M.E. Fenstermacher

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — United States

Physics and Astronomy · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Magnetic confinement fusion research(336), Fusion materials and technologies(167), Superconducting Materials and Applications(120), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics(85), Particle accelerators and beam dynamics(68)

Publications439 total

Introduction and overview: Chapter 1 of the special issue: on the path to tokamak burning plasma operation
Nuclear Fusion·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Divertor characterization and access to dissipative divertor conditions in negative triangularity discharges in DIII-D
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion·2025Open Access
Progress in pedestal and edge physics: Chapter 3 of the special issue: on the path to tokamak burning plasma operation
Nuclear Fusion·2025· 7 citedOpen Access
The effect of divertor closure on the impurity stagnation point in detached L-mode discharges on DIII-D
Nuclear Materials and Energy·2025Open Access
Simulations of divertor designs that spatially separate power and particle exhaust using mid-leg divertor particle pumping
Nuclear Materials and Energy·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Overview of results from the 2023 DIII-D negative triangularity campaign
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion·2024· 26 citedOpen Access
High performance power handling in the absence of an H-mode edge in negative triangularity DIII-D plasmas
Nuclear Fusion·2024· 14 citedOpen Access
Compatibility of divertor detachment and ELM suppression in DIII-D high- <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>β</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mtext>p</mml:mtext> </mml:mrow> </mml:msub> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> plasmas with ITER-similar shape
Nuclear Fusion·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Validation of EDGDE2D-EIRENE predicted 2D distributions of electron temperature and density against divertor Thomson scattering measurements in the low-field side divertor leg in DIII-D
Nuclear Materials and Energy·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Study on divertor detachment and pedestal characteristics in the DIII-D upper closed divertor
Nuclear Fusion·2023· 14 citedOpen Access
Mitigation of plasma–wall interactions with low-Z powders in DIII-D high confinement plasmas
Nuclear Fusion·2022Open Access
Mitigation of plasma-wall interactions with low-Z powders in DIII-D high\n confinement plasmas
arXiv (Cornell University)·2022· 17 citedOpen Access
Achievements of actively controlled divertor detachment compatible with sustained high confinement core in DIII-D and EAST
Nuclear Fusion·2021· 24 citedOpen Access
DIII-D research advancing the physics basis for optimizing the tokamak approach to fusion energy
Nuclear Fusion·2021· 34 citedOpen Access
Observation of fully detached divertor integrated with improved core confinement for tokamak fusion plasmas
Physics of Plasmas·2021· 19 citedOpen Access
Integration of full divertor detachment with improved core confinement for tokamak fusion plasmas
Nature Communications·2021· 82 citedOpen Access
Enhanced Divertor Power Exhaust through Injection of Low-Z Powders in DIII-D
2021
Applications of Stochastic Differential Equations in the Kinetics of Magnetized Plasmas.
Deep Blue (University of Michigan)·2020
Progress in DIII-D towards validating divertor power exhaust predictions
Nuclear Fusion·2020· 14 citedOpen Access
Absolute Impurity Concentrations During Attached and Detached Divertor Conditions in DIII-D
APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts·2020· 1 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

A.W. Leonard(30), T.E. Evans(24), J.G. Watkins(21), C.J. Lasnier(21), J.A. Boedo(20), M. J. Schaffer(19), R. A. Moyer(18), W.P. West(18), M. Groth(16), P.B. Snyder(15), N.H. Brooks(14), K.H. Burrell(13), T.H. Osborne(13), T.H. Osborne(12), R. J. Groebner(12), P. Gohil(11), G. D. Porter(10), A. Loarte(9), G. R. McKee(9), R. C. Isler(9)