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What’s the most difficult question you’ve been asked as a maintenance instructor?
Blye Widmar
"Where are the prints?!"
This was the final question in an onslaught of verbal feedback, comments, and critiques I received from my students back in 2019. I had two years of instructor experience and was teaching a class that had been meticulously rehearsed in preparation for an accreditation visit. I knew the training material well and transferred that knowledge effectively enough for all the students to pass the class. As we wrapped up, I asked the students how they felt about my first big system-level class, and they did not hold back.
“Why was the exam from memory when we don’t work from memory in the plant?” “Why didn’t we refer to the vendor documents?” “Why didn’t we practice more on the mock-up?” And so on.
Rami Ahmad El-Nabulsi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 8 | November 2025 | Pages 916-977
Regular Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2025.2502288
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The emergence of magnetic chaotic lines and layers in tokamaks represents an important field of research in nuclear fusion. Their analysis is based in general on the notion of maps and mappings, which are practical in analyzing the correlation between stable and unstable manifolds and the chaotic layers. Various maps representing the Poincaré section of a continuous magnetic field line system have been introduced in the literature, yet the most renewed one is the tokamap introduced by Balescu et al. [Phys. Rev. Vol. E58, p. 951 (1998)]. However, this tokamap requires additional constraints to make it symplectic.
To remedy this problem, a new technique based on the Hamilton-Jacobi method has been recently introduced. However, several constraints must be imposed as well in the mapping model. In the present study, we analyze this problem based on the notion of nonstandard Hamiltonians, which have proved their relevance in the theory of differential equations and complex systems. Nonstandard tokamaps have been introduced where their Poincaré sections, bifurcation diagrams, and Lyapunov exponents have been obtained and discussed. We observed the emergence of thin area-filling sections dominated by chaotic magnetic field lines with symmetric and nonsymmetric structures near the island separatrix. Small islands emerge, proving the emergence of large chaotic regions.