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Effects of plasma current on nonlinear interactions of ITG turbulence, zonal flows and geodesic acoustic modes

Olivier Sauter, Laurent Villard, Trach-Minh Tran, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Angelino

The mutual interactions of ion temperature gradient (ITG) driven modes, zonal flows and geodesic acoustic modes (GAM) in tokamak plasmas are investigated using a global nonlinear gyrokinetic formulation with totally unconstrained evolution of temperature g ...

Institute of Physics2006

Étude du transport d'énergie thermique dans les plasmas du tokamak à configuration variable au moyen de chauffage électronique cyclotronique

Yann Camenen

The development of controlled thermonuclear fusion, a quasi-unlimited energy source suitable for large scale electricity production, is one of the main goals of plasma physics research. Among the directions explored to date, the use of toroidal devices cal ...

EPFL2006

Bootstrap current compensation with electron-cyclotron waves in 3D reactor-size configurations

Sergi Ferrando I Margalet

In magnetic confinement devices, the inhomogeneity of the confining magnetic field along a magnetic field line generates the trapping of particles (with low ratio of parallel to perpendicular velocities) within local magnetic wells. One of the consequences ...

EPFL2006

The role of the radial electric field for the transition to high confinement regimes

Duccio Testa

The radial electric field E-r(x, t), and particularly its gradient, has been invoked by various theories and empirical models as a crucial parameter 'per se' for determining the transition to high confinement regimes, such as the onset of an internal trans ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2006

Finite-element analysis and comparison of the AC loss performance of BSCCO and YBCO conductors

Bertrand Dutoit, Bertrand Dutoit, Francesco Grilli

The AC loss performance of two BSCCO and two YBCO conductors of different geometry, characterized by the same self-field critical current of 150 A, is analysed and compared quantitatively. The comparison is made using the finite-element method with a non-l ...

Instutute of Physics Publishing2006

Lattice-matched AlInN alloys for nitride-based optoelectronic devices

Julien Dorsaz

Gallium Nitride (GaN) and its ternary alloys with aluminium and indium have met a growing interest in the last decade. These semiconductors have a large direct bandgap and can be doped with either silicon (Si) for n-type and magnesium (Mg) for p-type layer ...

EPFL2006

High-bootstrap, noninductively sustained electron internal transport barriers in the Tokamak a Configuration Variable

Olivier Sauter, Timothy Goodman, Stefano Coda, Roland Behn, Yann Camenen, Alberto Bottino, Emiliano Fable, Costanza Zucca, Andrei Martynov, Andrea Scarabosio, Petri Nikkola

Important ingredients of the advanced-tokamak route to fusion have been explored in depth in the Tokamak a Configuration Variable [F. Hofmann, J. B. Lister, M. Anton , Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion 36, B277 (1994)] over the past two years. Using a uniquel ...

American Institute of Physics2005

Rapid electron internal transport barrier formation during magnetic shear reversal in fully non-inductive TCV discharges

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Antoine Pochelon, Yann Camenen, Emiliano Fable, Costanza Zucca, Petri Nikkola

The rapid formation of an electron internal transport barrier (eITB) is observed during a slow evolution (similar or equal to 200 ms) from a centrally peaked to a hollow current density profile, while all external actuators remain constant. The time consta ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2005