Validation of impurity transport models in tokamak plasmas

Francesco Sciortino

MIT

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

5:00pm

NW17-218

PSFC Student Seminars

High performance tokamak operation places challenging constraints on the presence of impurities in both the core and edge plasma regions. Consequently, neoclassical and turbulent impurity transport must be understood, controlled and optimized for integrated scenarios.  In this talk, I will introduce some aspects of particle transport modeling and experiments. In addition, I will describe recent attempts to experimentally test predictions from both neoclassical and turbulent transport theory.