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H-mode scrape-off layer power width in the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Benoît Labit, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Roberto Maurizio

Obtaining acceptable conditions at the divertor targets of a next-step fusion experiment based on the tokamak concept is expected to be particularly challenging because of the small predicted value of the plasma power exhaust channel width. An increased co ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Basic turbulence studies on TORPEX and challenges in the theory-experiment comparison

Ambrogio Fasoli, Benoît Labit, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Gennady Plyushchev

TORPEX [A. Fasoli, B. Labit, M. McGrath, S. H. Muller, M. Podesta, and F. M. Poli, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 48, 119 (2003)] is dedicated to the study of electrostatic instabilities, turbulence, and transport. Plasmas are produced by waves in the electron cyclo ...

2005

Experimental characterization of drift-interchange instabilities in a simple toroidal plasma

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Stephan Brunner, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Gennady Plyushchev

Low frequency electrostatic instabilities are investigated on TORPEX [Fasoli, Labit, McGrath, Muller, Podesta, and Poli, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 48, 119 (2003)], a toroidal device for basic plasma physics experiments with a toroidal magnetic field 100 mT and ...

2006

Improved heat and particle flux mitigation in high core confinement, baffled, alternative divertor configurations in the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Patrick Blanchard, Benoît Labit, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Artur Perek, Matteo Vallar, Hugo De Oliveira, Filippo Bagnato, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Harshita Raj

Nitrogen seeded detachment has been achieved in the tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) in alternative divertor configurations (ADCs), namely X-divertor and X-point target, with and without baffles in H-mode plasmas with high core confinement. Both ADCs ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Advanced divertor configurations with large flux expansion

Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Wouter Vijvers

Experimental studies of the novel snowflake divertor concept (D. Ryutov, Phys. Plasmas 14 (2007) 064502) performed in the NSTX and TCV tokamaks are reviewed in this paper. The snowflake divertor enables power sharing between divertor strike points, as well ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

A locked mode indicator for disruption prediction on JET and ASDEX upgrade

Jérémie Gérard Laurent, Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Jonathan Graves, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Marco Wischmeier, Jean-Marc Moret, Mikhail Maslov, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, David Pfefferlé, Davide Galassi, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Roland Behn, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Liang Yao, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Cristian Sommariva, Benoît Labit, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, Holger Reimerdes, Laurie Porte, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Alberto Bottino, Marc Gruber, Alexander Karpushov, Emiliano Fable, Ben McMillan, Andrea Scarabosio, Federico Nespoli, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Wouter Vijvers, Matteo Fontana, Yanis Andrebe, Cristian Galperti, Haomin Sun, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Doohyun Kim, Nicola Vianello, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Anna Teplukhina, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Zhouji Huang, Jose Vicente Sanchez Mut, Attila Bencze, Dávid Wágner, Claudio Marini, Himank Anand, Dahye Choi, Hoang Bao Le, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Anton Malygin, Mélanie Preynas, Mateusz Gospodarczyk

The aim of this paper is to present a signal processing algorithm that, applied to the raw Locked Mode signal, allows us to obtain a disruption indicator in principle exploitable on different tokamaks. A common definition of such an indicator for different ...

2019

Plasma turbulence, suprathermal ion dynamics and code validation on the basic plasma physics device TORPEX

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Fabio Avino, Francesca Maria Poli, Gennady Plyushchev, Kyle Gustafson, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Davoud Iraji

The TORPEX basic plasma physics device at the Center for Plasma Physics Research (CRPP) in Lausanne, Switzerland is described. In TORPEX, simple magnetized toroidal configurations, a paradigm for the tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL), as well as more complex ...

Cambridge University Press2015

Conduction-based model of the Scrape-Off Layer power sharing between inner and outer divertor in diverted low-density tokamak plasmas

Basil Duval, Marco Wischmeier, Benoît Labit, Nicola Vianello, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Wouter Vijvers, Roberto Maurizio, Hugo De Oliveira, Mirko Wensing

A simple analytic model for the repartition of the Scrape-Off Layer (SOL) exhaust power between the inner and outer divertors in a diverted low-density tokamak plasma is introduced. Electron heat conduction is assumed to dominate the heat transport, from t ...

Elsevier2019

Helical core tokamak MHD equilibrium states

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Jonathan Graves, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Antoine Pochelon, Jonathan Rossel, Mattia Albergante

Bifurcated magnetohydrodynamic tokamak equilibrium states with axisymmetric or helical core structure are computed. When a peaked pressure profile is chosen, the helical core structures appear like the {em snakes} that are observed in the JET tokamak. They ...

Caroline Wilkinson2011

Bifurcated Helical Core Equilibrium States in Tokamaks

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Jonathan Graves, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Antoine Pochelon, Trach-Minh Tran, David Pfefferlé, Federico David Halpern, Daniele Brunetti

Tokamaks with weak to moderate reversed central shear in which the minimum inverse rotational transform (safety factor) qmin is in the neighbourhood of unity can trigger bifurcated magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium states, one of which is similar to a satura ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

Experimental Observation of the Blob-Generation Mechanism from InterchangeWaves in a Plasma

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli

The mechanism for blob generation in a toroidal magnetized plasma is investigated using time-resolved measurements of two-dimensional structures of electron density, temperature, and plasma potential. The blobs are observed to form from a radially elongate ...

2008

Experimental characterization and modelling of the particle source in an Electron-Cyclotron wave driven toroidal plasma

Ambrogio Fasoli, Benoît Labit, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli

The plasma particle source resulting from ionization by microwaves in the electron-cyclotron range of frequencies is investigated in the simple magnetized torus TORPEX ( Fasoli A et al 2006 Phys. Plasmas 13 055902), together with its dependence upon experi ...

2006

The quasi-continuous exhaust regime in JET

Olivier Sauter, Benoît Labit

The quasi-continuous exhaust (QCE) regime is a regime that is naturally type-I ELM-free. It combines the high density at the plasma edge needed for power exhaust with the high normalised energy confinement typical for H-mode operation. In the QCE regime la ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Enhanced confinement in diverted negative-triangularity L-mode plasmas in TCV

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alessandro Pau, Benoît Labit, Laurie Porte, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Alessandro Marinoni, Matteo Vallar, Filippo Bagnato

The favorable confinement properties of negative-triangularity (NT) tokamak configurations were discovered in the TCV tokamak in the late 1990s and were documented over the two following decades, through investigations of predominantly electron-heated plas ...

2022

Isotope effects in linear and saturated ohmic confinement of TCV tokamak and gyrokinetic validation

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Benoît Labit, Alexander Karpushov, Artur Perek, Lorenzo Martinelli, Oleg Krutkin, Dmytry Mykytchuk

We investigated isotope effects during the tokamak à configuration variable (TCV) ohmic discharge of a diverted positive triangular shape configuration of deuterium (D) and hydrogen (H) plasmas. The transition from the linear ohmic confinement (LOC) regime ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

"Snowflake" H Mode in a Tokamak Plasma

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Jean-Marc Moret, Benoît Labit, János Márki, Andreas Pitzschke, Francesco Piras

An edge-localized mode (ELM) H-mode regime, supported by electron cyclotron heating, has been successfully established in a snowflake (second-order null) divertor configuration for the first time in the TCV tokamak. This regime exhibits 2 to 3 times lowe ...

The American Physical Society2010

First EMC3-Eirene simulations of the TCV snowflake divertor

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Marco Wischmeier, Wouter Vijvers

One of the approaches to solve the heat load problem in a divertor tokamak is the so called 'snowflake' (SF) configuration, a magnetic equilibrium with two nearby x-points and two additional divertor legs. Here we report on the first EMC3-Eirene simulation ...

Institute of Physics2014

Overview of the TCV tokamak experimental programme

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Stefano Alberti, Duccio Testa, Jean-Marc Moret, Ivo Furno, Patrick Blanchard, Benoît Labit, Jan Horacek, Paolo Ricci, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jonathan Graves, Stephan Brunner, Holger Reimerdes, Laurie Porte, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Alexander Karpushov, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Xavier Llobet, Matteo Fontana, Simon Van Mulders, Alessandro Pau, Yanis Andrebe, Cristian Galperti, Joan Decker, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Mengdi Kong, Matteo Vallar, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Davide Galassi, Guang-Yu Sun, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Filippo Bagnato, Roberto Maurizio, Oulfa Chellaï, Mirko Wensing, Claudia Colandrea, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Francesco Carpanese, Nicola Offeddu, Aylwin Iantchenko, Maurizio Giacomin, Lorenzo Martinelli, Oleg Krutkin, Dahye Choi, Federico Pesamosca, Hugo Antoine Georges Arnichand, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Benjamin Alexandre Vincent, Umesh Kumar, Arsène Stéphane Tema Biwole, Lorenzo Stipani, Anna Ngoc Minh Trang Vu, Jean Arthur Cazabonne, Stefano Marchioni, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Renat Karimov, Ajay Chandrarajan Jayalekshmi

The tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) continues to leverage its unique shaping capabilities, flexible heating systems and modern control system to address critical issues in preparation for ITER and a fusion power plant. For the 2019-20 campaign its c ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

ELM-induced cold pulse propagation in ASDEX Upgrade

Olivier Sauter, Richard Pitts, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Marco Wischmeier, Jean-Marc Moret, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Roland Behn, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Cristian Sommariva, Benoît Labit, Holger Reimerdes, Laurie Porte, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Marc Gruber, Alexander Karpushov, Emiliano Fable, Ben McMillan, Federico Nespoli, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Matteo Fontana, Yanis Andrebe, Cristian Galperti, Joan Decker, Dávid Wágner, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Doohyun Kim, Nicola Vianello, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Anna Teplukhina, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Zhouji Huang, Attila Bencze, Claudio Marini, Wouter Vijvers, Himank Anand, Dahye Choi, Hoang Bao Le, Anton Malygin, Mélanie Preynas

In ASDEX Upgrade, the propagation of cold pulses induced by type-I edge localized modes (ELMs) is studied using electron cyclotron emission measurements, in a dataset of plasmas with moderate triangularity. It is found that the edge safety factor or the pl ...

2019

Bifurcated Helical Core Equilibrium States in Tokamaks

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Jonathan Graves, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Antoine Pochelon, David Pfefferlé, Federico David Halpern, Daniele Brunetti, Jonathan Rossel, Mattia Albergante

Tokamaks with weak to moderate reversed central shear in which the minimum rotational transform

q_{min}

is in the neighbourhood of unity can trigger bifurcated MagnetoHydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium states, one of which is similar to a saturated ideal ...

2012