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Linear multispecies gyrokinetic flux tube benchmarks in shaped tokamak plasmas

Stephan Brunner, Olivier Sauter, Laurent Villard, Yann Camenen, Emiliano Fable, Alice Burckel, Gabriele Merlo

Verification is the fundamental step that any turbulence simulation code has to be submitted in order to assess the proper implementation of the underlying equations. We have carried out a cross comparison of three flux tube gyrokinetic codes, GENE [F. Jen ...

2016

Modeling of neoclassical tearing mode stabilization by electron cyclotron heating and current drive in tokamak plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Hartmut Zohm, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Emanuele Poli, Kyungjin Kim

An integrated numerical system is established to model time-dependent behavior of the neoclassical tearing mode (NTM) in a tokamak which solves the modified Rutherford equation (MRE) by coupling with plasma transport, equilibrium, heating and current drive ...

2016

Simple predictive electron transport models applied to sawtoothing plasmas

Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Doohyun Kim, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle

In this work, we introduce two simple transport models to evaluate the time evolution of electron temperature and density profiles during sawtooth cycles (i.e. over a sawtooth period time-scale). Since the aim of these simulations is to estimate reliable p ...

Plasma Physics and Controled Fusion2016

Saturated ideak kink/peeling formations described as three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic tokamak equilibrium states

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Basil Duval, Olivier Sauter, Trach-Minh Tran, Holger Reimerdes, Laurie Porte, Jonathan Graves, David Pfefferlé, Daniele Brunetti, Andreas Kleiner, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Madhusudan Raghunathan, Hamish William Patten

Free boundary magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium states with spontaneous three dimensional deformations of the plasma-vacuum interface are computed for the first time. The structures obtained have the appearance of saturated ideal external kink/peeling modes. ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2016

Three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium of quiescent H-modes in tokamak systems

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Basil Duval, Olivier Sauter, Trach-Minh Tran, Jonathan Graves, Andreas Kleiner, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Madhusudan Raghunathan, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler

Three dimensional free boundary magnetohydrodynamic equilibria that recover saturated ideal kink/peeling structures are obtained numerically. Simulations that model the JET tokamak at fixed = 1.7% with a large edge bootstrap current that flattens t ...

IOP Publishing2016

Role of infernal modes dynamics and plasma rotation on the onset of NTMs in ECH-ECCD TCV plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Jonathan Graves, Daniele Brunetti

2016

An active feedback plasma profile control approach applied to TCV plasmas and perspectives toward ITER

Olivier Sauter, Sun Hee Kim, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Doohyun Kim

2016

Axisymmetric Tokamak Equilibria computed with a Predefined Safety Factor Profile as CHEASE input

Olivier Sauter, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle

The CHEASE code, which has been developed at the Swiss Plasma Center, generates an accurate reconstruction of toroidal magnetohydrodynamics equilibria by numerically solving the Grad-Shafranov equation. Having demonstrated its ability to achieve good conve ...

2016

Simulation of bootstrap current in 2D and 3D ideal magnetic fields in tokamaks

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Olivier Sauter, Jonathan Graves, Michael Pedro, Madhusudan Raghunathan

We aim to simulate the bootstrap current for a MAST-like spherical tokamak using two approaches for magnetic equilibria including externally caused 3D effects such as resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs), the effect of toroidal ripple, and intrinsic 3D e ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Recent ASDEX Upgrade research in support of ITER and DEMO

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alberto Bottino, Marco Wischmeier, Andrea Scarabosio, Hartmut Zohm, Laurie Porte, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Emiliano Fable, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Dávid Wágner, Doohyun Kim, Heinz Mueller, Emanuele Poli, Nicola Vianello, Giovanni Tardini, Donghyun Kim, Alessandro Pau, Otto Asunta, Haomin Sun, Xiao Wang, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

Recent experiments on the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak aim at improving the physics base for ITER and DEMO to aid the machine design and prepare efficient operation. Type I edge localized mode (ELM) mitigation using resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs) has been ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Novel aspects of plasma control in ITER

Jonathan Bryan Lister, Olivier Sauter, Sun Hee Kim, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici

ITER plasma control design solutions and performance requirements are strongly driven by its nuclear mission, aggressive commissioning constraints, and limited number of operational discharges. In addition, high plasma energy content, heat fluxes, neutron ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Overview of the FTU results

Basil Duval, Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Jonathan Rossel, Alexander Karpushov, Duccio Testa, Lucia Isabel Federspiel, Dávid Wágner, Gabriele Grosso, Doohyun Kim, Cristian Galperti, Donghyun Kim

Since the 2012 IAEA-FEC Conference, FTU operations have been largely devoted to runaway electrons generation and control, to the exploitation of the 140 GHz electron cyclotron (EC) system and to liquid metal limiter elements. Experiments on runaway electro ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Investigating profile stiffness and critical gradients in shaped TCV discharges using local gyrokinetic simulations of turbulent transport

Stephan Brunner, Olivier Sauter, Laurent Villard, Yann Camenen, Alessandro Marinoni, Gabriele Merlo

The experimental observation made on the TCV tokamak of a significant confinement improvement in plasmas with negative triangularity (delta < 0) compared to those with standard positive triangularity has been interpreted in terms of different degrees of pr ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

The negative triangularity tokamak: stability limits and prospects as a fusion energy system

Ambrogio Fasoli, Olivier Sauter, Laurent Villard, Andrei Martynov

The paper discusses edge stability, beta limits and power handling issues for negative triangularity tokamaks. The edge magnetohydrodynamic stability is the most crucial item for power handling. For the case of negative triangularity the edge stability pic ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2015

Selected highlights of ECH/ECCD physics studies in the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Doohyun Kim, Joan Decker, Donghyun Kim

The Tokamak a Configuration Variable, TCV, has used Electron Cyclotron Heating and Current Drive as its only auxiliary heating system for nearly two decades. In addition to basic plasma heating and current profiling, ECH and ECCD under either feedforward o ...

EDP Sciences2015

A 3D MHD equilibrium description of nonlinearly saturated ideal external kink/peeling structures in tokamaks

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Basil Duval, Olivier Sauter, Trach-Minh Tran, Holger Reimerdes, Laurie Porte, Jonathan Graves

Novel free boundary magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium states with spontaneous three-dimensional (3-D) deformations of the plasmaâ vacuum interface are computed. The structures obtained look like saturated ideal external kink/peeling modes. Large edge pre ...

Cambridge University Press2015

Assessment of the ITER EC Upper Launcher Performance

Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Emanuele Poli

The 24 MW ITER Electron Cyclotron (EC) Heating and Current Drive (H&CD) system, operating at 170 GHz, consists of one Equatorial (EL) and four Upper Launchers (UL). The main task of the UL will be the control of Magneto-Hydrodynamic (MHD) activity such as ...

E D P Sciences2015

Upgrade of the TCV tokamak, first phase: Neutral beam heating system

Stefano Alberti, René Chavan, Basil Duval, Damien Fasel, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Olivier Sauter, Alexander Karpushov, Matthieu Toussaint

Experiments on TCV are designed to complement the work at large integrated tokamak facilities (such as JET) to provide a stepwise approach to extrapolation to ITER and DEMO in areas where medium-size tokamaks can often exploit their experimental capabiliti ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

On recent results in the modelling of neoclassical-tearing-mode stabilization via electron cyclotron current drive and their impact on the design of the upper EC launcher for ITER

Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Hartmut Zohm, Emanuele Poli

Electron cyclotron wave beams injected from a launcher placed in the upper part of the vessel will be used in ITER to control MHD instabilities, in particular neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs). Simplified NTM stabilization criteria have been used in the pa ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2015

Design and first applications of the ITER integrated modelling & analysis suite

Basil Duval, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Olivier Sauter, Sun Hee Kim

The ITER Integrated Modelling & Analysis Suite (IMAS) will support both plasma operation and research activities on the ITER tokamak experiment. The IMAS will be accessible to all ITER members as a key tool for the scientific exploitation of ITER. The back ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2015

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