Validation of gyrokinetic simulations of a National Spherical Torus eXperiment H-mode plasma and comparisons with a high-k scattering synthetic diagnostic

A new extensive validation study performed for a modest-beta National Spherical Torus eXperiment (NSTX) neutral beam injection-heated H-mode discharge predicts that electron thermal transport can be entirely explained by short-wavelength electron-scale turbulence fluctuations driven by the electron...

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Main Authors: Ruiz, JR, Guttenfelder, W, White, AE, Howard, NT, Candy, J, Ren, Y, Smith, DR, Loureiro, NF, Holland, C, Domier, CW
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2019