Topical Group on Self-Heating, Transport, and Confinement at Reactor Scale
Questions to be addressed in this area include:
What are the outstanding confinement issues related to the design and
operation of a burning plasma experiment?
To what extent do recent experimental and theoretical
advances support a generic burning plasma design point?
How well do we understand H-mode confinement at small rho* and/or
small Mach number? In particular,
what have we learned about confinement as it relates to pedestal
performance, high density phenomena, density profile control, and
profile stiffness?
Good confinement seems to require transport barriers,
either internally or near the edge of the plasma. Can transport barriers
be produced and controlled in burning plasma conditions?
Other issues may also be discussed, as
appropriate. Please feel free to make recommendations to the topical
group coordinators.
Bill Dorland, Univ. of Maryland (
bdorland@kendall.umd.edu
) and Wayne Houlberg, ORNL (
houlbergwa@ornl.gov)