Invited MFE: Divertor and ELMs

Presentations

• Observation Of Edge Magnetic Islands And 3D Turbulence Structure During Rmp ELM Suppression

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 20, 2025, 2:00 PM – Nov. 20, 2025, 2:30 PM

  Publication: [1] S.M. Yang et al., Nat Commun 15, 1275 (2024)<br>[2] M. Willensdorfer et al., Nat. Phys. 20, 1980–1988 (2024)

  Presenters

  • SeongMoo Yang

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  Authors

  • SeongMoo Yang

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • SangKyeun Kim

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Jong-Kyu Park

    Seoul National University, PPPL, Seoul National University

  • Qiming Hu

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton University

  • J. Lee

    Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE), KFE

  • Jaewook Kim

    Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE)

  • Seung-Hoe Ku

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Minjun J. Choi

    Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE), KFE

  • Jekil Lee

    Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE), Korea Institute of Fusion Energy

  • Won Ha Ko

    Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE)

  • GunYoung Park

    Korea Institute of Fusion Energy

  • Gyungjin Choi

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

  • T.S. Hahm

    Seoul National University

  • Nikolas C Logan

    Columbia University

  • Egemen Kolemen

    Princeton University

  • Gerrit J Kramer

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Alessandro Bortolon

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Joseph A Snipes

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

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• Predicting 3D heat loads from non-axisymmetric plasmas for SPARC tokamak using the HEAT code

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 20, 2025, 2:30 PM – Nov. 20, 2025, 3:00 PM

  Publication: T. Looby, et al. A software package for plasma-facing component analysis and design: The heat flux engineering analysis toolkit (heat). Fusion Science and Technology, 78(1):10–27, 2022.<br><br>S. Munaretto, et al. Impact of error fields and error field correction on heat fluxes in sparc. Nuclear Fusion, 65(4):046007, mar 2025<br><br>A. Wingen, et al. Development and validation of non-axisymmetric heat flux simulations with 3d felds using the heat code. Nucelar Fusion, submitted paper, 2025.<br><br>M. Scotto D'Abusco et al. 3D Modelling of n=1 RMP driven heat fluxes on the SPARC tokamak PFCs using HEAT. Nuclear Fusion, submitted paper, 2025<br><br>M. Scotto D'Abusco et al. Assessing PFC thermal response to rotating 3D magnetic fields in SPARC tokamak, PPCF, planned 2025<br>

  Presenters

  • Manuel Scotto d'Abusco

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  Authors

  • Manuel Scotto d'Abusco

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Andreas Wingen

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Tom Looby

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Andreas Kleiner

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Domenica Corona

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Michael Churchill

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Nathaniel Mandrachia Ferraro

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Stefano Munaretto

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

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• In-depth computational impurity transport analysis in the SAS-VW divertor using the Monte Carlo GITR code

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 20, 2025, 3:00 PM – Nov. 20, 2025, 3:30 PM

  Publication: Planned paper and PhD dissertation work

  Presenters

  • Alyssa L Hayes

    University of Tennessee

  Authors

  • Alyssa L Hayes

    University of Tennessee

  • Gregory Sinclair

    General Atomics

  • Andrew Liu

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Timothy Younkin

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Tyler W Abrams

    General Atomics

  • Ane Lasa Esquisabel

    University of Tennessee

  • Robert S Wilcox

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Brian D Wirth

    University of Tennessee

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• The prospects of an X-point target radiator as a reactor exhaust solution

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 20, 2025, 3:30 PM – Nov. 20, 2025, 4:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Kenneth Lee

    EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL-SPC

  Authors

  • Kenneth Lee

    EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL-SPC

  • Christian Theiler

    EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), EPFL Swiss Plasma Center (SPC)

  • Massimo Carpita

    EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), EPFL-SPC

  • Olivier Fevrier

    Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL, Lausanne, EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

  • Adriano Mele

    EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL

  • Francesco Pastore

    EPFL Swiss Plasma Center

  • Artur Perek

    EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

  • Holger Reimerdes

    EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

  • Kevin Verhaegh

    Eindhoven University of Technology, TUe

  • Max Winkel

    Eindhoven University of Technology

  • Martim Zurita

    EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

  • Dominik Brida

    Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Benjamin Brown

    EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), EPFL-SPC

  • Cassandre E Contré

    EPFL Swiss Plasma Center

  • Reinart Coosemans

    EPFL Swiss Plasma Center

  • Richard Ducker

    EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

  • Garance Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud

    EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

  • Cristian Galperti

    EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, SPC-EPFL

  • Daniele Hamm

    EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL-SPC

  • Cosmas Heiss

    Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL, EPFL Swiss Plasma Center

  • Benoit Labit

    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Swiss Plasma Center, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

  • Riccardo I Morgan

    EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), EPFL-SPC

  • Olivier Sauter

    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Swiss Plasma Center, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, SPC-EPFL, EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL, Swiss Plasma Center (SPC)

  • Luke Simons

    EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, SPC

  • Elena Tonello

    EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

  • Yinghan Wang

    EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center (SPC)

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• Lithium Transport and Stability in Capillary Porous Structures Exposed to Tokamak Divertor Conditions

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 20, 2025, 4:00 PM – Nov. 20, 2025, 4:30 PM

  Publication: A paper is planed on this work

  Presenters

  • Maria Morbey

    Dutch Inst for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER)

  Authors

  • Maria Morbey

    Dutch Inst for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER)

  • Florian Effenberg

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Jonathan D Coburn

    Sandia National Laboratories

  • Thomas W Morgan

    DIFFER

  • Alessandro Bortolon

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Dmitry L Rudakov

    University of California, San Diego

  • Jun Ren

    University of Tennessee

  • Ryan T Hood

    Sandia National Laboratories

  • Tomas Odstrcil

    General Atomics

  • Claudio Marini

    University of California, San Diego

  • James J Yang

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Eric D Emdee

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Tyler W Abrams

    General Atomics

  • Jos Scholte

    DIFFER

  • Alexander Nagy

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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• Controlling ELM Dynamics: From Bursting Instabilities to Continuous Turbulence

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 20, 2025, 4:30 PM – Nov. 20, 2025, 5:00 PM

  Publication: Nami Li et al 2025 Nucl. Fusion 65 076023

  Presenters

  • Nami Li

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Nami Li

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • xueqiao xu

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Brian S Victor

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Zeyu Li

    General Atomics

  • Huiqian Wang

    General Atomics

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