

Fast response of electron-scale turbulence to 
auxiliary heating cessation in National Spherical Torus Experiment

Authors:   Y. Ren, W.X. Wang, B. P. LeBlanc, W. Guttenfelder, S. M. Kaye, S. Ethier, 
E. Mazzucato, K.C. Lee, C. W. Domier, R. Bell, D. R. Smith, and H. Yuh

 Initial experimental test of a high density plasma mass filter

Authors:   R Gueroult, E S Evans, S J Zweben, N J Fisch
,  F Levinton

Self-organized Stationary States of Tokamaks

Authors:   S.C. Jardin,  N. Ferraro,  and I. Kreb

Modeling and Control of Plasma Rotation for NSTX
 Using Neoclassical Toroidal Viscosity and Neutral Beam Injection

Authors:   I.R. Goumiri, C.W. Rowley, S.A. Sabbagh, D.A. Gates, S.P. Gerhardt, 
M.D. Boyer, R. Andre, E. Kolemen, K. Taira

Optimal Shielding Design for Minimum Materials Cost or Mass

Authors:   Robert D. Woolley

A Short Informal History of TFTR Diagnostics

Authors:   Kenneth M. Young

Identification of new turbulence contributions to plasma 
transport and confinement in spherical tokamak regime

Authors:   W. X. Wang, S. Ethier, Y. Ren, S. Kaye, J. Chen, E. Startsev
, Z. Lu
, Z. Q. Li


 Distinct turbulence sources and confinement 
features in spherical tokamak plasma regime

Authors:   W. X. Wang, S. Ethier, Y. Ren, S. Kaye, J. Chen, E. Startsev, and Z. Lu


Relativistic Ponderomotive Hamiltonian 
of a Dirac Particle in a Vacuum Laser Field

Authors:   D.E. Ruiz, C.L. Ellison, I.Y. Dodin

Verification of the ideal MHD response at rational surfaces in VMEC

Authors:   Samuel A. Lazerson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
, Joaquim Loizu, Max-Plank Intitute-fur-Plamaphysik,
 Steven Hirshman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
, Stuart R. Hudson, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

Magnet Design Considerations for Fusion Nuclear Science Facility

Authors:    Y. Zhai, C. Kessel, L. El-guebaly and P. Titus

Finite Element Analysis of Transverse Compressive and
 Thermal Loads on Nb3Sn Wires with Voids

Authors:   Y. Zhai, L. d’Hauthuille, C. Barth and C. Senatore

Explicit high-order non-canonical symplectic particle-in-cell
 algorithms for Vlasov-Maxwell systems

Authors:   Jianyuan Xiao, Hong Qin, Jian Liu, Yang He, Ruili Zhang, and Yajuan Sun

Modeling thermionic emission from laser-heated nanoparticles

Authors:   J.M. Mitrani, M.N. Shneider, B.C Stratton, and Y. Raitses

Full-wave modeling of EMIC waves near the He+ gyrofrequency

Authors:   Eun-Hwa Kim and Jay R. Johnson

Localization of ULF waves in multi-ion plasmas of the planetary magnetosphere

Authors:   Eun-Hwa Kim, Jay R. Johnson, and Dong-Hun Lee

A new hybrid-Lagrangian numerical scheme for gyrokinetic simulation of tokamak edge plasma

Authors:   S. Ku, R. Hager, C.S. Chang, J.M. Kwon, and S.E. Parker

A dynamic magnetic tension force as the cause of failed solar eruptions

Authors: C. E. Myers, M. Yamada, H. Ji,  J. Yoo, W. Fox, J. Jara-Almonte, A. Savcheva & E. E. DeLuca

PPPL-5213 Abstract

Liquid Lithium Applications for Solving Challenging Fusion 
Reactor Issues and NSTX-U Contributions

Authors:   M. Ono, M.A. Jaworski, R. Kaita, Y. Hirooka, T.K. Gray, and
 the NSTX-U Research Team

Sorption of Atmospheric Gases by Bulk Lithium Metal

Authors:   C. A. Hart, C. H. Skinner, A. M. Capece, and B. E. Koel


Spreading of lithium on a stainless steel surface at room temperature

Authors:   C. H. Skinner, A.M. Capece, J.P. Roszell, B. E. Koel


Effects of energetic particle phase space modifications by 
instabilities on integrated modeling

Authors:   M. Podesta, M. Gorelenkova, E. Fredrickson, N. N. Gorelenkov, R. B.White

Phase space effects on fast ion distribution 
function modeling in tokamaks

Authors:    M. Podesta , M. Gorelenkova, E. D. Fredrickson, N. N. Gorelenkov and R. B. White

Lithium granule ablation and penetration 
during ELM pacing experiments at DIII-D

Authors:   R. Lunsford, A. Bortolon, A.L. Roquemore, D.K. Mansfield, A. Nagy, R. Maingi, 
P. B. Parks, G. Jackson, E. Gilson, C.P. Chrobak

In Vacuo Analysis of LTX Wall Samples Exposed to Lithium and 
Implications for High-Z Plasma-Facing Components in NSTX-U

Authors:   R. Kaita, M. Lucia, J. P. Allain, F. Bedoya, R. Bell, D. Boyle, 
A. Capece, M. Jaworski, B. E. Koel, R. Majeski, J. Roszell, 
J. Schmitt, F. Scotti, C. H. Skinner, V. Soukhanovskii

Adjoint Fokker-Planck equation and runaway electron dynamics

Ion Cyclotron Emission Studies: Retrospects and Prospects

A Review of NSTX Research 1999-2015

Practicality of magnetic compression for plasma density control

Electro-Magnetic Analysis of the ITER Upper Visible Infrared Wide Angle Viewing System

On the inward drift of runaway electrons in plateau regime

Validating predictive models for fast ion profile 
relaxation in burning plasmas

CIXS Diagnostic Components Testing in ITER-like Environment

A Fusion-Fission Implementation of the 
Hybrid Molten Salt Reactor (HMSR)

 Upper Port Plug 14 Diagnostic Shielding Module (DSM) Design

A Predictive Model for the Tokamak Density Limit

Fusion Energy Systems Studies (FESS) FNSF Study 
Year-End Report for 2015

First measurements of error fields on W7-X using 
flux surface mapping

Fusion Nuclear Science Facility Overview, Physics Assumptions and Operating Space

Resonance in Fast-Wave Amplitude in a Low-Density Peripheral Plasma

Magnetohydrodynamics for Collisionless Plasmas
 from the Gyrokinetic Perspective

Mitigation of Alfvenic activity by 3D magnetic perturbations on
 NSTX

Phase coherence of parametric decay modes 
during high-harmonic fast-wave heating
 in the National Spherical Torus Experiment

Tokamak-Independent Software Analysis Suite 
for Multi-Spectral Line-Polarization MSE Diagnostics

Quasi-linear gyrokinetic predictions of the 
Coriolis momentum pinch in NSTX

Modeling of Imperfect Nb3Sn Superconducting Wires
 under Transverse Loading

Experimental and modeling uncertainties in the 
validation of Lower Hybrid Current Drive

Gyrokinetic neoclassical study of the bootsrap current in the tokamak edge pedestal with fully non-linear Coulomb collisions

Update on the status of the ITER ECE diagnostic design

Identification of multi-modal plasma responses to applied magnetic perturbations sing the plasma reluctance

Parallel electron force balance and the L-H Transition

High Frequency pacing of edge localized modes by injection of lithium granules in DIII-D H-mode discharges

Dynamic EROI Assessment of the IPCC 21st Century Electricity Production Scenarios

A fully non-linear multi-species Fokker-Planck-Landau collision operator for simulation of fusion plasma

Equilibrium Potential Well due to Finite Larmor Radius Effects at the Tokamak Edge

Remote-sensing gas measurements with Coherent Rayleigh-Brillouin Scattering

Collisional dependence of Alfven mode saturation in tokamaks

Saturation of Alfvén modes in tokamaks

Understanding the dynamics and energetics of magnetic reconnection in a laboratory plasma: Review of recent progress on selected fronts

Action principle for Coulomb collisions in plasmas

Fluid moments of the Landau collision operator

Recent Advances Towards a Lithium Vapor Box Divertor

Initial operation of the NSTX-Upgrade Real-Time Velocity diagnostic

Preliminary measurements of the edge magnetic field pitch from 2-D Doppler backscattering in MAST and NSTX-U

A Multi-Cone X-Ray Imaging Bragg Crystal Spectrometer

Multi-energy x-ray detector calibration for Te and impurity density (nZ) measurements of MCF plasmas

Electron temperature profile measurements using variable energy x-ray detection

Remote Temperature Sensing for Scanning Auger Microprobe

Modeling of Lithium Granule Injection in NSTX with M3D-C1

Kinetic neoclassical calculations of impurity radiation profiles

Pressure Driven Currents Near Magnetic Islands in mD MHD Equilibria: Effects of Pressure Variation Within Flux Surfaces and of Symmetry

Linear gyrokinetic simulations of microinstabilities within the pedestal region of H-mode NSTX discharges in a highly shaped geometry

The Role of Far-Field RF Sheaths in SOL Losses of HHFW Power on NSTX, and Implications for Near-Field Studies of ICRF Antennae

Low-noise heterodyne receiver for Electron Cyclotron Emission Imaging and Microwave Imaging Reflectometry

High Resolution Main-ion Charge Exchange Spectroscopy in the DIII-D H-mode Pedestal

Timely Verification at Large-scale Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Plants

The Advances in boronization of NSTX-Upgrade

Effect of progressively increasing lithium conditioning on edge transport and stability in high triangularity NSTX H-modes

Elimination of Inter-discharge Helium Glow Discharge Cleaning with Lithium Evaporation in NSTX

Fusion Nuclear Science Facilities and Pilot Plants Based on the Spherical Tokamak

Synthetic Diagnostics Platform for Fusion Plasmas

Adjoint method and runaway electron avalanche

Ion gyroradius effects on particle trapping in kinetic Aflvén waves along auroral field lines

Two corrections to the drift-wave kinetic equation in the context of zonal-flow physics

Boronization System for the NSTX-Upgrade Fusions Device

An IR-camera based particle-tracking technique to measure free-surface velocity in liquid metal systems

Classical geometric phase of gyro-motion is a coherent quantum Berry Phase

NSTX-U 2nd Neutral Beam Relocation

A Longitudinal Study of Career Choices after a non-Academic Undergraduate Research Experience

Annual Site Environmental Report for Calendar Year 2015

Ponderomotive dynamics of waves in quasiperiodically modulated media

Computation of Resistive Instabilities by Matched Asymptotic Expansions

Development of a 3-m HTS FNSF Device and the Qualifying Design and Engineering R&D needed to meet the Low AR Design Point

Stress Analysis of the KDEMO Vacuum Vessel

High Performance Superconductors for Fusion Nuclear Science Facility

A Review of Renewable Sources of Electricity Derived from Natural Energy Flows

In-Plane and Out-of-Plane TF Coil Support for the US FNSF Reactor

Structural Assessments of the K-DEMO Blanket Modules

To be provided at a later date

Laser Pulse Compression Using Magnetized Plasmas