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The standard reference for citing NIMROD is:
C.R. Sovinec, A.H. Glasser, T.A. Gianakon, D.C. Barnes, R.A. Nebel, S.E. Kruger, D.D. Schnack, S.J. Plimpton, A. Tarditi, and M.S. Chu, “Nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics simulation using high-order finite elements,” Journal of Computational Physics 195(1), 355–386 (2004). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2003.10.004
The BibTex reference for this is:
@article{Sovinec_2004,
title={Nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics simulation using high-order finite elements},
volume={195},
Issn={0021-9991},
url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2003.10.004},
DOI={10.1016/j.jcp.2003.10.004},
number={1},
journal={Journal of Computational Physics},
publisher={Elsevier Bv},
author={Sovinec, C.R. and Glasser, A.H. and Gianakon, T.A. and Barnes, D.C.
and Nebel, R.A. and Kruger, S.E. and Schnack, D.D. and Plimpton, S.J.
and Tarditi, A. and Chu, M.s.},
year={2004},
month=mar, pages={355–386},
}
V.A. Izzo, A. Battey, R.A. Tinguely, R. Sweeney, and C. Hansen, “Boundary condition effects on runaway electron mitigation coil modeling for the SPARC and DIII-D tokamaks,” Nuclear Fusion 64(6), 066003 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ad3c52
D. Banerjee, C.C. Kim, T. Barberis, and F. Porcelli, “Linear NIMROD simulations of n = 0 modes for straight tokamak configuration and comparison with analytic results,” Physics of Plasmas 31(2), (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0184340
A.P. Sainterme, and C.R. Sovinec, “Resistive hose modes in tokamak runaway electron beams,” Physics of Plasmas 31(1), (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0183530
F. Ebrahimi, and A. Bhattacharjee, “Plasmoid-mediated reconnection during nonlinear peeling–ballooning edge-localized modes,” Nuclear Fusion 63(12), 126042 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ad0062
S. Zeng, P. Zhu, and H. Ren, “Species dependence of the impurity injection induced poloidal flow and magnetic island rotation in a tokamak,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 65(12), 125001 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ad02bc
S. Zeng, P. Zhu, and H. Ren, “Enhanced plasma current spike formation due to onset of 1/1 kink-tearing reconnection during a massive gas injection process,” Physics of Plasmas 30(8), (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0155718
V.A. Izzo, “Simulation of shell pellet injection strategies for ITER-scale tokamaks,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 65(9), 095007 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ace6d4
S. Zeng, P. Zhu, R. Zhou, and M. Xu, “Magnetic island formation and rotation braking induced by low-Z impurity penetration in an EAST plasma,” Nuclear Fusion 63(4), 046018 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/acbdab
Y. Ma, P. Zhu, B. Rao, and H. Li, “MHD simulation on magnetic compression of field reversed configurations with NIMROD,” Nuclear Fusion 63(4), 046017 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/acbdac
A.A. Bala, P. Zhu, H. Li, Y. Ding, J. Liu, S. Wan, Y. He, D. Li, N. Wang, B. Rao, and Z. Wang, “Quasi-static magnetic compression of field-reversed configuration plasma: amended scalings and limits from two-dimensional MHD equilibrium,” Plasma Science and Technology 25(2), 025106 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2058-6272/ac92cc
U. Gupta, and C.R. Sovinec, “Pressure-driven tearing and thermal transport in finite-beta reversed field pinch computations,” Physics of Plasmas 30(1), (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0124281
S. Zeng, P. Zhu, R. Zhou, and D.F. Escande, “Triggering of tearing instability by impurity radiation through resistive interchange reversal in a tokamak,” Nuclear Fusion 63(1), 016026 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aca687
Z. Zou, P. Zhu, C.C. Kim, W. Deng, X. Wang, and Y. Hou, “Frequency multiplication with toroidal mode number of kink/fishbone modes on a static HL-2A-like tokamak,” Plasma Science and Technology 24(12), 124005 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2058-6272/aca00a
O.E. López, E.C. Howell, J.D. Hanson, and D.A. Maurer, “Power-transfer and fixed-point analysis of sawtooth simulations of a current-carrying stellarator,” Journal of Plasma Physics 88(6), (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022377822000770
V.A. Izzo, I. Pusztai, K. Särkimäki, A. Sundström, D.T. Garnier, D. Weisberg, R.A. Tinguely, C. Paz-Soldan, R.S. Granetz, and R. Sweeney, “Runaway electron deconfinement in SPARC and DIII-D by a passive 3D coil,” Nuclear Fusion 62(9), 096029 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ac83d8
P. Zhu, F. Ma, X. Yan, and W. Huang, “A resistive MHD model and simulation on plasma flow evolution in the presence of resonant magnetic perturbation in a tokamak,” Physics of Plasmas 29(7), (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0085883
B.S. Cornille, M.T. Beidler, S. Munaretto, B.E. Chapman, D. Del-Castillo-Negrete, N.C. Hurst, J.S. Sarff, and C.R. Sovinec, “Computational study of runaway electrons in MST tokamak discharges with applied resonant magnetic perturbation,” Physics of Plasmas 29(5), (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0087314
S. Taheri, J.R. King, and U. Shumlak, “Time-discretization of a plasma-neutral MHD model with a semi-implicit leapfrog algorithm,” Computer Physics Communications 274, 108288 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2022.108288
E.C. Howell, J.R. King, S.E. Kruger, J.D. Callen, R.J. La Haye, and R.S. Wilcox, “Growing neoclassical tearing modes seeded via transient-induced-multimode interactions,” Physics of Plasmas 29(2), (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0076253
J.A. Spencer, B. Adair, E.D. Held, J.-Y. Ji, and J.R. Jepson, “Accurate numerical, integral methods for computing drift-kinetic Trubnikov-Rosenbluth potentials,” Journal of Computational Physics 450, 110862 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2021.110862
S. Zeng, P. Zhu, V.A. Izzo, H. Li, and Z. Jiang, “MHD simulations of cold bubble formation from 2/1 tearing mode during massive gas injection in a tokamak,” Nuclear Fusion 62(2), 026015 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ac3e3a
N. Ahmad, P. Zhu, A. Ali, and S. Zeng, “Viscous effects on plasmoid formation from nonlinear resistive tearing growth in a Harris sheet,” Plasma Science and Technology 24(1), 015103 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2058-6272/ac3563
J. Rosenberg, and F. Ebrahimi, “Onset of Plasmoid Reconnection during Magnetorotational Instability,” The Astrophysical Journal Letters 920(2), L29 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac2b2e
J.R. Jepson, C.C. Hegna, E.D. Held, J.A. Spencer, and B.C. Lyons, “Benchmarking NIMROD continuum kinetic formulations through the steady-state poloidal flow,” Physics of Plasmas 28(8), 082503 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0054978
A. Zafar, P. Zhu, A. Ali, S. Zeng, and H. Li, “Effects of helium massive gas injection level on disruption mitigation on EAST,” Plasma Science and Technology 23(7), 075103 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2058-6272/abfea3
H. Li, and P. Zhu, “Solving the Grad–Shafranov equation using spectral elements for tokamak equilibrium with toroidal rotation,” Computer Physics Communications 260, 107264 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2020.107264
F. Ebrahimi, “An Alfvenic reconnecting plasmoid thruster,” Journal of Plasma Physics 86(6), (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022377820001476
K.J. Bunkers, and C.R. Sovinec, “The influence of boundary and edge-plasma modeling in computations of axisymmetric vertical displacement,” Physics of Plasmas 27(11), (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0023604
C.H. Li, Z.H. Jiang, Z.F. Lin, X. Ye, J. Huang, R.H. Tong, L.Z. Zhu, Z.Y. Chen, Y. Liang, P. Zhu, Z.P. Chen, and Y.H. Ding, “The effect of 2/1 pre-existing magnetic islands width on the suppression of runaway electrons in disruption simulations of J-TEXT,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 62(9), 095010 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/aba365
A.Y. Pankin, J.R. King, S.E. Kruger, X. Chen, K.H. Burrell, A.M. Garofalo, R.J. Groebner, G.R. McKee, and Z. Yan, “Towards validated MHD modeling of edge harmonic oscillation in DIII-D QH-mode discharges,” Nuclear Fusion 60(9), 092004 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ab9afe
R. Han, P. Zhu, D. Banerjee, S. Cheng, X. Yan, and L. Zheng, “Low-n global ideal MHD instabilities in the CFETR baseline scenario,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 62(8), 085016 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ab97f0
Z.H. Jiang, T.T. Yang, J.J. Yuan, C.H. Li, X. Ye, J. Huang, Y. Liang, V.A. Izzo, M.X. Huang, R.H. Tong, Y. Huang, Q.X. Cai, X.T. Yan, L.Z. Zhu, Z.J. Yang, Y.H. Ding, P. Zhu, and Z.Y. Chen, “Minor disruptions triggered by supersonic molecular beam injection on J-TEXT tokamak,” Nuclear Fusion 60(6), 066004 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ab7d19
C. Akçay, J.M. Finn, A.J. Cole, and D.P. Brennan, “Nonlinear error field response in the presence of plasma rotation and real frequencies due to favorable curvature,” Physics of Plasmas 27(3), (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5144470
X. Lin, D. Banerjee, P. Zhu, G.S. Xu, Y. Ye, Y.F. Wang, H.L. Li, Q. Zang, T. Zhang, and Y.J. Chen, “Stabilizing effect of enhanced resistivity on peeling-ballooning instabilities on EAST,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 62(3), 035011 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ab6d47
Y. Hou, C.C. Kim, P. Zhu, Z. Zou, Y. Hu, and X. Yan, “Numerical study of transition between even and odd toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes on EAST,” Physics of Plasmas 26(8), (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5108693
Z.H. Jiang, J. Huang, R.H. Tong, T.T. Yang, Z.F. Lin, V. Izzo, C.H. Li, Y.F. Liang, X. Ye, Y.H. Ding, Z. Huang, L.Z. Zhu, and Z.Y. Chen, “Simulations of the effects of pre-seeded magnetic islands on the generation of runaway current during disruption on J-TEXT,” Physics of Plasmas 26(6), (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5100093
K. Morgan, T. Jarboe, and C. Akcay, “Formation of closed flux surfaces in spheromaks sustained by steady inductive helicity injection,” Nuclear Fusion 59(6), 066037 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ab1779
P. Zhu, Z. Wang, J. Chen, X. Yan, and R. Liu, “Quasi-separatrix layers induced by ballooning instability in the near-Earth magnetotail,” Annales Geophysicae 37(3), 325–335 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/angeo-37-325-2019
Y. Yang, Y. Hou, W. Chen, P. Zhu, X. Wang, Z. Zou, Y. Yu, M. Xu, and M. Ye, “Investigation of ion fishbone stability on HL-2A using NIMROD,” Plasma Science and Technology 21(8), 085101 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2058-6272/ab1295
A. Ali, and P. Zhu, “Effects of plasmoid formation on sawtooth process in a tokamak,” Physics of Plasmas 26(5), (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5091857
C.C. Kim, Y. Liu, P.B. Parks, L.L. Lao, M. Lehnen, and A. Loarte, “Shattered pellet injection simulations with NIMROD,” Physics of Plasmas 26(4), (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5088814
S. Cheng, P. Zhu, D. Banerjee, and X. Yan, “Dominant two-fluid magnetohydrodynamic instabilities in CFETR upgrade phase-I scenario in presence of perfect conducting wall,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 61(4), 045009 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ab0090
C.R. Sovinec, and K.J. Bunkers, “Effects of asymmetries in computations of forced vertical displacement events,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 61(2), 024003 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/aaf124
S. Yang, P. Zhu, J. Xie, and W. Liu, “Two-fluid MHD regime of resistive drift-wave instability,” Physics of Plasmas 25(9), (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5043323
M.T. Beidler, J.D. Callen, C.C. Hegna, and C.R. Sovinec, “Mode penetration induced by transient magnetic perturbations,” Physics of Plasmas 25(8), (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5046076
B. Li, Z. Jiang, J. Lv, X. Li, B. Rao, and Y. Ding, “Numerical simulation of plasma response to externally applied resonant magnetic perturbation on the J-TEXT tokamak,” Plasma Science and Technology 20(5), 054004 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2058-6272/aa97cf
J.B. O’Bryan, C.A. Romero-Talamás, and S. Woodruff, “Simulation of multi-pulse coaxial helicity injection in the Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment,” Physics of Plasmas 25(3), (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5018319
E.B. Hooper, “Plasma density injection and flow during coaxial helicity injection in a tokamak,” Physics of Plasmas 25(2), (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5018196
Y. Hou, P. Zhu, C.C. Kim, Z. Hu, Z. Zou, and Z. Wang, “NIMROD calculations of energetic particle driven toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes,” Physics of Plasmas 25(1), (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4999619
B. Luo, P. Zhu, H. Li, and W. Liu, “Resistive MHD modelling of the quasi-single helicity state in the KTX regimes,” Nuclear Fusion 58(1), 016049 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aa9291
K.D. Morgan, T.R. Jarboe, A.C. Hossack, R.N. Chandra, and C.J. Everson, “Validation of extended magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the HIT-SI3 experiment using the NIMROD code,” Physics of Plasmas 24(12), (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4997944
S. Cheng, P. Zhu, and D. Banerjee, “Enhanced toroidal flow stabilization of edge localized modes with increased plasma density,” Physics of Plasmas 24(9), (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4990978
X. Yan, P. Zhu, and Y. Sun, “Neoclassical toroidal viscosity torque in tokamak edge pedestal induced by external resonant magnetic perturbation,” Physics of Plasmas 24(8), (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4989449
V.A. Izzo, and P.B. Parks, “Modeling of rapid shutdown in the DIII-D tokamak by core deposition of high-Z material,” Physics of Plasmas 24(6), (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4990447
D. Banerjee, P. Zhu, and R. Maingi, “Stabilizing effect of resistivity towards ELM-free H-mode discharge in lithium-conditioned NSTX,” Nuclear Fusion 57(7), 076005 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aa6b25
M.T. Beidler, J.D. Callen, C.C. Hegna, and C.R. Sovinec, “Nonlinear modeling of forced magnetic reconnection in slab geometry with NIMROD,” Physics of Plasmas 24(5), (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4982814
D. Banerjee, P. Zhu, and R. Maingi, “Stabilizing effects of enhanced resistivity due to lithium-conditioning on low-n edge localized modes in NSTX,” Physics of Plasmas 24(5), (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4981931
J.R. King, S.E. Kruger, K.H. Burrell, X. Chen, A.M. Garofalo, R.J. Groebner, K.E.J. Olofsson, A.Y. Pankin, and P.B. Snyder, “MHD modeling of a DIII-D low-torque QH-mode discharge and comparison to observations,” Physics of Plasmas 24(5), (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4977467
J.P. Sauppe, and C.R. Sovinec, “Extended MHD modeling of tearing-driven magnetic relaxation,” Physics of Plasmas 24(5), (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4977540
V.A. Izzo, “The effect of pre-existing islands on disruption mitigation in MHD simulations of DIII-D,” Physics of Plasmas 24(5), (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4977462
P. Zhu, A. Bhattacharjee, A. Sangari, Z. Wang, and P. Bonofiglo, “Three-dimensional geometry of magnetic reconnection induced by ballooning instability in a generalized Harris sheet,” Physics of Plasmas 24(2), (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4976994
J.R. King, S.E. Kruger, R.J. Groebner, J.D. Hanson, J.D. Hebert, E.D. Held, and J.R. Jepson, “Effect of scrape-off-layer current on reconstructed tokamak equilibrium,” Physics of Plasmas 24(1), (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4972822
F. Ebrahimi, “Dynamo-driven plasmoid formation from a current-sheet instability,” Physics of Plasmas 23(12), (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4972218
E.B. Hooper, and C.R. Sovinec, “A current-driven resistive instability and its nonlinear effects in simulations of coaxial helicity injection in a tokamak,” Physics of Plasmas 23(10), (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4964292
J.R. King, K.H. Burrell, A.M. Garofalo, R.J. Groebner, S.E. Kruger, A.Y. Pankin, and P.B. Snyder, “NIMROD modeling of quiescent H-mode: reconstruction considerations and saturation mechanism,” Nuclear Fusion 57(2), 022002 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/57/2/022002
N.A. Roberds, L. Guazzotto, J.D. Hanson, J.L. Herfindal, E.C. Howell, D.A. Maurer, and C.R. Sovinec, “Simulations of sawtoothing in a current carrying stellarator,” Physics of Plasmas 23(9), (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4962990
C.R. Sovinec, “Stabilization of numerical interchange in spectral-element magnetohydrodynamics,” Journal of Computational Physics 319, 61–78 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2016.04.063
J.R. King, A.Y. Pankin, S.E. Kruger, and P.B. Snyder, “The impact of collisionality, FLR, and parallel closure effects on instabilities in the tokamak pedestal: Numerical studies with the NIMROD code,” Physics of Plasmas 23(6), (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4954302
F. Ebrahimi, and R. Raman, “Large-volume flux closure during plasmoid-mediated reconnection in coaxial helicity injection,” Nuclear Fusion 56(4), 044002 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/56/4/044002
J.P. Sauppe, and C.R. Sovinec, “Two-fluid and finite Larmor radius effects on helicity evolution in a plasma pinch,” Physics of Plasmas 23(3), (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4942761
T.G. Jenkins, and E.D. Held, “Coupling extended magnetohydrodynamic fluid codes with radiofrequency ray tracing codes for fusion modeling,” Journal of Computational Physics 297, 427–441 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2015.05.035
F. Ebrahimi, and R. Raman, “Plasmoids Formation During Simulations of Coaxial Helicity Injection in the National Spherical Torus Experiment,” Physical Review Letters 114(20), (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.205003
E.D. Held, S.E. Kruger, J.-Y. Ji, E.A. Belli, and B.C. Lyons, “Verification of continuum drift kinetic equation solvers in NIMROD,” Physics of Plasmas 22(3), (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4914165
P. Zhu, C.R. Sovinec, and C.C. Hegna, “The formation of blobs from a pure interchange process,” Physics of Plasmas 22(2), (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4913476
F. Ebrahimi, R. Raman, E.B. Hooper, C.R. Sovinec, and A. Bhattacharjee, “Physics of forced magnetic reconnection in coaxial helicity injection experiments in National Spherical Torus Experiment,” Physics of Plasmas 21(5), (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4875337
E.C. Howell, and C.R. Sovinec, “Solving the Grad–Shafranov equation with spectral elements,” Computer Physics Communications 185(5), 1415–1421 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2014.02.008
J.B. O’Bryan, and C.R. Sovinec, “Simulated flux-rope evolution during non-inductive startup in Pegasus,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 56(6), 064005 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/56/6/064005
P. Zhu, and J. Raeder, “Ballooning instability‐induced plasmoid formation in near‐Earth plasma sheet,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 119(1), 131–141 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013JA019511
E.B. Hooper, C.R. Sovinec, R. Raman, F. Ebrahimi, and J.E. Menard, “Resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations of helicity-injected startup plasmas in National Spherical Torus eXperiment,” Physics of Plasmas 20(9), (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4821977
F. Ebrahimi, E.B. Hooper, C.R. Sovinec, and R. Raman, “Magnetic reconnection process in transient coaxial helicity injection,” Physics of Plasmas 20(9), (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4821974
C. Akcay, C.C. Kim, B.S. Victor, and T.R. Jarboe, “Validation of single-fluid and two-fluid magnetohydrodynamic models of the helicity injected torus spheromak experiment with the NIMROD code,” Physics of Plasmas 20(8), (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4817951
P. Zhu, and J. Raeder, “Plasmoid Formation in Current Sheet with Finite Normal Magnetic Component,” Physical Review Letters 110(23), (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.235005
V.A. Izzo, “Impurity mixing and radiation asymmetry in massive gas injection simulations of DIII-D,” Physics of Plasmas 20(5), (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4803896
M.G. Schlutt, C.C. Hegna, C.R. Sovinec, E.D. Held, and S.E. Kruger, “Self-consistent simulations of nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics and profile evolution in stellarator configurations,” Physics of Plasmas 20(5), (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4802834
M.G. Schlutt, C.C. Hegna, C.R. Sovinec, S.F. Knowlton, and J.D. Hebert, “Numerical simulation of current evolution in the Compact Toroidal Hybrid,” Nuclear Fusion 52(10), 103023 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/52/10/103023
J.B. O’Bryan, C.R. Sovinec, and T.M. Bird, “Simulation of current-filament dynamics and relaxation in the Pegasus Spherical Tokamak,” Physics of Plasmas 19(8), (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4746089
N.A. Murphy, M.P. Miralles, C.L. Pope, J.C. Raymond, H.D. Winter, K.K. Reeves, D.B. Seaton, A.A. van Ballegooijen, and J. Lin, “ASYMMETRIC MAGNETIC RECONNECTION IN SOLAR FLARE AND CORONAL MASS EJECTION CURRENT SHEETS,” The Astrophysical Journal 751(1), 56 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/751/1/56
J.R. King, C.R. Sovinec, and V.V. Mirnov, “First-order finite-Larmor-radius fluid modeling of tearing and relaxation in a plasma pinch,” Physics of Plasmas 19(5), (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3695346
P. Zhu, C.C. Hegna, and C.R. Sovinec, “Stabilizing effects of edge current density on pedestal instabilities,” Physics of Plasmas 19(3), (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3692089
D.P. Brennan, C.C. Kim, and R.J. La Haye, “Energetic particle effects on n = 1 resistive MHD instabilities in a DIII-D hybrid discharge,” Nuclear Fusion 52(3), 033004 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/52/3/033004
I.V. Khalzov, B.P. Brown, N. Katz, and C.B. Forest, “Modeling the Parker instability in a rotating plasma screw pinch,” Physics of Plasmas 19(2), (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3684240
R.A. Bayliss, C.R. Sovinec, and A.J. Redd, “Zero-β modeling of coaxial helicity injection in the HIT-II spherical torus,” Physics of Plasmas 18(9), (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3626563
E.B. Hooper, “Physics issues of a spheromak refluxing scenario,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 53(8), 085008 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/53/8/085008
D.A. D’Ippolito, J.R. Myra, and S.J. Zweben, “Convective transport by intermittent blob-filaments: Comparison of theory and experiment,” Physics of Plasmas 18(6), (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3594609
V.A. Izzo, E.M. Hollmann, A.N. James, J.H. Yu, D.A. Humphreys, L.L. Lao, P.B. Parks, P.E. Sieck, J.C. Wesley, R.S. Granetz, G.M. Olynyk, and D.G. Whyte, “Runaway electron confinement modelling for rapid shutdown scenarios in DIII-D, Alcator C-Mod and ITER,” Nuclear Fusion 51(6), 063032 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/51/6/063032
J.R. King, C.R. Sovinec, and V.V. Mirnov, “First-order finite-Larmor-radius effects on magnetic tearing in pinch configurations,” Physics of Plasmas 18(4), (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3571599
I.V. Khalzov, B.P. Brown, F. Ebrahimi, D.D. Schnack, and C.B. Forest, “Numerical simulation of laminar plasma dynamos in a cylindrical von Kármán flow,” Physics of Plasmas 18(3), (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3559472
N.A. Murphy, “Resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations of X-line retreat during magnetic reconnection,” Physics of Plasmas 17(11), (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3494570
C.R. Sovinec, and J.R. King, “Analysis of a mixed semi-implicit/implicit algorithm for low-frequency two-fluid plasma modeling,” Journal of Computational Physics 229(16), 5803–5819 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2010.04.022
R.D. Milroy, C.C. Kim, and C.R. Sovinec, “Extended magnetohydrodynamic simulations of field reversed configuration formation and sustainment with rotating magnetic field current drive,” Physics of Plasmas 17(6), (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3436630
V.A. Izzo, and P.B. Parks, “Comment on ‘Plasma current spikes due to internal reconnection during tokamak disruptions,’” Nuclear Fusion 50(5), 058001 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/50/5/058001
B.J. Burke, S.E. Kruger, C.C. Hegna, P. Zhu, P.B. Snyder, C.R. Sovinec, and E.C. Howell, “Edge localized linear ideal magnetohydrodynamic instability studies in an extended-magnetohydrodynamic code,” Physics of Plasmas 17(3), 032103 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3309732
T.G. Jenkins, S.E. Kruger, C.C. Hegna, D.D. Schnack, and C.R. Sovinec, “Calculating electron cyclotron current drive stabilization of resistive tearing modes in a nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic model,” Physics of Plasmas 17(1), (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3276740
V.A. Izzo, P.B. Parks, and L.L. Lao, “DIII-D and ITER rapid shutdown with radially uniform deuterium delivery,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 51(10), 105004 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/51/10/105004
P. Zhu, C.C. Hegna, C.R. Sovinec, A. Bhattacharjee, and K. Germaschewski, “Intermediate nonlinear regimes of line-tied g mode and ballooning instability,” Nuclear Fusion 49(9), 095009 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/49/9/095009
C.S. Carey, and C.R. Sovinec, “ROTATIONAL STABILIZATION OF MAGNETICALLY COLLIMATED JETS,” The Astrophysical Journal 699(1), 362–372 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/699/1/362
E.B. Hooper, C.A. Romero-Talamás, L.L. LoDestro, R.D. Wood, and H.S. McLean, “Aspect-ratio effects in the driven, flux-core spheromak,” Physics of Plasmas 16(5), (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3134064
B.I. Cohen, C.A. Romero-Talamás, D.D. Ryutov, E.B. Hooper, L.L. LoDestro, H.S. McLean, T.L. Stewart, and R.D. Wood, “The role of the nϕ=1 column mode in spheromak formation,” Physics of Plasmas 16(4), (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3097909
R. Takahashi, D.P. Brennan, and C.C. Kim, “Kinetic Effects of Energetic Particles on Resistive MHD Stability,” Physical Review Letters 102(13), (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.135001
V.A. Izzo, and I. Joseph, “RMP enhanced transport and rotational screening in simulations of DIII-D plasmas,” Nuclear Fusion 48(11), 115004 (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/48/11/115004
A.I.D. Macnab, and S. Woodruff, “Simulations of the Supersonic Translation, Collision, and Merging of Two Field-Reversed Configurations for Plasma Heating,” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 36(4), 1208–1209 (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2008.924415
C.C. Kim, “Impact of velocity space distribution on hybrid kinetic-magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the (1,1) mode,” Physics of Plasmas 15(7), (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2949704
J.M. Reynolds, C.R. Sovinec, and S.C. Prager, “Nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics of pulsed parallel current drive in reversed-field pinches,” Physics of Plasmas 15(6), (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2937770
N.A. Murphy, and C.R. Sovinec, “Global axisymmetric simulations of two-fluid reconnection in an experimentally relevant geometry,” Physics of Plasmas 15(4), (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2904600
V.A. Izzo, D.G. Whyte, R.S. Granetz, P.B. Parks, E.M. Hollmann, L.L. Lao, and J.C. Wesley, “Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of massive gas injection into Alcator C-Mod and DIII-D plasmas,” Physics of Plasmas 15(5), (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2841526
E.B. Hooper, B.I. Cohen, H.S. McLean, R.D. Wood, C.A. Romero-Talamás, and C.R. Sovinec, “NIMROD resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations of spheromak physics,” Physics of Plasmas 15(3), (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2890772
A.I.D. Macnab, R.D. Milroy, C.C. Kim, and C.R. Sovinec, “Hall magnetohydrodynamics simulations of end-shorting induced rotation in field-reversed configurations,” Physics of Plasmas 14(9), (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2768017
R.D. Milroy, A.I.D. Macnab, C.C. Kim, and C.R. Sovinec, “FRC Simulations using the NIMROD Code,” Journal of Fusion Energy 27(1–2), 73–76 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10894-007-9089-y
C.C. Kim, “Preliminary Simulations of FLR Effects on RFP Tearing Modes,” Journal of Fusion Energy 27(1–2), 61–64 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10894-007-9117-y
C.R. Sovinec, D.C. Barnes, R.A. Bayliss, D.P. Brennan, E.D. Held, S.E. Kruger, A.Y. Pankin, D.D. Schnackand, and the N. Team, “Two-fluid studies of edge relaxation events in tokamaks,” Journal of Physics: Conference Series 78, 012070 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/78/1/012070
P. Zhu, C.R. Sovinec, C.C. Hegna, A. Bhattacharjee, and K. Germaschewski, “Nonlinear ballooning instability in the near‐Earth magnetotail: Growth, structure, and possible role in substorms,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 112(A6), (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2006JA011991
D.P. Brennan, S.E. Kruger, D.D. Schnack, C.R. Sovinec, and A. Pankin, “Computing nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic edge localized instabilities in fusion plasmas,” Journal of Physics: Conference Series 46, 63–72 (2006). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/46/1/009
D.D. Schnack, D.C. Barnes, D.P. Brennan, C.C. Hegna, E. Held, C.C. Kim, S.E. Kruger, A.Y. Pankin, and C.R. Sovinec, “Computational modeling of fully ionized magnetized plasmas using the fluid approximation,” Physics of Plasmas 13(5), (2006). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2183738
V.A. Izzo, “A numerical investigation of the effects of impurity penetration depth on disruption mitigation by massive high-pressure gas jet,” Nuclear Fusion 46(5), 541–547 (2006). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/46/5/006
E.B. Hooper, T.A. Kopriva, B.I. Cohen, D.N. Hill, H.S. McLean, R.D. Wood, S. Woodruff, and C.R. Sovinec, “Magnetic reconnection during flux conversion in a driven spheromak,” Physics of Plasmas 12(9), (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2040207
D.P. Brennan, S.E. Kruger, T.A. Gianakon, and D.D. Schnack, “A categorization of tearing mode onset in tokamaks via nonlinear simulation,” Nuclear Fusion 45(9), 1178–1190 (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/45/9/018
S.E. Kruger, D.D. Schnack, and C.R. Sovinec, “Dynamics of the major disruption of a DIII-D plasma,” Physics of Plasmas 12(5), (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1873872
V.A. Izzo, and T.R. Jarboe, “Three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the Helicity Injected Torus with Steady Inductive drive,” Physics of Plasmas 12(5), (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1882312
B.I. Cohen, E.B. Hooper, R.H. Cohen, D.N. Hill, H.S. McLean, R.D. Wood, S. Woodruff, C.R. Sovinec, and G.A. Cone, “Simulation of spheromak evolution and energy confinement,” Physics of Plasmas 12(5), (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1869501
C.R. Sovinec, B.I. Cohen, G.A. Cone, E.B. Hooper, and H.S. McLean, “Numerical Investigation of Transients in the SSPX Spheromak,” Physical Review Letters 94(3), (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.035003
C.R. Sovinec, D.D. Schnack, A.Y. Pankin, D.P. Brennan, H. Tian, D.C. Barnes, S.E. Kruger, E.D. Held, C.C. Kim, X.S. Li, D.K. Kaushik, S.C. Jardin, and the N. Team, “Nonlinear extended magnetohydrodynamics simulation using high-order finite elements,” Journal of Physics: Conference Series 16, 25–34 (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/16/1/003
S.E. Kruger, C.R. Sovinec, D.D. Schnack, and E.D. Held, “Free-boundary simulations of DIII-D plasmas with the NIMROD code,” Computer Physics Communications 164(1–3), 34–39 (2004). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2004.06.006
C.C. Kim, C.R. Sovinec, and S.E. Parker, “Hybrid kinetic-MHD simulations in general geometry,” Computer Physics Communications 164(1–3), 448–455 (2004). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2004.06.059
E.D. Held, J.D. Callen, C.C. Hegna, C.R. Sovinec, T.A. Gianakon, and S.E. Kruger, “Nonlocal closures for plasma fluid simulations,” Physics of Plasmas 11(5), 2419–2426 (2004). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1645520
C.R. Sovinec, A.H. Glasser, T.A. Gianakon, D.C. Barnes, R.A. Nebel, S.E. Kruger, D.D. Schnack, S.J. Plimpton, A. Tarditi, and M.S. Chu, “Nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics simulation using high-order finite elements,” Journal of Computational Physics 195(1), 355–386 (2004). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2003.10.004
V.A. Izzo, and T.R. Jarboe, “A numerical assessment of the Lundquist number requirement for relaxation current drive,” Physics of Plasmas 10(7), 2903–2911 (2003). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1578636
C.R. Sovinec, T.A. Gianakon, E.D. Held, S.E. Kruger, and D.D. Schnack, “NIMROD: A computational laboratory for studying nonlinear fusion magnetohydrodynamics,” Physics of Plasmas 10(5), 1727–1732 (2003). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1560920
T.A. Gianakon, S.E. Kruger, and C.C. Hegna, “Heuristic closures for numerical simulations of neoclassical tearing modes,” Physics of Plasmas 9(2), 536–547 (2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1424924
C.R. Sovinec, J.M. Finn, and D. del-Castillo-Negrete, “Formation and sustainment of electrostatically driven spheromaks in the resistive magnetohydrodynamic model,” Physics of Plasmas 8(2), 475–490 (2001). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1335585
J.M. Finn, C.R. Sovinec, and D. del-Castillo-Negrete, “Chaotic Scattering and Self-Organization in Spheromak Sustainment,” Physical Review Letters 85(21), 4538–4541 (2000). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4538
A.H. Glasser, C.R. Sovinec, R.A. Nebel, T.A. Gianakon, S.J. Plimpton, M.S. Chu, D.D. Schnack, and the N. Team, “The NIMROD code: a new approach to numerical plasma physics,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 41(3A), A747–A755 (1999). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/41/3A/067
J. McClenaghan, B.C. Lyons, C.C. Kim, C. Akçay, N. Eidietis, L.L. Lao, R.M. Sweeney, B. Stein-Lubrano, U. Sheikh, N. Hawkes, and G. Szepesi, “MHD modeling of shattered pellet injection in JET,” Nuclear Fusion 63(6), 066029 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/accbd3
F. Ebrahimi, and M. Pharr, “A Nonlocal Magneto-curvature Instability in a Differentially Rotating Disk,” The Astrophysical Journal 936(2), 145 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac892d
N.C. Hurst, B.E. Chapman, A.F. Almagri, B.S. Cornille, S.Z. Kubala, K.J. McCollam, J.S. Sarff, C.R. Sovinec, J.K. Anderson, D.J. Den Hartog, C.B. Forest, M.D. Pandya, and W.S. Solsrud, “Self-organized magnetic equilibria in tokamak plasmas with very low edge safety factor,” Physics of Plasmas 29(8), (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0101880
P. Zhu, L. Li, Y. Fang, Y. He, S. Wang, R. Han, Y. Liu, X. Wang, Y. Zhang, X. Zhang, Q. Yu, L. Hu, H. Wang, Y. Sun, L. Wei, W. Tang, T. Liu, Z. Wang, X. Yan, W. Huang, Y. Hou, X. Ji, S. Zeng, Z. Abdullah, Z. Chen, L. Zeng, H. Li, Z. Chen, Z. Wang, B. Rao, M. Zhang, Y. Ding, and Y. Pan, “MHD Analysis on the Physics Design of CFETR Baseline Scenarios,” Journal of Fusion Energy 41(1), (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10894-022-00323-x
X. Lin, G.S. Xu, Q.Q. Yang, N. Yan, Y.F. Wang, Y. Ye, P. Zhu, B. Cao, K.D. Li, R. Chen, L. Zhang, Q. Zang, T. Zhang, Y.M. Wang, G.H. Hu, Y.Y. Li, C. Zhou, Y.J. Chen, L.Y. Meng, X.D. Yang, Y.M. Duan, H.Q. Liu, F. Ding, X.H. Chen, J.C. Xu, M.F. Wu, and L. Wang, “Physical mechanisms for the transition from type-III to large ELMs induced by impurity injection on EAST,” Physics Letters A 431, 127988 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2022.127988
E.E. Peterson, D.A. Endrizzi, M. Clark, J. Egedal, K. Flanagan, N.F. Loureiro, J. Milhone, J. Olson, C.R. Sovinec, J. Wallace, and C.B. Forest, “Laminar and turbulent plasmoid ejection in a laboratory Parker Spiral current sheet,” Journal of Plasma Physics 87(4), (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022377821000775
H. Li, and P. Zhu, “Formation of edge pressure pedestal and reversed magnetic shear due to toroidal rotation in a tokamak equilibrium,” Physics of Plasmas 28(5), (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0043424
F.J. Artola, C.R. Sovinec, S.C. Jardin, M. Hoelzl, I. Krebs, and C. Clauser, “3D simulations of vertical displacement events in tokamaks: A benchmark of M3D-C1, NIMROD, and JOREK,” Physics of Plasmas 28(5), (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0037115
J. Boguski, M.D. Nornberg, U. Gupta, K.J. McCollam, A.F. Almagri, B.E. Chapman, D. Craig, T. Nishizawa, J.S. Sarff, C.R. Sovinec, P.W. Terry, and Z.A. Xing, “Direct measurements of the 3D plasma velocity in single-helical-axis RFP plasmas,” Physics of Plasmas 28(1), (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0025696
K. Flanagan, J. Milhone, J. Egedal, D. Endrizzi, J. Olson, E.E. Peterson, R. Sassella, and C.B. Forest, “Weakly Magnetized, Hall Dominated Plasma Couette Flow,” Physical Review Letters 125(13), (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.135001
A.A. Kaptanoglu, T.E. Benedett, K.D. Morgan, C.J. Hansen, and T.R. Jarboe, “Two-temperature effects in Hall-MHD simulations of the HIT-SI experiment,” Physics of Plasmas 27(7), (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0006311
T.E. Benedett, C.J. Hansen, K.D. Morgan, and T.R. Jarboe, “Effects of temperature and density evolution in MHD simulations of HIT-SI,” Physics of Plasmas 27(4), (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5142298
S. Munaretto, B.E. Chapman, B.S. Cornille, A.M. DuBois, K.J. McCollam, C.R. Sovinec, A.F. Almagri, and J.A. Goetz, “Generation and suppression of runaway electrons in MST tokamak plasmas,” Nuclear Fusion 60(4), 046024 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ab73c0
I. Krebs, F.J. Artola, C.R. Sovinec, S.C. Jardin, K.J. Bunkers, M. Hoelzl, and N.M. Ferraro, “Axisymmetric simulations of vertical displacement events in tokamaks: A benchmark of M3D-C1, NIMROD, and JOREK,” Physics of Plasmas 27(2), (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5127664
E.E. Peterson, D.A. Endrizzi, M. Beidler, K.J. Bunkers, M. Clark, J. Egedal, K. Flanagan, K.J. McCollam, J. Milhone, J. Olson, C.R. Sovinec, R. Waleffe, J. Wallace, and C.B. Forest, “A laboratory model for the Parker spiral and magnetized stellar winds,” Nature Physics 15(10), 1095–1100 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0592-7
B.C. Lyons, C.C. Kim, Y.Q. Liu, N.M. Ferraro, S.C. Jardin, J. McClenaghan, P.B. Parks, and L.L. Lao, “Axisymmetric benchmarks of impurity dynamics in extended-magnetohydrodynamic simulations,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 61(6), 064001 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ab0e42
Z.Y. Chen, Z.F. Lin, D.W. Huang, R.H. Tong, Q.M. Hu, Y.N. Wei, W. Yan, A.J. Dai, X.Q. Zhang, B. Rao, Z.J. Yang, L. Gao, Y.B. Dong, L. Zeng, Y.H. Ding, Z.J. Wang, M. Zhang, G. Zhuang, Y. Liang, Y. Pan, and Z.H. Jiang, “Suppression of runaway electrons by mode locking during disruptions on J-TEXT,” Nuclear Fusion 58(8), 082002 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aab2fc
D. del-Castillo-Negrete, L. Carbajal, D. Spong, and V. Izzo, “Numerical simulation of runaway electrons: 3-D effects on synchrotron radiation and impurity-based runaway current dissipation,” Physics of Plasmas 25(5), (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5018747
E.C. Howell, and C.R. Sovinec, “Parameter-space survey of linear G-mode and interchange in extended magnetohydrodynamics,” Physics of Plasmas 24(10), (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4993440
C. Akçay, J.M. Finn, R.A. Nebel, and D.C. Barnes, “Electrostatically driven helical plasma state,” Physics of Plasmas 24(5), (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4981384
V.V. Mirnov, J.P. Sauppe, C.C. Hegna, and C.R. Sovinec, “Analytical and numerical treatment of resistive drift instability in a plasma slab,” Plasma Physics Reports 42(5), 440–449 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X16050123
C. Hansen, B. Victor, K. Morgan, T. Jarboe, A. Hossack, G. Marklin, B.A. Nelson, and D. Sutherland, “Numerical studies and metric development for validation of magnetohydrodynamic models on the HIT-SI experimenta),” Physics of Plasmas 22(5), 056105 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4919277
B.S. Victor, C. Akcay, C.J. Hansen, T.R. Jarboe, B.A. Nelson, and K.D. Morgan, “Development of validation metrics using biorthogonal decomposition for the comparison of magnetic field measurements,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 57(4), 045010 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/57/4/045010
K.M. Velas, and R.D. Milroy, “Probe measurements of the three-dimensional magnetic field structure in a rotating magnetic field sustained field-reversed configuration,” Physics of Plasmas 21(1), 012502 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4861131
D.D. Schnack, J. Cheng, D.C. Barnes, and S.E. Parker, “Comparison of kinetic and extended magnetohydrodynamics computational models for the linear ion temperature gradient instability in slab geometry,” Physics of Plasmas 20(6), (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4811468
P. Zhu, J. Raeder, C.C. Hegna, and C.R. Sovinec, “Nature of axial tail instability and bubble‐blob formation in near‐Earth plasma sheet,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 118(2), 653–663 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2012JA017972
E.B. Hooper, R.H. Bulmer, B.I. Cohen, D.N. Hill, C.T. Holcomb, B. Hudson, H.S. McLean, L.D. Pearlstein, C.A. Romero-Talamás, C.R. Sovinec, B.W. Stallard, R.D. Wood, and S. Woodruff, “Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment (SSPX): design and physics results,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 54(11), 113001 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/54/11/113001
R.J. La Haye, R.J. Buttery, S.P. Gerhardt, S.A. Sabbagh, and D.P. Brennan, “Aspect ratio effects on neoclassical tearing modes from comparison between DIII-D and National Spherical Torus Experiment,” Physics of Plasmas 19(6), (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4729658
N.A. Murphy, C.R. Sovinec, and P.A. Cassak, “Magnetic reconnection with asymmetry in the outflow direction,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 115(A9), (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009JA015183
P. Zhu, C.C. Hegna, and C.R. Sovinec, “Exponential Growth of Nonlinear Ballooning Instability,” Physical Review Letters 102(23), (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.235003
J.H. Yu, M.A. Van Zeeland, M.S. Chu, V.A. Izzo, and R.J. La Haye, “Fast imaging of transients and coherent magnetohydrodynamic modes in DIII-D,” Physics of Plasmas 16(5), (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3118626
J.-Y. Ji, E.D. Held, and C.R. Sovinec, “Moment approach to deriving parallel heat flow for general collisionality,” Physics of Plasmas 16(2), 022312 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3079072
P. Zhu, D.D. Schnack, F. Ebrahimi, E.G. Zweibel, M. Suzuki, C.C. Hegna, and C.R. Sovinec, “Absence of Complete Finite-Larmor-Radius Stabilization in Extended MHD,” Physical Review Letters 101(8), (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.085005
T.K. Fowler, R. Jayakumar, and H.S. McLean, “Stable Spheromaks Sustained by Neutral Beam Injection,” Journal of Fusion Energy 28(1), 118–123 (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10894-008-9157-y
B. Hudson, R.D. Wood, H.S. McLean, E.B. Hooper, D.N. Hill, J. Jayakumar, J. Moller, D. Montez, C.A. Romero-Talamás, T.A. Casper, J.A. Johnson, L.L. LoDestro, E. Mezonlin, and L.D. Pearlstein, “Energy confinement and magnetic field generation in the SSPX spheromak,” Physics of Plasmas 15(5), (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2890121
R.D. Milroy, and L.C. Steinhauer, “Toroidal field stabilization of the rotational instability in field-reversed configurations,” Physics of Plasmas 15(2), (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2842361
C.A. Romero-Talamás, E.B. Hooper, R. Jayakumar, H.S. McLean, R.D. Wood, and J.M. Moller, “Measurements and phenomenological modeling of magnetic flux buildup in spheromak plasmas,” Physics of Plasmas 15(4), 042503 (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2904917
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