Publications

1. V. A. Soukhanovskii, H. W. Kugel, R. Kaita, R. Majeski, A. L. Roquemore, Supersonic gas injector for fueling and diagnostic applications on the National Spherical Torus Experiment, Review of Scientific Instruments, October 2004, Volume 75, Issue 10, pp. 4320-4323 [PDF ]

2. V. A. Soukhanovskii, H. W. Kugel, R. Kaita, R. Majeski, A. L. Roquemore, D. P. Stotler, Supersonic gas jet for fueling experiments on NSTX, Paper P2.190,  Proceedings of the 31st EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, 28 June - 2 July 2004, London, United Kingdom [PDF ]

3. V. A. Soukhanovskii, H. W. Kugel, R. Kaita, A. L. Roquemore, M. Bell, W. Blanchard, C. Bush, R. Gernhardt, G. Gettelfinger, T. Gray, R. Majeski, J. Menard, T. Provost, R. Raman, P. Sichta, Supersonic gas injector for plasma fueling, Paper SOFE05-086, Proceedings of the 21st IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE05), 26 - 29 September 2005, Knoxville, Tennessee [PDF ]

Presentations

1. V. A. Soukhanovskii, Supersonic Gas Injector for Improved Fueling and Plasma Diagnostics, FY 2002 NSTX Research Forum, November 2001, Princeton, New Jersey [PDF ]

2. V. A. Soukhanovskii, Supersonic Gas Nozzle for Fueling, NSTX Five Year Plan Ideas Forum, June 2002, Princeton, New Jersey [PDF ]

3. V. A. Soukhanovskii, H. W. Kugel, R. Kaita, R. Majeski, G. Gettelfinger, T. Gray, S. Zaidi, L. Smits, Supersonic gas nozzle as a fueling and diagnostic tool for NSTX, Poster LP1.012, 45th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, October 27-31, 2003, Albuquerque, New Mexico [PDF ]

4. T. Gray, R. Majeski, G. Gettelfinger, R. Kaita, H. Kugel, V. Soukhanovskii, S. Zaidi, Design and Testing of a Supersonic Gas Injector on CDX-U, Poster QP1.056, 45th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, October 27-31, 2003, Albuquerque, New Mexico

5. V. A. Soukhanovskii, H. W. Kugel, R. Kaita, R. Majeski, A. L. Roquemore, Supersonic gas injector for fueling and diagnostic applications on the National Spherical Torus Experiment, Poster G41,  The 15th Topical Conference on High-Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, 19-22 April 2004, San Diego, California

6. V. A. Soukhanovskii, H. W. Kugel, R. Kaita, R. Majeski, A. L. Roquemore, D. P. Stotler, Supersonic gas jet for fueling experiments on NSTX, Poster P2.190, 31st EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, 28 June - 2 July 2004, London, United Kingdom

7. V. A. Soukhanovskii, H. W. Kugel, R. Kaita, A. L. Roquemore, First results from NSTX supersonic gas jet fueling experiments, NSTX FY 2004 Results Review, 20-21 September 2004, Princeton, New Jersey [PDF ]

8. T. Gray, R. Majeski, G. Gettelfinger, R. Kaita, H. Kugel, V. Soukhanovskii, S. Zaidi, Design and Testing of a Supersonic Gas Injector on CDX-U, Poster PP1.028, 46th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, November 15 - 19, 2004, Savannah, Georgia

9. V. A. Soukhanovskii, H. W. Kugel, R. Kaita, A. L. Roquemore, M. Bell, W. Blanchard, C. Bush, R. Gernhardt, G. Gettelfinger, T. Gray, R. Majeski, J. Menard, T. Provost, R. Raman, P. Sichta, Supersonic gas injector for plasma fueling, Poster B14, The 21st IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE05), 26 - 29 September 2005, Knoxville, Tennessee [PDF ]

Photo gallery (accessible from the PPPL domain only)

• FY04 photos

• FY05 photos

FY 2004 Experimental Campaign

Movies (Acknowledgements: R. Kaita, T. Gray, M. Frost, A. L. Roquemore)

• Camera viewing geometry [PDF ]

• All movies are in .MOV format best viewed with Apple QuickTime Player software. Download the QuickTime Player for free here.

• Pulse 114449: Deuterium injection during plasma current rampdown (end of shot). [Movie]

• Pulse 114467: Deuterium injection during plasma current rampdown (end of shot). SGI setup: 2000 Torr, start 320 ms, duration 50 ms, R=160 cm. [Movie]

• Pulse 114470: Deuterium injection during plasma current rampdown (end of shot). SGI setup: 2000 Torr, start 320 ms, duration 50 ms, R=160 cm. [Movie]

• Pulse 114471: Deuterium injection during plasma current rampdown (end of shot). SGI setup: 2000 Torr, start 320 ms, duration 50 ms, R=160 cm. [Movie]

• Pulse 114473: Deuterium injection into L-mode 3 NBI source plasma. SGI setup: 2000 Torr, start 180 ms, duration 200 ms, R=160 cm. [Movie]

• Pulse 114475: Deuterium injection into ELMy H-mode 3 NBI source plasma. SGI setup: 2000 Torr, start 300 ms, duration 50 ms, R=160 cm. [Movie]

• Pulse 114489: Deuterium injection in the PF-only startup experiment. SGI setup: 2000 Torr, start 20 ms, duration 20 ms, R=160 cm. [Movie]

FY 2005 Experimental Campaign  

• XMP-36 "Re-commissioning of the Supersonic Gas Injector for FY05 operations", Reviewed and approved 03/15/2005 [PDF ]

• XP-516 "Plasma re-fueling with Supersonic Gas Jet", Reviewed and approved 02/24/2005 [PDF ]

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* This research is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contracts

   DE-AC02-76CH03073 at PPPL and No. W-7405-Eng-48 at LLNL