Publications by Christian Gabriel Theiler

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Comparison of high density and nitrogen seeded detachment using SOLPS-ITER simulations of the tokamak a configuration variable

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Mirko Wensing, Hugo De Oliveira, Lorenzo Martinelli

First of a kind SOLPS-ITER simulations on tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) that include nitrogen have been performed to model recent nitrogen seeded detachment experiments. Based on spectroscopic measurements, a nitrogen recycling coefficient R-p(N) ...

2020

Nitrogen-seeded divertor detachment in TCV L-mode plasmas

Basil Duval, Benoît Labit, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Roberto Maurizio, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Hugo De Oliveira, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh

Most of the detachment experiments done to date on the tokamak a configuration variable (TCV), both in standard and alternative divertor geometries, focused on L-mode integrated core density ramps. In view of extending these studies to high-power, high-con ...

2020

Validation of 2D T e and n e measurements made with Helium imaging spectroscopy in the volume of the TCV divertor

Basil Duval, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Artur Perek, Hugo De Oliveira, Filippo Bagnato, Lorenzo Martinelli, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Nicola Offeddu, Dmytry Mykytchuk

Multi-spectral imaging of helium atomic emission (HeMSI) has been used to create 2D poloidal maps of T-e and ne in TCV's divertor. To achieve these measurements, TCV's MANTIS multispectral cameras (Perek et al 2019 Rev. Sci. Instrum. 90 123514) simultaneou ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Imaging of turbulent structures and tomographic reconstruction of TORPEX plasma emissivity

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Davoud Iraji

In the TORPEX [ A. Fasoli et al., Phys. Plasmas 13, 055902 (2006) ], a simple magnetized plasma device, low frequency electrostatic fluctuations associated with interchange waves, are routinely measured by means of extensive sets of Langmuir probes. To com ...

American Institute of Physics2010

The effect of the secondary x-point on the scrape-off layer transport in the TCV snowflake minus divertor

Basil Duval, Benoît Labit, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Roberto Maurizio

The snowflake (SF) magnetic configuration is investigated as a potential power exhaust solution for a fusion reactor, but also to improve our understanding of divertor physics in general. Unlike a conventional single null (SN), it features an additional ne ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

Cross-field and parallel dynamics of SOL filaments in TCV

Basil Duval, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Davide Galassi, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Nicola Offeddu, Diego Sales de Oliveira

Using recently installed scrape-off layer diagnostics on the tokamak a configuration variable, we characterise the poloidal and parallel properties of turbulent filaments. We access both attached and detached divertor conditions across a wide range of core ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

The role of plasma-atom and molecule interactions on power & particle balance during detachment on the MAST Upgrade Super-X divertor

Christian Gabriel Theiler, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh

This paper shows first quantitative analysis of the detachment processes in the MAST Upgrade Super-X divertor (SXD). We identify an unprecedented impact of plasma-molecular interactions involving molecular ions (likely D2+ ), resulting in strong ion sinks ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

The effect of plasma shaping on high density H-mode SOL profiles and fluctuations in TCV

Nicola Vianello, Benoît Labit, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Guang-Yu Sun, Claudia Colandrea, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Luke Simons

The impact of plasma shaping on the properties of high density H-mode scrape-off layer (SOL) profiles and transport at the outer midplane has been investigated on Tokamaka configuration variable. The experimental dataset has been acquired by evolving the u ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Dependence of the L-Mode scrape-off layer power fall-off length on the upper triangularity in TCV

Stefano Coda, Benoît Labit, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Roberto Maurizio

This paper reports on experimental observations on TCV with a scan in upper triangularity

{\delta }_{\mathrm{up}}

, including negative triangularity, focusing on the power fall-off length

{\lambda }_{{\rm{q}}}

in L-Mode. The upper triangularity is scann ...

2018

A Variable Structure Control Scheme Proposal for the Tokamak a Configuration Variable

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

Fusion power is the most significant prospects in the long-term future of energy in the sense that it composes a potentially clean, cheap, and unlimited power source that would substitute the widespread traditional nonrenewable energies, reducing the geogr ...

2019

Practical solutions for reliable triple probe measurements in magnetized plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Philippe Marmillod

The triple probe method to obtain local, time-resolved measurements of density, electron temperature and plasma potential is investigated in detail. The difficulties in obtaining reliable measurements with this technique are discussed and overcome. These i ...

2011

20 years of research on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak

Basil Duval, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Yu Lin

The object of this review is to summarize the achievements of research on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak [Hutchinson et al., Phys. Plasmas 1, 1511 (1994) and Marmar, Fusion Sci. Technol. 51, 261 (2007)] and to place that research in the context of the quest for ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Sliding Surface Based Schemes for the Tokamak a Configuration Variable

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

Fusion power may be seen as the energy of the future in the sense that it composes a potentially clean, cheap and unlimited power source that would reduce the worldwide dependency on non-renewable energies. Nevertheless, while nowadays the fusion reaction ...

IEEE2018

Power exhaust and core-divertor compatibility of the baffled snowflake divertor in TCV

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Claudia Colandrea, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Luke Simons

A baffled snowflake minus low-field side (SF-LFS) is geometrically-optimised in tokamak a` configuration variable, increasing divertor neutral pressure, to evaluate the roles of divertor closure (comparing with an unbaffled SF-LFS) and magnetic geometry (c ...

2023

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

Experimental research on the TCV tokamak

Flavio Mauricio Martins E Silva, Vincent Masson, Abhilash Mathews, Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Henri Weisen, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Stefano Alberti, Duccio Testa, Ivo Furno, Patrick Blanchard, Benoît Labit, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Alexander Karpushov, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Simon Van Mulders, Alessandro Pau, Yanis Andrebe, Cristian Galperti, Joan Decker, Jérémy Genoud, 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, Artur Perek, Claudia Colandrea, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Francesco Carpanese, Nicola Offeddu, Luke Simons, Aylwin Iantchenko, Maurizio Giacomin, Lorenzo Martinelli, Oleg Krutkin, Antoine Baillod, Federico Pesamosca, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Jesús Poley Sanjuán, Carl Mathias Paul Hoppe, Hugo De Oliveira, Benjamin Alexandre Vincent, Umesh Kumar, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Arsène Stéphane Tema Biwole, Massimo Carpita, Jean Arthur Cazabonne, Yuxuan Wang, Davide Mancini, Cassandre Ekta Contré, Stefano Marchioni, Samuele Mazzi, Reinart Andreas J. Coosemans, Gino Marceca, Renat Karimov, Elena Tonello, Michele Marin, Martim Zurita, Alessandro Balestri, Humberto Torreblanca Quiroz, Francesco Pastore, Daniele Hamm, Mackenzie Peter-Fulford Van Rossem, Emanuel Paul Huett, Nam Axel David Vu, Marta Mariarmanda Pedrini, Cristina Venturini, Hari Raj, Antonia Frank, Silvia Masillo

Tokamak à configuration variable (TCV), recently celebrating 30 years of near-continual operation, continues in its missions to advance outstanding key physics and operational scenario issues for ITER and the design of future power plants such as DEMO. The ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

X-point radiator and power exhaust control in configurations with multiple X-points in TCV

Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Guang-Yu Sun, Filippo Bagnato, Artur Perek, Claudia Colandrea, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Luke Simons, Lorenzo Martinelli, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Richard Alexander David Ducker, Ming Yin Kenneth Lee

Novel power exhaust solutions are being developed to address the challenge of integrating a high performance fusion core plasma with a well-protected divertor, if the single null configuration does not scale to a reactor device. This work aims to elucidate ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2024

Divertor Shaping with Neutral Baffling as a Solution to the Tokamak Power Exhaust Challenge

Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Olivier Claude Martin Février

Exhausting power from the hot fusion core to the plasma-facing components is one fusion energy's biggest challenges. The MAST Upgrade tokamak uniquely integrates strong containment of neutrals within the exhaust area (divertor) with extreme divertor shapin ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

Pedestal structure and energy confinement studies on TCV

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Patrick Blanchard, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui

High external gas injection rates are foreseen for future devices to reduce divertor heat loads and this can influence pedestal stability. Fusion yield has been estimated to vary as strongly as T-e,ped(2) so an understanding of the underlying pedestal phys ...

2019

Estimating cross-field particle transport at the outer midplane of TCV by tracking filaments with machine learning

Christian Gabriel Theiler, Davide Galassi, Claudia Colandrea, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Nicola Offeddu

Cross-field transport of particles in the boundary region of magnetically confined fusion plasmas is dominated by turbulence. Blobs, intermittent turbulent structures with large amplitude and a filamentary shape appearing in the scrape-off layer (SOL), are ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023