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Sawtooth control in fusion plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Jonathan Graves, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Andrei Martynov

Clear observations of early triggering of neo-classical tearing modes by sawteeth with long quiescent periods have motivated recent efforts to control, and in particular destabilize, sawteeth. One successful approach explored in TCV utilizes electron cyclo ...

2005

Role of the pedestal position on the pedestal performance in AUG, JET-ILW and TCV and implications for ITER

Stefano Coda, Patrick Blanchard, Benoît Labit, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Pamela Solange Valdés Undurraga, Lenke Horváth

The role of the pedestal position on the pedestal performance has been investigated in AUG, JET-ILW and TCV. When the pedestal is peeling-ballooning (PB) limited, the three machines show a similar behaviour. The outward shift of the pedestal density relati ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Current Research into Applications of Tomography for Fusion Diagnostics

Olivier Sauter, Richard Pitts, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Yves Martin, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Mikhail Maslov, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Davide Galassi, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Liang Yao, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Cristian Sommariva, Jonathan Graves, Federico Nespoli, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, David Pfefferlé, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin

Retrieving spatial distribution of plasma emissivity from line integrated measurements on tokamaks presents a challenging task due to ill-posedness of the tomography problem and limited number of the lines of sight. Modern methods of plasma tomography ther ...

Springer2019

Light impurity transport in JET ILW L-mode plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Jonathan Graves, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Yves Martin, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Nicola Vianello, Robin Humphry-Baker, Sun Hee Kim, Federico Nespoli, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, David Pfefferlé, Davide Galassi, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Cristian Sommariva, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Mikhail Maslov, Marco Wischmeier, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Liang Yao, Daniel Scott Alessi, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Partha Dutta, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Julio Rodriguez, Vlad Trifa, Li Shuai, Rebecca Hill

A series of experimental observations of light impurity profiles was carried out in JET (Joint European Torus) ITER-like wall (ILW) L-mode plasmas in order to investigate their transport mechanisms. These discharges feature the presence of He-3, Be, C, N, ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

Overview of recent and current research on the TCV tokamak

Stefano Coda

Through a diverse research programme, the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) addresses physics issues and develops tools for ITER and for the longer term goals of nuclear fusion, relying especially on its extreme plasma shaping and electron cyclotron r ...

International Atomic Energy Agency2013

Progress from ASDEX Upgrade experiments in preparing the physics basis of ITER operation and DEMO scenario development

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Benoît Labit, Laurie Porte, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Alessandro Pau, Cristian Sommariva

An overview of recent results obtained at the tokamak ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) is given. A work flow for predictive profile modelling of AUG discharges was established which is able to reproduce experimental H-mode plasma profiles based on engineering parameter ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Observations and modelling of ion cyclotron emission observed in JET plasmas using a sub-harmonic arc detection system during ion cyclotron resonance heating

Measurements are reported of electromagnetic emission close to the cyclotron frequency of energetic ions in JET plasmas heated by waves in the ion cylotron range of frequencies (ICRF). Hydrogen was the majority ion species in all of these plasmas. The meas ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

Detachment in conventional and advanced double-null plasmas in TCV

Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Benoît Labit, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler

Divertor detachment is investigated on the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) for conventional and alternative double-null (DN) magnetic geometries in L-mode, Ohmic density ramps and then compared to precisely matched single-null (SN) geometries. The p ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Nonlocal effects in negative triangularity TCV plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Zhouji Huang, Gabriele Merlo, Claudio Marini

Global gradient driven gyrokinetic simulations performed with the Gyrokinetic Electromagnetic Numerical Experiment (GENE) code are used to investigate Tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) plasmas with negative triangularity. Considering limited L-mode pl ...

2021

On the Use of Transfer Entropy to Investigate the Time Horizon of Causal Influences between Signals

Understanding the details of the correlation between time series is an essential step on the route to assessing the causal relation between systems. Traditional statistical indicators, such as the Pearson correlation coefficient and the mutual information, ...

2018

Recent electron cyclotron emission results on TCV

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Timothy Goodman, Patrick Blanchard, Laurie Porte, Emiliano Fable, Philippe Marmillod, Xavier Llobet, Christian Schlatter, Igor Klimanov, Pierre-François Isoz

Electron cyclotron emission (ECE) diagnostics on Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) allow study of the electron temperature evolution in time with good spatial and temporal resolution at the high field side and low field side at various lines of sight. ...

2007

Sub-millisecond electron density profile measurement at the JET tokamak with the fast lithium beam emission spectroscopy system

Diagnostic alkali atom (e.g., lithium) beams are routinely used to diagnose magnetically confined plasmas, namely, to measure the plasma electron density profile in the edge and the scrape off layer region. A light splitting optics system was installed int ...

2018

Dynamic modelling of local fuel inventory and desorption in the whole tokamak vacuum vessel for auto-consistent plasma-wall interaction simulations

An extension of the SolEdge2D-EIRENE code package, named D-WEE, has been developed to add the dynamics of thermal desorption of hydrogen isotopes from the surface of plasma facing materials. To achieve this purpose, D-WEE models hydrogen isotopes implantat ...

Elsevier2019

Poloidal asymmetry in the narrow heat flux feature in the TCV scrape-off layer

Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Jan Horacek, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Federico Nespoli, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Federico David Halpern, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui

Heat flux profiles inferred from a reciprocating probe at the outer midplane of the TCV tokamak during inner wall limited discharges feature radial fall-off lengths that shorten near the last closed flux surface (LCFS) consistent with the so-called narrow ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2017

Cascades of Parametric Instabilities in the Tokamak Plasma Edge during Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating

Stefano Coda, Umesh Kumar

We report observations of nonlinear two-plasmon decay instabilities (TPDIs) of a high -power microwave beam, a process similar to half -harmonic generation in optics, during electron cyclotron resonance heating in a tokamak. TPDIs are found to occur regula ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Utilizing parametric instabilities to diagnose edge density fluctuations in TCV

Stefano Coda, Umesh Kumar

Two-plasmon decay instabilities (TPDIs) are a class of parametric instabilities where a gyrotron beam, polarized in X-mode, decays nonlinearly into two upper hybrid waves at approximately half frequency. Here, we present the design of a simple radiometer t ...

2024

Erosion, screening, and migration of tungsten in the JET divertor

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Richard Pitts, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Henri Weisen, Yves Martin, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Mikhail Maslov, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Davide Galassi, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Liang Yao, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Cristian Sommariva, Jonathan Graves, Federico Nespoli, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, David Pfefferlé, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin

The erosion of tungsten (W), induced by the bombardment of plasma and impurity particles, determines the lifetime of plasma-facing components as well as impacting on plasma performance by the influx of W into the confined region. The screening of W by the ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Divertor currents optimization procedure for JET-ILW high flux expansion experiments

This paper deals with a divertor coil currents optimized procedure to design High Flux Expansion (HFE) configurations in the JET tokamak aimed to study the effects of flux expansion variation on the radiation fraction and radiated power re-distribution. A ...

2018

Magnetic control of tokamak plasmas through deep reinforcement learning

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Ambrogio Fasoli, Jean-Marc Moret, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Cristian Sommariva, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Cristian Galperti, Jonas Buchli, Francesco Carpanese, Federico Pesamosca

Nuclear fusion using magnetic confinement, in particular in the tokamak configuration, is a promising path towards sustainable energy. A core challenge is to shape and maintain a high-temperature plasma within the tokamak vessel. This requires high-dimensi ...

2022

Instrumentation for the upgrade to the JET core charge-exchange spectrometers

Charge-exchange spectroscopy on JET has become particularly challenging with the introduction of the ITER-like wall. The line intensities are weaker and contaminated by many nuisance lines. We have therefore upgraded the instrumentation to improve throughp ...

2018