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Predictive power-sharing scaling law in double-null L-mode plasmas

Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Louis Nicolas Stenger, Brenno Jason Sanzio Peter De Lucca, Kyungtak Lim

The physical mechanisms regulating the power sharing at the outer targets of L-mode double-null (DN) configurations are investigated using nonlinear, flux-driven, three-dimensional two-fluid simulations. Scans of parameters that regulate the turbulent leve ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

A gyrokinetic model for the plasma periphery of tokamak devices

Paolo Ricci, Paolo De Los Rios, Rogério Manuel Cabete De Jesus Jorge, Baptiste Jimmy Frei

A gyrokinetic model is presented that can properly describe large and small amplitude electromagnetic fluctuations occurring on scale lengths ranging from the electron Larmor radius to the equilibrium perpendicular pressure gradient scale length, and the a ...

Cambridge University Press2020

Overview of the TCV tokamak program: scientific progress and facility upgrades

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Timothy Goodman, Jonathan Graves, Stefano Coda, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Stefano Alberti, Ivo Furno, Duccio Testa, Minh Quang Tran, Paolo Ricci, Patrick Blanchard, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Benoît Labit, Nicola Vianello, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Nespoli, Alessandro Pau, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Laurie Porte, Alexander Karpushov, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Joan Decker, Xavier Llobet, Fabio Riva, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Christian Schlatter, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Wouter Vijvers, Anna Teplukhina, Yanis Andrebe, Roberto Maurizio, Zhouji Huang, Rémy Jacquier, Claudio Marini, Mengdi Kong, Hoang Bao Le, Oulfa Chellaï, Himank Anand, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Francesco Carpanese, Josef Kamleitner, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Joyeeta Sinha

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

A theoretical interpretation of the main scrape-off layer heat-flux width scaling for tokamak inner-wall limited plasmas

Paolo Ricci, Richard Pitts, Jan Horacek, Federico David Halpern

The International Tokamak Physics Activity Topical Group on scrape-off layer and divertor physics has amassed a database comprising hundreds of reciprocating Langmuir probe measurements of the main scrape-off layer heat-flux width lambda(q) in inner-wall l ...

Institute of Physics2016

The physics of the heat flux narrow decay length in the TCV scrape-off layer: experiments and simulations

Richard Pitts, Paolo Ricci, Jan Horacek, Ivo Furno, Federico Nespoli, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico David Halpern, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui

2016

Transition from drift to interchange instabilities in an open magnetic field line configuration

Ambrogio Fasoli, Paolo Ricci, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli

The transition from a regime dominated by drift instabilities to a regime dominated by pure interchange instabilities is investigated and characterized in the simple magnetized toroidal device TORPEX [TORoidal Plasma EXperiment, A. Fasoli et al., Phys. of ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2008

Theory of the Drift-Wave Instability at Arbitrary Collisionality

Paolo Ricci, Rogério Manuel Cabete De Jesus Jorge

A numerically efficient framework that takes into account the effect of the Coulomb collision operator at arbitrary collisionalities is introduced. Such a model is based on the expansion of the distribution function on a Hermite-Laguerre polynomial basis t ...

2018

Turbulent transport regimes in the tokamak boundary and operational limits

Paolo Ricci, Maurizio Giacomin

Two-fluid, three-dimensional, flux-driven, global, electromagnetic turbulence simulations carried out by using the GBS (Global Braginskii Solver) code are used to identify the main parameters controlling turbulent transport in the tokamak boundary and to d ...

2022

Three-dimensional simulations of plasma turbulence in the RFX-mod scrape-off layer and comparison with experimental measurements

Paolo Ricci, Nicola Vianello, Fabio Riva

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2018

Understanding the turbulent mechanisms setting the density decay length in the tokamak scrape-off layer

Paolo Ricci, Carrie Fiona Beadle

Mechanisms setting the density decay in the scrape-off layer (SOL) at the outer midplane of a tokamak plasma are disentangled using two-fluid numerical simulations in a double-null magnetic configuration and analytical estimates. Typical experimental obser ...

Cambridge University Press2020

A comparison between a refined two-point model for the limited tokamak SOL and self-consistent plasma turbulence simulations

Paolo Ricci, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Christoph Wersal

A refined two-point model is derived from the drift-reduced Braginskii equations for the limited tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL) by balancing the parallel and perpendicular transport of plasma and heat and taking into account the plasma–neutral interaction. ...

Institute of Physics2017

Particle transport at arbitrary timescales with Poisson-distributed collisions

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Fabian Manke

We develop a model to investigate the time evolution of the mean location and variance of a random walker subject to Poisson-distributed collisions at constant rate. The collisions are instantaneous velocity changes where a new value of velocity is generat ...

2019

Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Coulomb Collision Operator

Paolo Ricci, Rogério Manuel Cabete De Jesus Jorge, Baptiste Jimmy Frei

A gyrokinetic Coulomb collision operator is derived, which is particularly useful to describe the plasma dynamics at the periphery region of magnetic confinement fusion devices. The derived operator is able to describe collisions occurring in distribution ...

Cambridge University Press2019

Extended drift-kinetic full-f turbulent simulation of a linear plasma device using the gyro-moment approach

Paolo Ricci, Jacob Emil Mencke

Turbulent full-f simulations in a linear plasma device are presented. Extending the work of Frei et al (2024 Phys. Plasmas 31 012301), the simulations are based on a drift-kinetic (DK) model that includes corrections associated with higher-order drifts and ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

A first-principles self-consistent model of plasma turbulence and kinetic neutral dynamics in the tokamak scrape-off layer

Paolo Ricci, Christoph Wersal

A first-principles self-consistent model that couples plasma and neutral physics suitable for the simulation of turbulent plasma behavior in the tokamak SOL is presented. While the plasma is modeled by the drift-reduced two fluid Braginskii equations, a ki ...

International Atomic Energy Agency2015

Mechanism for blob generation in the TORPEX toroidal plasma

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

The mechanism for blob generation is detailed in the toroidal magnetized plasma of the TORPEX device [ Fasoli et al., Phys. Plasmas 13, 055902 (2006) ] using an experimental configuration, which features a plasma region dominated by a coherent wave and a r ...

2008

Antenna excitation of drift wave in a toroidal plasma

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Paolo Ricci, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Stefan Müller

In a magnetized toroidal plasma, an antenna tunable in vertical wave number is used to excite density perturbations. Coherent detection is performed by means of Langmuir probes to directly determine both the wave vector and the plasma response induced by t ...

American Institute of Physics2007

Velocity shear, turbulent saturation, and steep plasma gradients in the scrape-off layer of inner-wall limited tokamaks

Paolo Ricci, Federico David Halpern

The narrow power decay-length (lambda(q)), recently found in the scrape-off layer (SOL) of inner-wall limited (IWL) discharges in tokamaks, is studied using 3D, flux-driven, global two-fluid turbulence simulations. The formation of the steep plasma profile ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Shaping effects on scrape-off layer plasma turbulence: A rigorous validation of three-dimensional simulations against TCV measurements

Paolo Ricci, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Fabio Riva

The effect of plasma shaping on scrape-off layer (SOL) plasma turbulence is investigated through a rigorous validation exercise. Two- and three-dimensional simulations of the SOL plasma dynamics in three TCV limited discharges are carried out with the GBS ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2020

Simulation of plasma turbulence in the periphery of diverted tokamak by using the GBS code

Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva, Christoph Wersal, Baptiste Jimmy Frei, Paola Paruta, Carrie Fiona Beadle

We report on the implementation of diverted magnetic equilibria in GBS and on first simulations in this geometry. GBS is a simulation code used to evolve plasma turbulence in the tokamak periphery by solving the drift-reduced Braginskii's equations. The mo ...

2018