K. Y. Watanabe

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1999 - 2009

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127

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Moment approach to the bootstrap current in nonaxisymmetric toroidal plasmas using deltaf Monte Carlo methods (2009)

Matsuyama, A., Isaev, M.Yu., Watanabe, K.Y., Hanatani, K., Suzuki, Y., Nakajima, N., ...

To evaluate the bootstrap current in nonaxisymmetric toroidal plasmas quantitatively, a deltaf Monte Carlo method is incorporated into the moment approach. From the drift-kinetic equation with the...

Construction of the Central Control System for the Large Helical Device (LHD) Fusion Experiment (2007)

K. Yamazaki, H. Yamada, K. Y. Watanabe, K. Nishimura, S. Yamaguchi, M. Shoji, ...

The world’s largest superconducting helical fusion facility, the Large Helical Device (LHD), is in the final stage of the 8-year construction schedule at the National Institute for Fusion Science...

Fluid magnetohydrodynamic stabilit in a heliotron with anisotropic fast particle species (2007)

Cooper, W. A., Graves, J. P., Jucker, M., Watanabe, K. Y., Narushima, Y., Yamaguchi, T.

The local and global fluid magnetohydrodynamic stability properties of anisotropic pressure plasmas are investigated with the Kruskal-Oberman and rigid hot particle Johnson et al energy principles. A...

Stability properties of anisotropic pressure stellarator plasmas with fluid and noninteractive energetic particles (2006)

Cooper, W. A., Graves, J. P., Tran, T. M., Gruber, R., Yamaguchi, T., Narushima, Y., ...

The three-dimensional (3-D) VMEC code has been modified to model an energetic species with a variant of a Bi-Maxwellian distribution function that satisfies the constraint B . del F-h = 0, and the...

Anisotropic pressure bi-Maxwellian distribution function model for three-dimensional equilibria (2006)

Cooper, W. A., Graves, J. P., Hirshman, S. P., Yamaguchi, T., Narushima, Y., Okamura, S., ...

A formulation of the anisotropic pressure magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium problem for three-dimensional plasmas with imposed nested magnetic surfaces is developed based on a bi-Maxwellian model of...

Overview of confinement and MHD stability in the Large Helical Device (2005)

Motojima,O., Ida,K., Watanabe,K. Y., Nagayama,Y., Komori,A., Morisaki,T., ...

This article based on the 2004 Fusion Energy Conference contributions (Vilamoura, Portugal, 1-6 November 2004)

Effects of global MHD instability on operational high beta-regime in LHD (2005)

Watanabe, K. Y., Sakakibara, S., Narushima, Y., Funaba, H., Narihara, K., Tanaka, K., ...

In the Large Helical Device (LHD), the highest operational averaged beta value has been expanded from 3.2% to 4% in the last 2 years by increasing the heating capability and exploring a new magnetic...

Three-dimensional anisotropic pressure equilibria that model balanced tangential neutral beam injection effects (2005)

Cooper, W. A., Hirshman, S. P., Yamaguchi, T., Narushima, Y., Okamura, S., Sakakibara, S., ...

Fixed boundary three-dimensional anisotropic pressure equilibria are computed that are consistent with a family of distribution functions that load particles preferentially towards v parallel to...

Review on the progress of the LHD experiment (2004)

Motojima, O., Yamada, H., Komori, A., Watanabe, K. Y., Mutoh, T., Takeiri, Y., ...

Recent progress in the Large Helical Device (LHD) experiment during the last 2 yr is reviewed. The LHD has been extending its operational regime toward fusion-relevant conditions while taking...

Magnetohydrodynamic stability of free-boundary quasi-axisymmetric stellarator equilibria with finite bootstrap current (2004)

Cooper, W. A., Margalet, S. F. I., Allfrey, S. J., Kisslinger, J., Wobig, H. F. G., Narushima, Y., ...

The impact of the bootstrap current is investigated on the equilibrium properties of a two-period quasi-axisymmetric stellarator reactor with free boundary and on the corresponding ideal...

A new class of quasi-omnigenous configurations (2003)

Isaev,M. Yu., Nührenberg,J., Mikhailov,M. I., Cooper,W. A., Watanabe,K. Y., Yokoyama,M., ...

An approximation to a quasi-omnigenous structure of the magnetic field strength has been numerically obtained by optimization of the magnetic configuration of a conventional heliotron/torsatron. This...

A demonstration of magnetic field optimization in LHD (2003)

Murakami,S., Yamada,H., Wakasa,A., Sasao,M., Isobe,M., Ozaki,T., ...

The behaviors of trapped particles in helical ripples are complicated and would enhance the radial transport of energetic particles and thermal plasma (neoclassical transport) in heliotrons. Thus the...

MHD instabilities and their effects on plasma confinement in the large helical device plasmas (2003)

Toi,K., Ohdachi,S., Yamamoto,S., Nakajima,N., Sakakibara,S., Watanabe,K. Y., ...

MHD stability of NBI heated plasmas and impacts of MHD modes on plasma confinement are intensively studied in the Large Helical Device (LHD). Three characteristic MHD instabilities were observed,...

A new class of quasi-omnigenous configurations (2003)

Isaev, M. Yu., Nührenberg, J., Mikhailov, M. I., Cooper, W. A., Watanabe, K. Y., Yokoyama, M., ...

An approximation to a quasi-omnigenous structure of the magnetic field strength has been numerically obtained by optimization of the magnetic configuration of a conventional heliotron/torsatron. This...

A demonstration of magnetic field optimization in LHD (2003)

Murakami, S., Yamada, H., Wakasa, A., Sasao, M., Isobe, M., Ozaki, T., ...

The behaviors of trapped particles in helical ripples are complicated and would enhance the radial transport of energetic particles and thermal plasma (neoclassical transport) in heliotrons. Thus the...

MHD instabilities and their effects on plasma confinement in the large helical device plasmas (2003)

Toi, K., Ohdachi, S., Yamamoto, S., Nakajima, N., Sakakibara, S., Watanabe, K. Y., ...

MHD stability of NBI heated plasmas and impacts of MHD modes on plasma confinement are intensively studied in the Large Helical Device (LHD). Three characteristic MHD instabilities were observed,...

Impact of heat deposition profile on global confinement of NBI heated plasmas in the LHD (2003)

Yamada, H., Murakami, S., Yamazaki, K., Kaneko, O., Miyazawa, J., Sakamoto, R., ...

Energy confinement and heat transport of net-current-free NBI heated plasmas in the large helical device (LHD) are discussed with emphasis on density and power deposition profile dependences....

Recent advances in the LHD experiment (2003)

Motojima, O., Ohyabu, N., Komori, A., Kaneko, O., Yamada, H., Kawahata, K., ...

In the first four years of the LHD experiment, several encouraging results have emerged, the most significant of which is that MHD stability and good transport are compatible in the inward shifted...

A new class of quasi-omnigenous configurations (2003)

Isaev, M. Y., Nuhrenberg, J., Mikhailov, M. I., Cooper, W. A., Watanabe, K. Y., Yokoyama, M., ...

An approximation to a quasi-omnigenous structure of the magnetic field strength has been numerically obtained by optimization of the magnetic configuration of a conventional heliotron/torsatron. This...

Neoclassical transport optimization of LHD (2002)

Murakami,S., Wakasa,A., Maaßberg,H., Beidler,C. D., Yamada,H., Watanabe,K. Y., ...

Neoclassical transport is studied for large helical device (LHD) configurations in which the magnetic axis has been shifted radially by determining the mono-energetic transport coefficient and the...

Neoclassical transport optimization of LHD (2002)

Murakami, S., Wakasa, A., Maaßberg, H., Beidler, C. D., Yamada, H., Watanabe, K. Y., ...

Neoclassical transport is studied for large helical device (LHD) configurations in which the magnetic axis has been shifted radially by determining the mono-energetic transport coefficient and the...

Microinstability studies for the large helical device (2002)

Rewoldt, G., Ku, L. P., Tang, W. M., Sugama, H., Nakajima, N., Watanabe, K. Y., ...

Fully kinetic assessments of the stability properties of toroidal drift modes have been obtained for cases for the large helical device (LHD). This calculation employs the comprehensive linear...

Configuration flexibility and extended regimes in Large Helical Device (2001)

Yamada, H., Komori, A., Ohyabu, N., Kaneko, O., Kawahata, K., Watanabe, K. Y., ...

Recent experimental results in the Large Helical Device have indicated that a large pressure gradient can be formed beyond the stability criterion for the Mercier (high-n) mode. While the stability...

Drift mode calculations for the Large Helical Device (2000)

Rewoldt, G., Ku, L. P., Tang, W. M., Sugama, H., Nakajima, N., Watanabe, K. Y., ...

A fully kinetic assessment of the stability properties of toroidal drift modes has been obtained for a case for the Large Helical Device [A. Iiyoshi et al., Nucl. Fusion 39, 1245 (1999)]. This...

Physics design of a high-beta quasi-axisymmetric stellarator (1999)

Reiman, A., Fu, G., Hirshman, S., Ku, L., Monticello, D., Mynick, H., ...

Key physics issues in the design of a high-beta quasi-axisymmetric stellarator configuration are discussed. The goal of the design study is a compact stellarator configuration with aspect ratio...