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Alcator C-Mod: research in support of ITER and steps beyond

Peng Xu, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Yu Lin

This paper presents an overview of recent highlights from research on Alcator C-Mod. Significant progress has been made across all research areas over the last two years, with particular emphasis on divertor physics and power handling, plasmamaterial inter ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

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

Pre-sheath density drop induced by ion-neutral friction along plasma blobs and implications for blob velocities

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Christian Gabriel Theiler

The pre-sheath density drop along the magnetic field in field-aligned, radially propagating plasma blobs is investigated in the TORPEX toroidal experiment [Fasoli et al., Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion 52, 124020 (2010)]. Using Langmuir probes precisely al ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Basic investigations of electrostatic turbulence and its interaction with plasma and suprathermal ions in a simple magnetized toroidal plasma

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Sébastien Jolliet, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Fabio Riva, Kyle Gustafson, Fabio Avino, Nicola Vianello

Progress in basic understanding of turbulence and its influence on the transport both of the plasma bulk and of suprathermal components is achieved in the TORPEX simple magnetized torus. This configuration combines a microwave plasma production scheme with ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

Overview of the RFX-mod fusion science programme

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Fabio Avino, Elena Gaio, Nicola Vianello, Alberto Ferro

This paper reports the highlights of the RFX-mod fusion science programme since the last 2010 IAEA Fusion Energy Conference. The RFX-mod fusion science programme focused on two main goals: exploring the fusion potential of the reversed field pinch (RFP) ma ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

An assessment of ion temperature measurements in the boundary of the Alcator C-Mod tokamak and implications for ion fluid heat flux limiters

Christian Gabriel Theiler

The ion temperature is not frequently measured in the boundary of magnetic fusion devices. Comparisons among different ion temperature techniques and simulations are even rarer. Here we present a comparison of ion temperature measurements in the boundary o ...

2013

Effects of LHRF on toroidal rotation in Alcator C-Mod plasmas

Christian Gabriel Theiler

Application of lower hybrid range of frequencies (LHRF) waves can induce both co- and counter-current directed changes in toroidal rotation in Alcator C-Mod plasmas, depending on the target plasma current, electron density, confinement regime and magnetic ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

Overview of experimental results and code validation activities at Alcator C-Mod

Christian Gabriel Theiler

Recent research on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak has focused on a range of scientific issues with particular emphasis on ITER needs and on detailed comparisons between experimental measurements and predictive models. Research on ICRF (ion cyclotron range of fr ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

Convective cells and blob control in a simple magnetized plasma

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Christian Gabriel Theiler

Blob control by creating convective cells using biased electrodes is demonstrated in simple magnetized toroidal plasmas. A two-dimensional array of electrodes is installed on a metal limiter to obtain different biasing schemes. Detailed two-dimensional mea ...

American Physical Society2012

Simulation of plasma turbulence in scrape-off layer conditions: the GBS code, simulation results and code validation

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Sébastien Jolliet, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Annamaria Mosetto, Federico David Halpern

Based on the drift-reduced Braginskii equations, the Global Braginskii Solver, GBS, is able to model the scrape-off layer (SOL) plasma turbulence in terms of the interplay between the plasma outflow from the tokamak core, the turbulent transport, and the l ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2012

Basic Investigation of Turbulent Structures and Blobs of Relevance for Magnetic Fusion Plasmas

Christian Gabriel Theiler

Similarly to neutral fluids, plasmas often exhibit turbulent behavior. Turbulence in plasmas is usually more complex than in neutral fluids due to long range interactions via electric and magnetic fields, and kinetic effects. It gives rise to many interest ...

EPFL2011

Blob current structures in TORPEX plasmas: experimental measurements and numerical simulations

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Davoud Iraji, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Diane Virginie Marie Lançon, Nicola Vianello

In the simple magnetized torus TORPEX, field-aligned blobs originate from ideal interchange waves and propagate radially outward due to del B and curvature induced drifts. Time-resolved two-dimensional measurements of the field-aligned current density J(pa ...

2011

Three-Dimensional Imaging of a Radially Propagating Plasma Blob Using Conditional Sampling Techniques

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler

We present 3-D imaging of plasma blobs, generated from ideal interchange turbulence in the TORPEX device, obtained by applying different conditional sampling techniques to electrostatic probe data. Time-evolving spatial profiles of electron density, temper ...

2011

Blob-induced toroidal momentum transport in simple magnetized plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler

The link between toroidal flows and density blobs is experimentally demonstrated in TORPEX simple magnetized plasmas: momentum is transferred from an ideal-interchange mode to density blobs. The phase shift between the toroidal flow and the density perturb ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2011

Practical solutions for reliable triple probe measurements in magnetized plasmas

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

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

Blob motion and control in simple magnetized plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Davoud Iraji, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler

The radial propagation of plasma blobs and possibilities of influencing it are investigated in the TORPEX toroidal experiment [Fasoli et al., Phys. Plasmas 13, 055902 (2006)]. The effect of changing the connection length and the neutral background pressure ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2011

Direct two-dimensional measurements of the eld-aligned current associated with plasma blobs

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Nicola Vianello

In simple magnetized toroidal plasmas, field-aligned blobs originate from ideal interchange waves and propagate radially outward under the effect of

\grad B

and curvature induced

E \times B

drifts. We report on the first experimental two-dimensional me ...

2011

Methodology for turbulence code validation: Quantification of simulation-experiment agreement and application to the TORPEX experiment

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Davoud Iraji, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Kyle Gustafson

A methodology for plasma turbulence code validation is discussed, focusing on quantitative assessment of the agreement between experiments and simulations. The present work extends the analysis carried out in a previous paper [P. Ricci et al., Phys. Plasma ...

American Institute of Physics2011

Existence of subsonic plasma sheaths

Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler

The location of the plasma sheath edge, where quasineutrality is broken, is rigorously derived by using a kinetic description of the plasma. It is shown that sheaths can exist with arbitrarily small ion velocity at the sheath edge, thus violating the Bohm ...

American Physical Society2011

Electrostatic instabilities, turbulence and fast ion interactions in the TORPEX device

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Stefan Müller, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Lucia Isabel Federspiel, Benoît Labit, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Alice Burckel, Gennady Plyushchev, Davoud Iraji, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Kyle Gustafson

Electrostatic turbulence, related structures and their effect on particle, heat and toroidal momentum transport are investigated in TORPEX simple magnetized plasmas using high-resolution diagnostics, control parameters, linear fluid models and nonlinear nu ...

Institute of Physics2010

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