Technical Reports and White Papers

TECHNICAL REPORTS

1. “Report on Open Issues in the new ITER Baseline with a W-wall,” ITPA Transport and Confinement Topical Group & ITPA Pedestal and Edge Physics Topical Group, April 2024 (solicited by ITER Organization):
   “Tungsten transport in the pedestal,” R. M. McDermott, X. Xueqiao, C. Angioni, D. R. Ernst, C. S. Chang, M. Willensdorfer, S.Q. Korving, T. Odstrcil, B. Victor
   “Research and development program to address open questions,” R. McDermott, C. Angioni, C. S. Chang, Y. In and D. R. Ernst
2. Ernst, Darin; Bortolon, Alessandro; Chen, Xi; King, Jacob; Nelson, Andrew O.; Battaglia, Devon; Hubbard, Amanda; Final Technical Report for the 2022 Magnetic Fusion Energy Joint Research Target: Intrinsically Non-ELMing Enhanced Confinement Regimes, Prepared for the Fusion Energy Sciences Program, DOE Office of Science, September 30, 2022 (163 pp, 99 figures). General Atomics Report GA-C29760. To be available from https://science.osti.gov/fes/community-resources.
3. D. R. Ernst, Bo Li, Qingjiang Pan, Manaure Francisquez, Final Technical Report for the SciDAC Center for the Study of Plasma Microturbulence: A Summary of Contributions from MIT, DOE Cooperative Agreement DE-FC02-08ER54966, Supported by the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, DOE Office of Science, May 14, 2020, OSTI report number DOE-MIT-54966.

WHITE PAPERS

1. D. R. Ernst, White Paper #65: Developing Non-ELMing Enhanced Confinement Regimes for ITER, 2022 US ITER Research Needs Workshop.
2. H. L. Berk, D. R. Ernst, W. Houlberg, I. Hutchinson, R. La Haye, D. Mueller, R. Nazikian, N. Sauthoff, A. Turnbull, and J. Wesley, Burning Plasma Physics Technical Subgroup of the Magnetic Fusion Concepts Working Group Report, Proceedings of the 1999 Fusion Summer Study, July 11-23, 1999, Snowmass, Colorado. Reported on technical readiness for a national/international fusion demonstration experiment.
3. D. R. Ernst, 2016 U.S. DOE Exascale Workshop white paper submitted by invitation, Continuum Gyrokinetic Turbulence and Transport in Magnetic Fusion Research on Exascale Computers, December 21, 2015.