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Multi-code analysis of scrape-off layer filament dynamics in MAST

Four numerical codes are employed to investigate the dynamics of scrape-off layer filaments in tokamak relevant conditions. Experimental measurements were taken in the MAST device using visual camera imaging, which allows the evaluation of the perpendicula ...

Institute of Physics2016

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

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

Plasma shaping effects on tokamak scrape-off layer turbulence

Paolo Ricci, Sébastien Jolliet, Emmanuel Lanti, Fabio Riva

The impact of plasma shaping on tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL) turbulence is investigated. The drift-reduced Braginskii equations are written for arbitrary magnetic geometries, and an analytical equilibrium model is used to introduce the dependence of turb ...

Institute of Physics2017

Millimeter-wave beam scattering by edge-plasma density fluctuations in TCV

Timothy Goodman, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Stefano Alberti, Benoît Labit, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Fabio Riva, Oulfa Chellaï

In magnetically confined fusion devices, the use of millimeter waves (mmw) at the electron cyclotron (EC) frequencies ranges from plasma diagnostics to plasma heating, current drive and core confinement preservation. For large tokamaks such as ITER, numeri ...

2019

Verification and validation procedures with applications to plasma-edge turbulence simulations

Fabio Riva

Understanding the plasma dynamics in tokamaks is of fundamental importance to reliably predict the performances of future fusion devices. Because of the complex phenomena at play, state-of-the-art simulation codes are needed to investigate the plasma dynam ...

EPFL2017

Uncertainty propagation by using spectral methods: A practical application to a two-dimensional turbulence fluid model

Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva

To reduce the computational cost of the uncertainty propagation analysis, which is used to study the impact of input parameter variations on the results of a simulation, a general and simple to apply methodology based on decomposing the solution to the mod ...

American Institute of Physics2017

Blob dynamics in the TORPEX experiment: a multi-code validation

Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Fabio Riva

Three-dimensional and two-dimensional seeded blob simulations are performed with five different fluid models, all based on the drift-reduced Braginskii equations, and the numerical results are compared among themselves and validated against experimental me ...

Institute of Physics2016

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

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

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

Blob properties in full-turbulence simulations of the TCV scrape-off layer

Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Benoît Labit, Fabio Avino, Federico Nespoli, Federico David Halpern, Fabio Riva

To investigate blob properties in the tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL), we perform dedicated numerical nonlinear simulations of plasma turbulence in the SOL of a TCV discharge using the Global Braginskii Solver code. A blob detection technique is used for th ...

2017

The GBS code for tokamak scrape-off layer simulations

Paolo Ricci, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Trach-Minh Tran, Sébastien Jolliet, Federico David Halpern, Fabio Riva, Annamaria Mosetto, Christoph Wersal

We describe a new version of GBS, a 3D global, flux-driven plasma turbulence code to simulate the turbulent dynamics in the tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL), superseding the code presented by Ricci et al. (2012) [14]. The present work is driven by the object ...

Elsevier2016

Approaching the investigation of plasma turbulence through a rigorous verification and validation procedure: A practical examplea)

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Federico David Halpern, Fabio Riva

In the present work, a Verification and Validation procedure is presented and applied showing, through a practical example, how it can contribute to advancing our physics understanding of plasma turbulence. Bridging the gap between plasma physics and other ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2015

Numerical approach to the parallel gradient operator in tokamak scrape-off layer turbulence simulations and application to the GBS code

Paolo Ricci, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Sébastien Jolliet, Federico David Halpern, Fabio Riva, Annamaria Mosetto

This paper presents two discretisation schemes for the parallel gradient operator used in scrape-off layer plasma turbulence simulations. First, a simple model describing the propagation of electrostatic shear-Alfven waves, and retaining the key elements o ...

Elsevier2015

A methodology for the rigorous verification of Particle-in-Cell simulations

Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva, Carrie Fiona Beadle

A methodology to perform a rigorous verification of Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations is presented, both for assessing the correct implementation of the model equations (code verification), and evaluating the numerical uncertainty affecting the simulation ...

American Institute of Physics2017

Non-linear simulations of the TCV Scrape-Off Layer

Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Benoît Labit, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Federico Nespoli, Federico David Halpern, Fabio Riva

To investigate the mechanisms leading to the heat deposition onto the first wall in the Scrape-Off Layer (SOL), we perform dedicated numerical non-linear simulations of the SOL plasma dynamics of a TCV discharge using the GBS code. The simulated parallel h ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

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

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

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

Preliminary analysis of alternative divertors for DEMO

Paolo Ricci, Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Fabio Riva, Mirko Wensing

A physics and engineering analysis of alternative divertor configurations is carried out by examining benefits and problems by comparing the baseline single null solution with a Snowflake, an X- and a Super-X divertor. It is observed that alternative confi ...

Elsevier2021

Edge turbulence in ISTTOK: a multi-code fluid validation

Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva, Davide Galassi, Rogério Manuel Cabete De Jesus Jorge

Fluid models used to study the edge plasma region need to be benchmarked against similar conditions given that models can strongly differ in complexity and therefore the results they produce. Via this validation study undertaken through the framework of EU ...

2021