In these simulations, the equilibrium that is used to start the nonlinear simulations has been artificially raised 8.5% above the best fit equilibria. This is above the ideal marginal stability threshold so the early time behavior is not being accurately modelled. The nonlinear behavior is very interesting however.

The three dimensional image shows:

Two field-lines whose integration points remain fixed in time.
The color of the field-line indicates the temperature; the brightness of the nodes indicates the distance along the field-line (to aid in visualizing it).
Temperature isosurfaces. As seen in the figure below, we are starting with an axisymmetric equilibrium with an inverted temperature profile.
Heat flux on limiter wall. This is not the computational boundary, but rather the DIII-D limiter.

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