Early Edge Modeling Publications

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Edge gyrokinetic theory and continuum simulations X.Q. Xu, Z. Xiong, M.R. Dorr, J.A. Hittinger, K. Bodi, J. Candy, B.I. Cohen, R.H. Cohen, P. Colella, G.D. Kerbe, S. Krasheninnikov, W.M. Nevins, H. Qin, T.D. Rognlien, P.B. Snyder and M.V. Umansky Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 47, 809-816
Theory and fluid simulations of boundary-plasma fluctuations R.H. Cohen, B. LaBombard, D.D. Ryutov, J. L. Terry, M.V. Umansky, X.Q. Xu and S. Zweben Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 47
Geometric gyrokinetic theory for edge plasmas H. Qin, R.H. Cohen, W.M. Nevins, and X.Q. Xu Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 14, 056110
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Continuum Edge Gyrokinetic Theory and Simulations X.Q. Xu, K. Bodi, J. Candy, B. I. Cohen, R. H. Cohen, P. Colella, M. R. Dorr, J. A. Hittinger, G. D. Kerbel, S. Krasheninnikov, W. M. Nevins, H. Qin, T. D. Rognlien, P. B. Snyder, M. V. Umansky, Z. Xiong 21st IAEA Fusion Energy Conference Chengdu, China, 16-21 October 2006 TH/P6-23
General Gyrokinetic Equations for Edge Plasmas H. Qin, R.H.Cohen, W. M.Nevins, and X. Q. Xu Contrib. Plasma Phys., Vol. 46, 477-489
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Progress in the peeling-ballooning model of edge localized modes: Numerical studies of nonlinear dynamics P. B. Snyder, H. R. Wilson, and X. Q. Xu Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 12, 056115
Structure, stability and ELM dynamics of the H-mode pedestal in DIII-D Fenstermacher ME, Osborne TH, Leonard AW, Snyder PB, Thomas DM, Boedo JA, Casper TA, Groebner RJ, Groth M, Kempenaars MAH, Loarte A, McKee GR, Meyer WM, Saibene G, VanZeeland MA, Xu XQ, Zeng L, and Group Author(s): DIII-D Team Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 45, (12): 1493-1502
Simulation of turbulence in the divertor region of tokamak edge plasma M.V. Umansky, T.D. Rognlien, X.Q. Xu Journal of Nuclear Materials, Vol. 337-339, 266-270
Simulation of plasma fluxes to material surfaces with self-consistent edge turbulence and transport for tokamaks T.D. Rognlien, M.V. Umansky, X.Q. Xu, R.H. Cohen, L.L. LoDestro Journal of Nuclear Materials, Vol. 337-339, 327-331
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Blob Dynamics in 3D BOUT Simulations of Tokamak Edge Turbulence D. A. Russell, D. A. D Ippolito, J. R. Myra, W. M. Nevins, and X. Q. Xu Physical Review Letters, Vol. 93, 265001-4
ELMs and constraints on the H-mode pedestal: peeling–ballooning stability calculation and comparison with experiment P.B.Snyder, H.R.Wilson, J.R. Ferron, L.L. Lao,A.W. Leonard, D. Mossessian, M. Murakami, T.H. Osborne,A.D. Turnbull and X.Q. Xu Nucl. Fusion, Vol. 44 320-328
Convective Transport in Tokamaks D. A. D'Ippolito, J. R. Myra, D. A. Russell, S. I. Krasheninnikov, A. Yu. Pigarov, G. Q. Yu, X. Q. Xu, and W. M. Nevins 20th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference Vilamoura, Portugal, 1-6 November 2004, IAEA-CN-116/TH/P6-2
Correlation of Density Pedestal Width and Neutral Penetration Length X. Q. Xu, W. M. Nevins, R. H. Cohen, T. D. Rognlien, and M. V. Umansky Contributions to Plasma Physics, Vol. 44, 105-110
Turbulence in the Divertor Region of Tokamak Edge Plasma M. V. Umansky, T.D. Rognlien, X.Q. Xu, R.H. Cohen, and W. M. Nevins Contributions to Plasma Physics, Vol. 44, 182-187
Self-consistent simulation of turbulence and transport in toka-mak edge plasmas T. D. Rognlien, M.V.Umansky, X.Q.Xu, and R. H. Cohen Contributions to Plasma Physics, Vol. 44, 188-193
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Transitions of turbulence in plasma density limits X.Q. Xu, W.M. Nevins, T.D. Rognlien, R.H. Bulmer, M. Greenwald, A. Mahdavi, L.D. Pearlstein, and P. Snyder Physics of Plasma, Vol. 10, No.5, 1773-1781
Observations of the turbulence in the scrape-off-layer of Alcator C-Mod and comparisons with simulation J.L. Terry, S.J. Zweben, K. Hallatschek, B. LaBombard, R.J. Maqueda, B. Bai, C.J. Boswell, M. Greenwald, and D. Kopon, W.M. Nevins, C.S. Pitcher, B.N. Rogers, D.P. Stotler and X.Q. Xu Physics of Plasma, Vol. 10, No.5, 1739
Experimental characterization of coherent, radially-sheared zonal flows in the DIII-D tokamak G. R. McKee, R. J. Fonck, ..., and X.Q. Xu Physics of Plasma, Vol. 10, No.5, 1712-1719
Transport by intermittency in the boundary of the DIII-D tokamak J. A. Boedo, D. L. Rudakov, R. A. Moyer,..., and X. Q. Xu Physics of Plasma, Vol. 10, No.5, 1670-1677
Self-consistent modeling of turbulence and transport A.I. Shestakov, R.H. Cohen, J.A. Crotinger, L.L. LoDestro, A. Tarditi, X.Q. Xu Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 185, 399-426
Corrigendum: Self-consistent modeling of turbulence and transport A.I. Shestakov, R.H. Cohen, J.A. Crotinger, L.L. LoDestro, A. Tarditi, X.Q. Xu Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 186, 360
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Experimental and Theoretical Study of Quasicoherent Fluctuations in Enhanced D Plasmas in the Alcator C-Mod Tokamak A. Mazurenko, M. Porkolab, D. Mossessian, and J. A. Snipes, X. Q. Xu and W. M. Nevins Physical Review Letters, Vol. 89, 225004-1
Simulations of Boundary Turbulence in Tokamak Experiments  W.M. Nevins, X.Q. Xu, et. al. 19th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Lyon (France) 14-19 October 2002, published as Web Document and CD-ROM, IAEA-CN-94/TH/P3-07
ELMs and Constraints on the H-Mode Pedestal: Model Peeling-Ballooning Modes WP.B. Snyder, H.R. Wilson, X.Q. Xu, et. al. 19th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Lyon (France) 14-19 October 2002, published as Web Document and CD-ROM, IAEA-CN-94/TH/3-01
Imaging and Reducing Turbulence at the Edge of NSTX and C-Mod NSTX Program Highlights
Dynamical simulations of boundary plasma turbulence in divertor geometry X. Q. Xu, W. M. Nevins, R. H. Cohen, J. R. Myra and P. B. Snyder New Journal of Physics Vol. 4 53.1-53.15
Turbulence Simulations of X-point effects on the L-H Transitions X.Q. Xu, R.H. Cohen, W.M. Nevins, G.D. Porter, M.E. Rensink, T.D. Rognlien, J.R. Myra, D.A. D'Ippolito, R. Moyer, P.B. Snyder, and T.N. Carlstrom Nucl. Fusion, Vol. 42 21-27
Application of Parallel Implicit Methods to Edge-Plasma Numerical Simulations T.D. Rognlien, X.Q. Xu, and A.C. Hindmarsh Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 175, 249-268
Edge localized modes and the pedestal: A model based on coupled peeling ballooning modes P. B. Snyder, H. R. Wilson, J. R. Ferron, L. L. Lao, A. W. Leonard, T. H. Osborne, and A. D. Turnbull, D. Mossessian, M. Murakami, X. Q. Xu Physics of Plasma, Vol. 9, 2037-2043
Drift wave instability near a magnetic separatrix J. R. Myra, D. A. D'Ippolito, and X.Q. Xu Physics of Plasma, Vol. 9, 1637
Effect of the B drift direction on plasma edge properties and the L-H transition in DIII-D T.N. Carlstrom, R.J. Groebner, G.R. McKee, R.A. Moyer, T.L. Rhodes, J.C. Rost, G.D. Porter, X.Q. Xu, and W.M. Nevins 29th EPS Conference on Plasma Phys. and Contr. Fusion Montreux, 17-21 June 2002 ECA Vol. 26B, P-1.061
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The BOUT Project; Validation and Benchmark of BOUT Code and Experimental Diagnostic Tools for Fusion Boundary Turbulence X.Q.Xu Plasma Science & Technology, Vol. 3, No. 5, 959-964
Overview of the initial NSTX experimental results M. Ono, M.G. Bell, R.E. Bell, ..., X.Q. Xu Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 41, No. 10, 1435-1447
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L-H transitions simulations in Divertor Geometry X.Q. Xu, R.H. Cohen, T.D. Rognlien, and J.R. Myra Physics of Plasma, Vol. 7, No. 5 1951-1958
Simulation of edge-plasma profiles and turbulence related to L-H transitions in tokamaks T.D. Rognlien, X.Q. Xu, and R.H. Cohen Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion Research, Vol. 42 A271-A776
Resistive X-point modes in tokamak boundary plasmas J.R. Myra, D.A. D'Ippolito, X.Q. Xu, and R.H. Cohen Physics of Plasma, Vol. 7, 2290
Resistive modes in the edge and scrape-off-layer of diverted tokamak J.R. Myra, D.A. D'Ippolito, X.Q. Xu, and R.H. Cohen Physics of Plasma, Vol. 7, 4622

X-Point heating, potentials, and temperature asymmetries in edge plasmas​​​​​​

R.H. Cohen, X.Q. Xu, and M. J. Schaffer Contributions to Plasma Physics, 40 No. 3-4, 437
MHD and Fluid Instabilities at the Plasma Edge in the Presence of a Separatrix and X-Point J.R. Myra, D.A. D'Ippolito, X.Q. Xu, and R.H. Cohen Contributions to Plasma Physics, 40 No. 3-4, 352
Turbulence Studies in Tokamak Boundary Plasmas with Realistic Divertor Geometry X.Q. Xu, R.H. Cohen, G.D. Porter, T.D. Rognlien, D.D. Ryutov, J.R. Myra, D.A. D'Ippolito, R. Moyer, R.J. Groebner Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 40, No. 3Y, 731
Full Spectrum Stability Analysis of the Tokamak Edge Region P.B. Snyder, H.R. Wilson, X.Q. Xu, J.R. Ferron, L.L. Lao, M.S. Chu, E.J. Strait, and A.D. Turnbull 27th EPS Conference on Contr. Fusion and Plasma Phys. Budapest, 12-16 June 2000 ECA Vol. 24B 324 -327
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Turbulence in Boundary Plasmas Xu, X.Q., Cohen, R.H., Porter, G.D., Myra, J.R., D'Ippolito, D.A., Moyer, R. J. Nucl. Mater., Vol. 266-269 (1999) 99
Scrape-Off Layer Turbulence Theory and Simulations Xueqiao Xu and Ronald H. Cohen Contributions to Plasma Physics, 38, No. 1-2, 158
First Parallel Results for a Finite-Element MHD Code on the T3D and T3E A.E. Koniges, X. Xu, P. Covello, S. Plimpton and the NIMROD Team Seismic Supercomputing, San Jose, published as Web Document and CD-ROM
Kinetic effects on particle and heat fluxes in detached plasmas O. V. Batishchev, X. Q. Xu, et. al. Phys. Plasmas, Vol. 3, 3386-3396
Fluid simulations of nonlocal dissipative drift-wave turbulence X. Q. Xu, R. H. Cohen, J. A. Crotinger, and A. I. Shestakov Phys. Plasmas, Vol. 2, 686-700
Effects of Neutral Gas Collisions on the Conducting-Wall Instability X. Q. Xu and R. H. Cohen Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion, Vol. 35, 1071-1084
Electron-temperature-gradient-driven instability in tokamak boundary plasma X. Q. Xu, M. N. Rosenbluth, and P. H. Diamond Phys. Fluids B5, 2206
Erratum: Ion-temperature-gradient modes in noncircular tokamak geometry [Phys. Fluids B 4, 3216 (1992)] D.D. Hua, X.Q Xu, and T.K. Fowler Phys. Fluids B5, 1036
Fluid simulations of conducting-wall-driven turbulence in boundary plasmas X. Q. Xu Phys. Fluids B5 3641
Electron temperature gradient induced instability in tokamak scrape-off layers H.L. Berk, R.H. Cohen, D.D. Ryutov, Yu.A. Tsidulko, X.Q. Xu Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 33, 263-282
Ion-temperature-gradient modes in noncircular tokamak geometry D.D. Hua, X.Q Xu, and T.K. Fowler Phys. Fluids B4, 3216
Evidence of Stochastic Diffusion across a Cross-Field Sheath due to Kelvin-Helmholtz Vortices S.E. Parker, X.Q. Xu, A.J. Lichtenberg and C.K. Birdsall Physical Review A, Vol. 45, 3949-3961
Tearing modes in tokamaks with lower hybrid current drive X. Q. Xu, M. N. Rosenbluth Physics of Fluids B-Plasma Physics Volume: 3 Issue: 2 Pages: 363-371
Unified theory of ballooning instabilities and temperature gradient-driven trapped ion modes X. Q. Xu, M. N. Rosenbluth Phys. Fluids, B 3, 1807 - 1817
Numerical simulation of ion-temperature-gradient-driven modes X. Q. Xu, M. N. Rosenbluth Phys. Fluids, B 3, 627-643