The effect of plasma elongation kappa on the sawtooth behaviour is studied in ohmically heated TCV plasmas up to values of kappa = 2.8. Above a certain value of kappa, which varies from 2.2 to 2.6 and depends on the current profile, the sawtooth oscillatio ...
The role of the current profile and ion and electron temperature ratio in Tokamak A Configuration Variable (TCV) electron internal transport barrier (eITB) noninductive discharges is inspected by means of the linear gyrokinetic global code LORB5 (Bottino e ...
Experiments using ion cyclotron current drive (ICCD) to control sawteeth are presented. In particular, discharges demonstrating shortening of fast ion induced long sawteeth reported in (Eriksson et al 2004 Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 235004) by ICCD have been anal ...
A new code is presented here, named Gyrokinetic SEmi-LAgragian (GYSELA) code, which solves 4D drift-kinetic equations for ion temperature gradient driven turbulence in a cylinder (r, theta, z). The code validation is performed with the slab ITG mode that o ...
