Talk:Edge-localized mode

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References / Citations?

Is it preferable to call the footnotes section References or Citations? I've called it references, but don't know if there's a preferred format. I've cleaned up the formatting and used the standard footnote tags. Made References its own section header, etc. No other changes aside from converting to preferred use of reference tags. Mgmirkin 15:08, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Expand stub

Article still needs fleshing out, however. So if someone could help expand the stub, that would be great. It's an interesting topic! Mgmirkin 15:08, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ELM problem tackled in fusion research?

Nuclear fusion plasma problem tackled

Researchers at General Atomics, a company based in San Diego, California, US, discovered a simple way to prevent ELMs from occurring. By using a separate magnetic coil to induce small perturbations in the reactor's main magnetic field, they found they could bleed off enough of the plasma particles to prevent the ELMs from bursting out.
"We were very pleased to find out that we can actually use fairly small currents in these coils to completely prevent ELMs," says Todd Evans, a plasma physicist with the company. "We can eliminate them completely."

Perhaps this can be added to the article? New Scientist is relatively non-controversial as a source. Mgmirkin (talk) 17:54, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ELMs like solar flares?

Solar flare 'reproduced' in lab

The scientists were interested in a phenomenon called edge-localised modes (ELM) - a particular instability that can form in a plasma.
Understanding ELMs is important for the design of future fusion reactors.
The researchers believe that when the plasma reaches a certain critical instability, ELMs form.
They also realised that ELMs, like solar flares, are explosive events, which can eject particles and energy.
The filaments immediately reminded them of the huge plasma structures that loop over the Sun's surface.
Culham's Andrew Kirk said: "The similarities were striking. They looked like the filaments seen in detailed images of the Sun."

Should this anecdotal link between ELMs and impulsive solar events also be included in the article? Mgmirkin (talk) 17:59, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup?

The 'Impact' section seems way too conversational for an encyclopedia article. Need cleanup.

Examples:

...these instabilities can damage parts of the tokamak exposed to their extremely (high pressure, high energy, and temperature)? (believe divertors to be damaged parts, but not sure what diverters do?)...
A paper was recently published that suggested a novel method of countering this phenomenon by injecting (electrical? electromagnetic?) noisy energy into the containment field as a containment-stabilization regime; apparently, this decreases ELM succeptability.

A few typos as well... Mgmirkin (talk) 18:01, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Added a cleanup tag to that section. Mgmirkin (talk) 18:07, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Physics of ELMs

The Physics of Edge Localised Modes (ELMs)

Hope this helps improve the article... Mgmirkin (talk) 20:06, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orphan tag

Removing 'Orphan tag' based on the number of articles now linked here. Chuckiesdad (talk) 05:07, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Adding MHD link for Readability

Before I edited the article, the term "MHD" appeared without any explanation. Perhaps among experts in the subject, MHD is a common term. Being an amateur physics enthusiast, I would like MHD to be spelled out as with "magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)" or at the very least " MHD" for readability. I will take the liberty of making the appropriate change to the article. Feel free to change it back, but then please leave an explanation here. I acknowledge that some articles like quantum mechanics or Banach–Tarski_paradox could become unreadable if every single specialized term were hyperlinked, but this article is a stub and so I think this criterion does not apply. - Bitcrumbtrail (talk) 19:27, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New Research

I came across this article that perhaps should be incorporated into this page. Baccala@freesoft.org (talk) 20:17, 19 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]