Publication Reports For Fiscal Year 2017

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PPPL-5301 

Pushing Particles with Waves: Current drive and Channeling

Authors:   N. Fisch

PPPL-5301 Abstract

PPPL-5302

Laboratory Observation of Resistive Electron Tearing in a Two-Fluid Reconnecting Current Sheet

Authors:   J. Jara-Almonte, H. Ji, M. Yamada, J. Yoo, and W. Fox

PPPL-5302 Abstract
PPPL-5303

Progress in K-DEMO Heating/Current Drive and Tokamak Configuration Development

Authors:   G.H. Neilson, D. Mikkelsen, C. Kessel, T. Brown, P. Titus, H. Zhang, K. Im, J.S. Park and S. Kwon

PPPL-5303 Abstract
PPPL-5304

Design and Operation of the Electrical Noise Suppression System for CHI on NSTX and NSTX-U

Authors: Z. Gao, R. Ramakrishnan, C. Neumeyer, D. Mueller

PPPL-5304 Abstract


PPPL-5305

Energetic particle-driven compression Alfvén eigenmodes and prospects for ion cyclotron emission studies in fusion plasmas

Authors:  N. Gorelenkov

PPPL-5305 Abstract
PPPL-5306

Dynamic analysis and inertia load of ITER equatorial port plug EPP9 DSM2

Authors:  H. Zhang, Y. Zhai, P. Titus

PPPL-5306 Abstract
PPPL-5307

General Overview of the ITER Low Field Side Reflectometer Diagnostic System

Authors:   A. Zolfaghari, M. Gomez, N. Allen, R. Feder, M. Messineo, H. Zhang

PPPL-5307 Abstract
PPPL-5308

Numerical Model of Dual-Coolant Lead-Lithium (DCLL) Blanket

Authors:   A. Khodak, P. Titus, T. Brown, J. Klabacha

PPPL-5308 Abstract
PPPL-5309 

3D Thermal Analysis for CFETR Pre-Superheated Water Cooled Blanket

Authors:   A. Khodak, P. Titus, T. Brown, J. Klabacha, H. Neilson

PPPL-5309 Abstract
PPPL-5310

Parametric Thermal and Flow Analysis of ITER Diagnostic Shield Module

Authors:  A. Khodak, Y. Zhai, W. Wang, R. Feder, G. Loesser, D. Johnson

PPPL-5310 Abstract
PPPL-5311

Analyzing Large Data Sets from XGC1 Magnetic Fusion Simulations Using Apache Spark

Authors:    R. Michael Churchill

PPPL-5311 Abstract
PPPL-5312

Laboratory study of low-b forces in arched, line-tied magnetic flux ropes Authors:   W. X. Wang, S. Ethier, Y. Ren, S. Kaye, J. Chen, E. Startsev, and Z. Lu


Authors: C. E. Myers, M. Yamada, H. Ji, J. Yoo, J. Jara-Almonte, and W. Fox

PPPL-5312 Abstract
PPPL-5313

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

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

PPPL-5313 Abstract
PPPL-5314

Special Issue on the 20th Workshop MHD Stability Control

Authors:   J.K. Park

PPPL-5314 Abstract
PPPL-5315

A New Scaling for Divertor Detachment 

Authors:    R.J. Goldston, J. A. Schwartz

PPPL-5315 Abstract
PPPL-5316

Error Field Measurement, Correction and Heat Flux Balancing on Wendelstein 7-X

Authors:    S. Lazerson, D. Gates

PPPL-5316 Abstract
PPPL-5317

Toward Improved Stellarators Future Directions for U.S. Research

Authors:   G. H. Neilson

PPPL-5317 Abstract
PPPL-5318

Bound State Energies Using Phase Integral Methods 

Authors:   R. B. White

PPPL-5318 Abstract
PPPL-5319

Variational Principles for Dissipative (sub) Systems with Applications to the Theory of Dispersion and Geometrical Optics 

Authors:   I. Y. Dodin, D. E. Ruiz

PPPL-5319 Abstract
PPPL-5320

Nonlinear Fishbone Dynamics in Spherical Tokamaks

Authors:  
F. Wang, G. Y. Fu

PPPL-5320 Abstract
PPPL-5321

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

PPPL-5321 Abstract
PPPL-5322

Measurement of Deuterium Density Profiles in the H-mode Steep Gradient Region Using Charge Exchange Recombination Spectroscopy on DIII-D

Authors: S.R. Haskey, B.A. Grierson, N.A. Pablant

PPPL-5322 Abstract


PPPL-5323

Recent Progress in Understanding Electron Thermal Transport in NSTX

Authors: Y. Ren, E. Belova, N. Gorelenkov, W. Guttenfelder, S.M. Kaye, E. Mazzucato, W.X. Wang, R.E. Bell, B.P. LeBlanc

PPPL-5323 Abstract
PPPL-5324

Zonostrophic Instability Drive by Discrete Particle Noise

Authors: D.A. St-Onge, J.A. Krommes

PPPL-5324 Abstract
PPPL-5325

Compatibility of Lithium Plasma-Facing Surfaces with High Edge Temperatures in the Lithium Tokamak Experiment (LTX)

Authors: R. Majeski, R.E. Bell, D.P. Boyle, R. Kaita, T. Kozub, B.P. LeBlanc, M. Lucia, R. Maingi, E. Merino, Y. Raitses, J.C. Schmitt

PPPL-5325 Abstract
PPPL-5326

Effects of Magnetic Islands on Bootstrap Current in Toroidal Plasmas

Authors: G. Dong, Z. Lin

PPPL-5326 Abstract
PPPL-5327

Band Structure of the Growth Rate of the Two-Stream Instability of an Electron Beam Propagating in a Bounded Plasma
 
Author: Igor D. Kaganovich

PPPL-5327 Abstract
PPPL-5328

Stable synthesis of few-layered boron nitride nanotubes by anodic arc discharge 

Au
thors: Yao-Wen Yeh, Yevgeny Raitses, Bruce E. Koee, and Nan Yao

PPPL-5328 Abstract
PPPL-5329

Momentum Flux Parasitic to Free-Energy Transfer

Au
thor: T. Stoltzfus-Dueck

PPPL-5329 Abstract
PPPL-5330

Extending geometrical optics: A Lagrangian theory for vector waves

Au
thor: D.E. Ruiz

PPPL-5330 Abstract
PPPL-5331

Multi-species impurity granule injection and mass deposition projections in NSTX-I

Au
thors: R. Lunsford, A. Bortolon, A.L. Roquemore, D.K. Mansfield, M.A., Jaworski, R. Kaita, R. Maingi, A. Nagy and the NSTX-U team 

PPPL-5331 Abstract
PPPL-5332

Neutral recycling effects on the ITG turbulence

Authors: D. P. Stotler,  J. Lang, C.S. Chang,  R.M. Churchill, and S. Ku

PPPL-5332 Abstract
PPPL-5333

Modeling of reduced effective secondary electron emission yield from a velvet surface

Authors: C. Swanson, I.D. Kaganovich

PPPL-5333 Abstract
PPPL-5334

Recent Advances in Stellarator Optimization

Authors: D. Gates, T. Brown, J. Breslau, S. A. Lazerson, H. Mynick, G.H. Neilson, N. Pomphrey

PPPL-5334 Abstract
 
PPPL-5335

Full-wave simulations of ICRF and HHFW heating regimes in toroidal plasma with non-Maxwellian distribution functions

Authors: N. Bertelli, E. J. Valeo, M. Gorelenkova, C. K. Phillips, M. Podest'a

PPPL-5335 Abstract
 
PPPL-5336

Kinetic Simulations of Scrape-Off Layer Physics in the DIII-Tokamak
 
Authors: R.M. Churchill, C.S. Chang, R. Hager, R. Maingi, R. Nazikian, D.P. Stotler

PPPL-5336 Abstract


PPPL-5337

Total Fluid Pressure Imbalance in the Scrape-Off Layer of Tokamak Plasmas

Au
thors:  R.M. Churchill, C.S. Chang, R. Hager, R. Maingi, R. Nazikian, D.P. Stotler

PPPL-5337 Abstract


PPPL-5338

Gas Puff Imaging Diagnostics of Edge Plasma Turbulence in Magnetic Fusion Devices

Authors:  S.J. Zweben, D.P. Stotler

PPPL-5338 Abstract


PPPL-5339

Liquid Lithium Loop System to Solve Challenging Technology Issues for Fusion Power Plant

Au
thors:  M. Ono, R. Majeski, M.A. Jaworski, R. Kaita, C.H. Skinner and the NSTX-U Research Team

PPPL-5339 Abstract


PPPL-5340

Di fferential formulation of the gyrokinetic Landau operator

Au
thors:  E. Hirvijoki, and D. Pfeff erlé

PPPL-5340 Abstract


PPPL-5341

Demonstrating Electromagnetic Control of Free-Surface Liquid-Metal Flows Relevant to Fusion Reactors

Authors:  M. Hvasta


PPPL-5341 Abstract


PPPL-5342

Photon polarizability and its effect on the dispersion of plasma waves

Au
thors:  I. Y. Dodin

PPPL-5342 Abstract

PPPL-5343

Parametric decay of plasma waves near the upper-hybrid resonance

Au
thors:  I. Y. Dodin

PPPL-5343 Abstract

PPPL-5344

Computation of Alfven Eiegenmode stability and saturation through a reduced fast ion transport model in the TRANSP tokamak transport code

Au
thors:  M. Podestà


PPPL-5344 Abstract

PPPL-5345

Collisional considerations in axial-collection plasma mass filters

Au
thors:  I. Ochs, N. Fisch, S. Zweben


PPPL-5345 Abstract

PPPL-5346

Complex structure of the carbon arc discharge for synthesis of nanotubes

Authors: V. Vekselman


PPPL-5346 Abstract

PPPL-5347

The role of annulus resonances in edge losses of wave-hearing power in cylindrical plasmas, and applications to NSTX

Au
thor: R. Perkins

PPPL-5347 Abstract

PPPL-5348

The Detection of nanoparticles in carbon arc discharge with laser induced incandescence


Au
thor: S. Yatom

PPPL-5348 Abstract

PPPL-5349

Suppression of Alfvén modes on NSTX-U with outboard beam injection

Au
thors: E. D. Fredrickson, E. Belova, D. J. Battaglia, R. E. Bell, N. A. Crocker, D. Darrow, A. Diallo, S. Gerhardt, N. Gorelenkov, B. LeBlanc, M. Podestà and the NSTX-U team

PPPL-5349 Abstract

PPPL-5350

The Core Plasma Physics and Its Impacts on the FNSF

Au
thor: C. E. Kessel

PPPL-5350 Abstract


PPPL-5351

Overview of the Fusion Nuclear Science Facility, a Credible Break-in Step on the Path to Fusion Energy

Au
thors: C. E. Kessel, A. Khodak, G. H. Neilson, P. Titus, K. Young

PPPL-5351 Abstract


PPPL-5352

Nonlinear Simulations of Beam-Driven Compressional Alfvén Eigenmodes in NSTX


Au
thors: E. Belova, N. N. Gorelenkov, J. B. Lestz, E. D. Fredrickson, and K. Tritz

PPPL-5352 Abstract


PPPL-5353

EC power management for NTM control in the ITER baseline scenario

Au
thors: F. M. Poli, E.D. Fredrickson, N. Bertelli

PPPL-5353 Abstract


PPPL-5354

What Happens to Full-F Gyrokinetic Transport and Turbulence in a Toroidal Wedge Simulation?

Au
thors: C-S. Chang, S. Ku

PPPL-5354 Abstract

PPPL-5355

Feasibility study of 01-mode ECRH in NSTX-U startup plasma

Au
thor: F. M. Poli

PPPL-5355 Abstract

PPPL-5356

Improving fast-ion confinement in high-performance discharges by suppressing Alfvén eigenmodes

Au
thors: G.J. Kramer, M. Podestà,  L. Cui, N.N. Gorelenkov, B. Grierson, and R. Nazikian

PPPL-5356 Abstract

PPPL-5357

Main-ion intrinsic toroidal rotation profile driven by residual stress torque from ion temperature gradient turbulence in the DIII-D tokamak

Au
thors: B. A. Grierson, W.X. Wang, S. Ethier, and D.J. Battaglia

PPPL-5357 Abstract

PPPL-5358

Self-consistent Perturbed Equilibrium with Neoclassical Toroidal Torque in Tokamaks

Au
thors: J-K. Park and N.C. Logan

PPPL-5358 Abstract

PPPL-5359

Perturbative momentum transport in MAST L-mode plasmas

Au
thors: W. Guttenfelder, S.M. Kaye, and Y. Ren

PPPL-5359 Abstract

PPPL-5360

Status Report:  Progress in Electromagnetic Gyrokinetic Simulation Capacities at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory


In Progress

PPPL-5361

NSTX-U L-mode plasmas in support of transport and turbulence validation

Au
thors: W. Guttenfelder, S.M. Kaye, R.E. Bell, A. Diallo, B.P. LeBlanc, and M. Podestà

PPPL-5361 Abstract

PPPL-5362

Simultaneous feedback control of plasma rotation and stored energy on NSTX-U using Neoclassical Toroidal Viscosity and Neutral Beam Injection

Au
thors: I. R. Goumiri

PPPL-5362 Abstract


PPPL-5363

Mitigation of divertor heat flux by high-frequency ELM pacing with non-fuel pellet injection in DIII-D

Au
thors: A. Bortolon, R. Maingi, D.K. Mansfield, A. Nagy, A.L. Roquemore, R. Lunsford, and R. Nazikian

PPPL-5363 Abstract

PPPL-5364

Testing a novel SXR imaging diagnostic in reactor-relevant conditions in the DIII-D tokamak

Au
thors: L. Delgado-Aparicio, B. Grierson, A. Bortolon, A. Nagy, N. Pablant, K. Hill, M. Bitter, B. Stratton, R. Maingi, R. Nazikian, and P. Efthimion

PPPL-5364
(Technical Report)

PPPL-5365

Experimental Calibration Procedures for Rotating Lorentz-Force Flowmeters

Au
thors: M. G. Hvasta, N. T. Slighton, E. Kolemen, and A. E. Fisher

PPPL-5365 Abstract


PPPL-5366

Prediction of Nonlinear Evolution Character of Energetic-Particle-Driven Instabilities

Au
thors: V.N. Duarte, N. Gorelenkov, G. J. Kramer, R. Nazikian, M. Podestà, and B. J. Tobias

PPPL-5366 Abstract


PPPL-5367

Testing novel multi-energy SXR imaging diagnostics in enhanced confinement scenarios in the MST-RFP

Au
thors: L. Delgado-Aparicio, N. Pablant, K. Hill, M. Bitter, B. Stratton, and P. Efthimion

PPPL-5367 (Technical Report)

PPPL-5368

Conductivity tensor for anisotropic plasma in gyrokinetic theory

Au
thors:  P. Porazik and J. R. Johnson

PPPL-5368 Abstract



PPPL-5369

Exact collisional moments for plasma fluid theories

Au
thors:  D. Pfefferlé and E. Hirvijoki

PPPL-5369 Abstract



PPPL-5370

Experimental verification of the role of electron pressure in fast magnetic reconnection with a guide field

Au
thors:  W. Fox, J. Jara-Almonte, J. Yoo, H. Ji, and M. Yamada

PPPL-5370 Abstract



PPPL-5371

On a probable cause of poor selectivity of carbon nanotubes synthesis by arc discharge

Au
thors:  S. Yatom and Y. Raitses

PPPL-5371 Abstract


PPPL-5372

Feedback control design for non-inductively sustained scenarios in NSTX-U using TRANSP

Au
thors:  M. Boyer, R. G. Andre, D. A. Gates, S. P. Gerhardt, J. E. Menard, and F. M. Poli

PPPL-5372 Abstract


PPPL-5373

Multi-region relaxed magnetohydrodynamics in plasmas with slowly changing boundaries — resonant response of a plasma slab

Au
thors:  S. Hudson and A. Bhattacharjee
 

PPPL-5373 Abstract


PPPL-5374

Modeling of lithium granule injection in NSTX using M3D-C1

Au
thors: A. Fil, E. Kolemen, N. Ferraro

PPPL-5374 Abstract



PPPL-5375

Numerical Stress Analysis during Cooldown and Compressive Loading in an Imperfect Nb3Sn Wire

Au
thors: Y. Zhai

PPPL-5375 Abstract



PPPL-5376

Numerical Stress Analysis during Cooldown and Compressive Loading in an Imperfect Nb3Sn Wire

Au
thors: C.S. Chang, S. Ku, R. Hager, and M. Churchill

PPPL-5376 Abstract



PPPL-5377

Numerical Stress Analysis during Cooldown and Compressive Loading in an Imperfect Nb3Sn Wire

Au
thors: C.S. Chang, S. Ku, R. Hager, and M. Churchill

PPPL-5377 Abstract



PPPL-5378

Energy Exchange Dynamics across L-H Transitions in NSTX

Authors: A. Diallo, S.J. Zweben

PPPL-5378 Abstract



PPPL-5379

“Feathered” fractal surfaces to minimize secondary electron emission


Authors: C. Swanson and I. Kaganovich

PPPL-5379 Abstract



PPPL-5380

Laser Pulse Sharpening with Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Plasma

Authors: K. Qu and N. Fisch

PPPL-5380 Abstract


PPPL-5381

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

Authors: R. Maingi, R. Kaita, and the NSTX team

PPPL-5381 Abstract


PPPL-5382

High-β equilibrium and ballooning stability of the low aspect ratio CNT stellarator

Author: S. A. Lazerson

PPPL-5382 Abstract


PPPL-5383

Destabilization of counter-propagating Alfvénic instabilities by off-axis, co-current neutral beam injection

Authors: M. Podestà, E. D. Fredrickson and M. Gorelenkova

PPPL-5383 Abstract


PPPL-5384

The Dimits Shift in a One-Field Fluid Model

Authors: D. A. St-Onge

PPPL-5384 Abstract


PPPL-5385

Non-axisymmetric ideal equilibrium and stability of ITER plasmas with rotating RMPs

Author: S.A. Lazerson

PPPL-5385 Abstract


PPPL-5386

Overview of NSTX Upgrade Initial Results and Modelling Highlights

Authors: J.E. Menard, D.J. Battaglia, R.E. Bell, E. Belova, M.D. Boyer, A. Diallo, F. Ebrahimi, N. Ferraro, E. Fredrickson, S. Gerhardt, N. Gorelenkov, W. Guttenfelder, S.M. Kaye, B.P. LeBlanc, R. Lunsford, D. Mueller, C.E. Myers, M. Ono,  J.-K. Park, M. Podesta, Y. Ren, C.H. Skinner, T. Stoltzfus-Dueck, Z. Wang, R. Andre, N. Bertelli, A. Bhattacharjee, D. Boyle, C.S. Chang, D. Darrow, L. Delgado-Aparicio, S. Ethier, D. Gates,J. Hosea, S. Jardin, M.A. Jaworski, E. Kolemen,  S. Ku, R. Maingi, R. Perkins, F. Poli, B. Stratton, G. Taylor, W. Wang, and S.J. Zweben

PPPL-5386 Abstract


PPPL-5387

HSX as an example of a resilient non-resonant divertor


Author: S.A. Lazerson

PPPL-5387 Abstract

PPPL-5388

Burning-plasma diagnostics: Photon and particle detector development needs

Authors: L. F. Delgado-Aparicio, K. W. Hill, M. Bitter, B. Stratton, D. Johnson, R. Feder, N. Pablant, J. Klabacha, M. Zarnstorff and P. Efthimion

PPPL-5388 (Technical Report)

PPPL-5389

Gyrokinetic continuum simulation of turbulence in a straight open-field-line plasma

Authors: E. Shi, G. Hammett, T. Stoltzfus-Dueck, and A. Hakim

PPPL-5389 Abstract

PPPL-5390

A nonlocal ion heat flux closure for antiparallel reconnection

Authors: J. Ng, A. Hakim, and A. Bhattacharjee

PPPL-5390 Abstract


PPPL-5391

Constructing current singularity in a 3D line-tied plasma Authors: J. Ng, A. Hakim, and A. Bhattacharjee

Authors: Y. Zhou, Y-M. Huang, H. Qin, and A. Bhattacharjee

PPPL-5391 Abstract


PPPL-5392

Observation of flat electron temperature pro files in the Lithium Tokamak Experiment


Authors: D.P. Boyle, R. Majeski, J.C. Schmitt, R. Kaita, M. Lucia

PPPL-5392 Abstract


PPPL-5393

ITER Neutronic Challenges for Upper Port 14

Authors: J. P. Klabacha, B. C. Linn, R. E. Feder

PPPL-5393 Abstract


PPPL-5443 (Tech Report)

2016 Annual Site Environmental Report

Author: V. Finley

PPPL-5443 Abstract