Name: 17th Technical Meeting on Energetic Particles and Theory of Plasma Instabilities in Magnetic Confinement Fusion
Start: 2021-12-06T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2021-12-10T17:50:00+01:00
Location: Virtual Event

17th Technical Meeting on Energetic Particles and Theory of Plasma Instabilities in Magnetic Confinement Fusion

from Monday, 6 December 2021 (08:30) to Friday, 10 December 2021 (17:50)

Monday, 6 December 2021
14:00
14:00 - 14:10
Contributions

14:00 Opening Remarks - Matteo Barbarino (International Atomic Energy Agency)

14:05 Opening Remarks - William W. Heidbrink (University of California Irvine)
14:10
14:10 - 17:40
Contributions

14:10 Unstable beta-induced ion temperature gradient (BTG) eigenmodes in JET plasmas with ITBs and elevated monotonic q-profiles. - Nicolas Fil (UKAEA, CCFE)

14:40 Hybrid simulations of of beta-induced Alfven eigenmode with reversed safety factor profile - Sizhe Duan (University of Science and Technology of China)

15:00 Implementation of ion cyclotron resonance frequency heating in a kinetic-MHD hybrid code: MEGA - Jialei Wang (National Institute for Fusion Science)

15:20 Modeling of the nonlinear resonant interaction between ELMs and fast-ions in tokamaks using MEGA - Jesus Dominguez-Palacios (University of Seville)

15:40 Effects of distribution functions in global gyrokinetic simulations of energetic particle driven Alfvénic and EGAM instabilities in ITER and ASDEX Upgrade - Thomas Hayward-Schneider (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics)

16:00 Impurity holes induced by energetic electrons during electron cyclotron resonance heating in tokamaks with helical core - Victor Marchenko (Institute for Nuclear Research, Kyiv, Ukraine)

16:20 Verification and validation of gyrokinetic and kinetic-MHD simulations for internal kink and fishbone instabilities in DIII-D and ITER - Guillaume Brochard (University of California, Irvine)

16:40 Effect of anisotropic fast ions on internal kink mode stability in DIII-D negative and positive triangularity plasmas - Deyong Liu (University of California, Irvine)

17:00 Conceptual design of DIII-D experiments to diagnose the lifetime of spin polarized fuel - Alvin V. Garcia (University of California, Irvine)

17:20 Negative triangularity shaping effects on Alfvén eigenmodes in DIII-D plasma - Yashika Ghai
Tuesday, 7 December 2021
14:00
14:00 - 18:00
Contributions

14:00 Numerical Studies on Saturated Kink and Sawtooth Induced Fast Ion Transport in JET - Phillip Bonofiglo (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

14:30 Numerical study of helium ash and fast particle dynamics in a sawtoothing tokamak plasma - Andreas Bierwage (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology)

14:50 Energetic Ion Transport due to Energetic Particle Continuum Mode in Deuterium LHD Plasmas - Kunihiro Ogawa (National Institute for Fusion Science)

15:10 Precession direction reversal and rapid energetic particle pressure redistribution in a Large Helical Device Plasma - Malik Idouakass (NIFS)

15:30 Simulation study of energetic-particle driven off-axis fishbone instabilities in tokamak plasmas - Hanzheng Li

15:50 Estimation of the magnetic field mode structure of EIC event applying data assimilation method in LHD - Kosuke Suzuki (Kyoto University)

16:10 Hybrid kinetic-MHD modelling of fast-ion flow induced by Alfvén instabilities measured by an imaging neutral particle analyzer - Javier Gonzalez-Martin (University of California, Irvine)

16:40 Fast-ion Transport Induced by Edge Localized Modes - Haotian Chen (University of Seville)

17:00 Fast-Ion losses during the current ramp-up and disruptions of the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak - Jose Rueda Rueda (University of Seville)

17:20 Experimental study of RMP induced fast-ion transport using FIDA spectroscopy at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak - Anton Jansen van Vuuren (University of Seville)

17:40 Fast Ion Losses and Plasma Response Induced by externally Applied Magnetic Perturbations on DIII-D - Kenneth Gage (UCI)
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
14:00
14:00 - 16:10
Contributions

14:00 Simulations of Disruption Mitigation in ITER with Two-Stage Shattered Pellet Injection - Oskar Vallhagen

14:20 Investigation of Alfvénic activity during the current quench in ASDEX-Upgrade - Paul Heinrich (IPP Garching)

14:40 Fast wave excited by runaway electrons in disruptive plasma - Chang Liu (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

15:00 Polarized imaging of visible synchrotron emission from runaway electron plateaus in DIII- - Zana Popovic (UCSD)

15:30 Determination of Runaway Electron Distribution Parameters from Synchrotron Radiation Measurements - Chiara Monti (ENEA)

15:50 Orbit Weight Functions for Neutron Emission and One-step Reaction Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy Diagnostics - Henrik Järleblad (DTU Physics, Technical University of Denmark)
16:10
16:10 - 17:10
Contributions

16:10 Characterization of ion cyclotron emission in the DIII-D tokamak - Genevieve DeGrandchamp (University of California, Irvine)

16:40 Theory for control of sub-cyclotron Alfvén instabilities and implications for anomalous electron energy transport in tokamaks - Jeff Lestz (UC Irvine)
Thursday, 9 December 2021
14:00
14:00 - 17:30
Contributions

14:00 Theoretical Studies of Low-frequency Alfven Modes in Tokamak Plasmas - Ruirui MA (Southwestern Institute of Physics)

14:30 Gyrokinetic simulation study of BAE and LFM properties in DIII-D plasma - Gyungjin Choi (Seoul National University)

14:50 Toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes excited by energetic electrons in EAST low-density plasmas - Xiang Zhu (Shenzhen University)

15:10 Nonlinear reversed shear Alfvén eigenmode saturation due to spontaneous zonal current generation - Shizhao Wei

15:30 Nonlinear simulations of Alfvén eigenmodes in CFQS plasmas - Hao WANG (National Institute for Fusion Science)

15:50 Simulation of EP-driven nonlinear collective effects using Landau closure methods - Donald Spong (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

16:10 Measurements of Alfven Eigenmode stability in JET D and T plasmas - Roy Tinguely (MIT PSFC)

16:30 Observation and interpretation of tornado modes coupled to near-axis Alfvén cascade eigenmodes in JET sawtoothing plasmas - Rui Calado (Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal)

16:50 Plasma rotation caused by destabilized eigenmodes and improved plasma performance - Yaroslav Kolesnichenko (Institute for Nuclear Research)

17:10 Energetic Particle-Induced Geodesic Acoustic Modes on DIII-D - Daniel Lin (University of California, Irvine)
Friday, 10 December 2021
14:00
14:00 - 15:10
Contributions

14:00 Mitigation of AE induced ICRF fast-ion losses using deuterium NBI in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak - Joaquin Galdon-Quiroga (University of Seville)

14:30 Mitigation of Alfvén Eigenmodes in negative triangularity plasmas at TCV - Pablo Oyola (Universidad de Sevila)

14:50 Stochastic diffusion of fast ions in Wendelstein-line stellarators: numerical experiment and extension of theory - Anton Tykhyi (Institute for Nuclear Research, Kyiv, Ukraine)
15:10
15:10 - 17:40
Contributions

15:10 Global gyrokinetic study of magnetic shaping effect in reversed magnetic shear plasmas - Wei WANG (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST))

15:30 Quantitative linear stability of TAEs in JET ITB scenarios designed for alpha driven modes in DT - Michael Fitzgerald

15:50 Regulation of Alfven eigenmodes by microturbulence in fusion plasmas - Pengfei Liu (University of California, Irvine)

16:20 Integrated, self-consistent quasilinear modeling of fast ion relaxation in tokamaks - Vinicius Duarte (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

16:40 Fast-ion transport optimization using the integrated TGLF-EP+Alpha Alfvén eigenmode transport model - Eric Bass (UC San Diego)

17:00 Feasibility of kinetic stability analysis in time-dependent simulations and applications for predictions and design of controlled plasma discharges - Francesca Poli (PPPL)

17:20 Multiscale Chirping modes Driven by Thermal Ions in a Plasma with Reactor-relevant Ion Temperature - Xiaodi Du (General Atomics)
17:40
17:40 - 17:50
Contributions

17:40 Closing and Announcement of 18th Meeting - Matteo Barbarino (International Atomic Energy Agency) Matthew John Hole (Australian National University)