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Energetic particle instabilities in fusion plasmas

Remarkable progress has been made in diagnosing energetic particle instabilities on present-day machines and in establishing a theoretical framework for describing them. This overview describes the much improved diagnostics of Alfven instabilities and mode ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

Measurements of interactions between waves and energetic ions in basic plasma experiments

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Paolo Ricci, Kyle Gustafson, Yi Zhang

To measure the transport of fast ions by various types of waves, complementary experiments are conducted in linear and toroidal magnetic fields in the large plasma device and the toroidal plasma experiment. Lithium sources that are immersed in the plasma p ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2012

Suprathermal ion transport in simple magnetized torus configurations

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Paolo Ricci, Kyle Gustafson

Inspired by suprathermal ion experiments in the basic plasma experiment TORPEX, the transport of suprathermal ions in ideal interchange mode turbulence is theoretically examined in the simple magnetized torus configuration. We follow ion tracer trajectorie ...

American Institute of Physics2012

Simulation of plasma turbulence in scrape-off layer conditions: the GBS code, simulation results and code validation

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Sébastien Jolliet, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Annamaria Mosetto, Federico David Halpern

Based on the drift-reduced Braginskii equations, the Global Braginskii Solver, GBS, is able to model the scrape-off layer (SOL) plasma turbulence in terms of the interplay between the plasma outflow from the tokamak core, the turbulent transport, and the l ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2012

Plasma Isotopic Effect on the Damping Rate of Toroidal Alfven Eigenmodes with Intermediate Toroidal Mode Numbers

Patrick Blanchard, Ambrogio Fasoli, Duccio Testa, Theodoros Panis

This paper reports on the results of recent experiments performed on the JET tokamak on toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes (TAEs) with toroidal mode number (n) in the range up to |n|=7. The stability properties of these medium-nTAEs are investigated experimentally ...

2012

Analysis of damping rate measurements of toroidal Alfven eigenmodes as a function of n: part I

Ambrogio Fasoli, Duccio Testa, Theodoros Panis

Complementing the database approach that has been presented in part I, this paper probes into individual plasma discharges and investigates the damping rate variations that are driven by the evolving plasma configurations. In addition to confirming the sta ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2012

Analysis of damping rate measurements of toroidal Alfven eigenmodes as a function of n: part II (vol 52, 023014, 2012)

Ambrogio Fasoli, Duccio Testa, Theodoros Panis

IOP Publishing Ltd2012

Investigation of fast ion transport in TORPEX

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Paolo Ricci, Kyle Gustafson

Basic aspects of fast ion transport in ideal interchange-mode unstable plasmas are investigated in the simple toroidal plasma device TORPEX. Fast ions are generated by a miniaturized lithium 6+ ion source with energies up to 1 keV, and are detected using a ...

Int Atomic Energy Agency2012

Convective cells and blob control in a simple magnetized plasma

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Christian Gabriel Theiler

Blob control by creating convective cells using biased electrodes is demonstrated in simple magnetized toroidal plasmas. A two-dimensional array of electrodes is installed on a metal limiter to obtain different biasing schemes. Detailed two-dimensional mea ...

American Physical Society2012

Blob current structures in TORPEX plasmas: experimental measurements and numerical simulations

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Davoud Iraji, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Diane Virginie Marie Lançon, Nicola Vianello

In the simple magnetized torus TORPEX, field-aligned blobs originate from ideal interchange waves and propagate radially outward due to del B and curvature induced drifts. Time-resolved two-dimensional measurements of the field-aligned current density J(pa ...

2011

Numerical modelling of electromagnetic turbulent transport of energetic ions in burning plasmas

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Ambrogio Fasoli, Martin Jucker, Jonathan Graves, Xavier Lapillonne, Mattia Albergante

We investigate the redistribution of the neutral beam driven current in the presence of small scale turbulence in the ITER steady-state scenario. Gyrokinetic simulations show that anomalous transport of beam ions can be larger than collisional estimates. T ...

Institute of Physics2011

Fast Imaging of Blob Motion in TORPEX Plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Davoud Iraji

To complement electrostatic probe measurements of plasma turbulence and study plasma structures with high spatial resolution, a nonperturbative direct imaging system has been developed on TORPEX. This system includes a fast framing Photron-APX-RS camera an ...

2011

Three-Dimensional Imaging of a Radially Propagating Plasma Blob Using Conditional Sampling Techniques

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler

We present 3-D imaging of plasma blobs, generated from ideal interchange turbulence in the TORPEX device, obtained by applying different conditional sampling techniques to electrostatic probe data. Time-evolving spatial profiles of electron density, temper ...

2011

Blob-induced toroidal momentum transport in simple magnetized plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler

The link between toroidal flows and density blobs is experimentally demonstrated in TORPEX simple magnetized plasmas: momentum is transferred from an ideal-interchange mode to density blobs. The phase shift between the toroidal flow and the density perturb ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2011

Recent JET Experiments on Alfvén Eigenmodes with Intermediate Toroidal Mode Numbers: Measurements and Modelling with the TAEFL code

Patrick Blanchard, Ambrogio Fasoli, Duccio Testa, Theodoros Panis

This paper reports the results of recent experiments performed on the JET tokamak on Alfven eigenmodes (AEs) with toroidal mode number (n) in the range n=3—15. The stability properties of these medium-n AEs are investigated experimentally using a new set o ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2011

Practical solutions for reliable triple probe measurements in magnetized plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli, Philippe Marmillod, Ivo Furno, Christian Gabriel Theiler

The triple probe method to obtain local, time-resolved measurements of density, electron temperature and plasma potential is investigated in detail. The difficulties in obtaining reliable measurements with this technique are discussed and overcome. These i ...

2011

Blob motion and control in simple magnetized plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Davoud Iraji, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler

The radial propagation of plasma blobs and possibilities of influencing it are investigated in the TORPEX toroidal experiment [Fasoli et al., Phys. Plasmas 13, 055902 (2006)]. The effect of changing the connection length and the neutral background pressure ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2011

The JET Alfven Eigenmode Local Manager for the real-time detection and tracking of a frequency-degenerate spectrum of MHD instabilities

Patrick Blanchard, Ambrogio Fasoli, Pierre Lavanchy, Duccio Testa, Theodoros Panis

We present the real-time VME system used to detect and track MHD instabilities, and particularly Alfven Eigenmodes, on the JET tokamak [J.Wesson, Tokamaks, 3rd ed., Oxford Science Publication, Oxford, 2003, p.617]. This system runs on a 1 kHz clock cycle, ...

Elsevier2011

Direct two-dimensional measurements of the eld-aligned current associated with plasma blobs

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Nicola Vianello

In simple magnetized toroidal plasmas, field-aligned blobs originate from ideal interchange waves and propagate radially outward under the effect of

\grad B

and curvature induced

E \times B

drifts. We report on the first experimental two-dimensional me ...

2011

Methodology for turbulence code validation: Quantification of simulation-experiment agreement and application to the TORPEX experiment

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Davoud Iraji, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Kyle Gustafson

A methodology for plasma turbulence code validation is discussed, focusing on quantitative assessment of the agreement between experiments and simulations. The present work extends the analysis carried out in a previous paper [P. Ricci et al., Phys. Plasma ...

American Institute of Physics2011

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