Plasma Physics Seminar |
Dr. Parvez N. Guzdar IREAP, University of Maryland Self-organizing improved confinement transitions in tokamaks: Comparison of theory and observations Tokamaks undergo spontaneous transitions from poorly confined states to well-confined states. Such transitions are refered to as Low to High (confinement) or L-H transitions. I will briefly review our recent theory for the onset of such transitions to improved confinement states and compare the predictions of this theory with observations on the DIII-D tokamak at General Atomics, San Diego. |