Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle

Teaching & PhD PhD Students Guillaume Raphäel Hervé Van Parys, Cosmas Quirin Lorenz Heiss Courses Control and Operation of Tokamaks PHYS-748 This course treats the main issues in operation and control of a tokamak. Control-oriented models are derived and controllers are designed using techniques from modern control theory. Operational limits are discussed as well as state-of-the-art research questions for future reactors. Magnetic confinement PHYS-731 To provide an overview of the fundamentals of magnetic confinement (MC) of plasmas for fusion.The different MC configurations are presented, with a description of their operating regimes.The basic elements of particle & energy transport, of plasma-wall interaction & of burning plasma are introduced.

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

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

Sliding Surface Based Schemes for the Tokamak a Configuration Variable