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Modelling of sawtooth-induced fast ion transport in positive and negative triangularity in TCV

Basil Duval, Olivier Sauter, Alexander Karpushov, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Duccio Testa, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Lorenzo Stipani, Matteo Vallar, Dmytry Mykytchuk

Internal kinks are a common magneto hydro-dynamic (MHD) instability observed in tokamak operation when the q profile in the plasma core is close to unity. This MHD instability impacts both the transport of the bulk plasma (current, particle and energy tran ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Overview of the TCV tokamak experimental programme

Patrick Blanchard, Stephan Brunner, Stefano Alberti, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Xavier Llobet, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Oulfa Chellaï, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Matteo Fontana, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Dahye Choi, Aylwin Iantchenko, Mengdi Kong, Roberto Maurizio, Francesco Carpanese, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Progress from ASDEX Upgrade experiments in preparing the physics basis of ITER operation and DEMO scenario development

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Benoît Labit, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Sommariva, Alessandro Pau

An overview of recent results obtained at the tokamak ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) is given. A work flow for predictive profile modelling of AUG discharges was established which is able to reproduce experimental H-mode plasma profiles based on engineering parameter ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Approaching detachment in I-mode-response of core confinement and the edge pedestal in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak

Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle

Experiments on nitrogen assisted divertor detachment in the improved energy confinement mode (I-mode) are reported from the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak. When nitrogen is introduced into the divertor and radiation losses cool the divertor plasma down, a loss of c ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Impact of the new TCV baffled divertor upgrade on pedestal structure and performance

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Davide Galassi

A new set of carbon tiles, neutral beam heating optics and gas baffles were installed on TCV during thebaffled divertor upgrade in early 2019. The installation of the baffles allows a deconvolution of the roles ofmain chamber and divertor neutral pressure ...

Elsevier2021

Code Integration, Data Verification, and Models Validation Using the ITER Integrated Modeling and Analysis System (IMAS) in EUROfusion

Olivier Sauter, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Giovanni Tardini

The ITER Integrated Modelling and Analysis System (IMAS) has been adopted by the EUROfusion Consortium as a platform to facilitate the analysis and verification of data from multiple tokamaks for the integration of physics codes and the validation of physi ...

2020

First demonstration of real-time kinetic equilibrium reconstruction on TCV by coupling LIUQE and RAPTOR

Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Cristian Galperti, Francesco Carpanese

Kinetic equilibrium reconstruction (KER) in tokamaks is the solution of the free-boundary MHD equilibrium that best fits the external magnetic measurements and the internal plasma profiles as imposed from modeling and/or available internal measurements. In ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

Overview of physics studies on ASDEX Upgrade

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alberto Bottino, Marco Wischmeier, Andrea Scarabosio, Hartmut Zohm, Laurie Porte, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Benoît Labit, Emiliano Fable, Alessandro Bortolon, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Fang Liu, Dávid Wágner, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Emanuele Poli, Nicola Vianello, Giovanni Tardini, Cristian Sommariva, Alessandro Pau, Otto Asunta, Haomin Sun, Xiao Wang, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

The ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) programme, jointly run with the EUROfusion MST1 task force, continues to significantly enhance the physics base of ITER and DEMO. Here, the full tungsten wall is a key asset for extrapolating to future devices. The high overall heat ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Deep neural networks for plasma tomography with applications to JET and COMPASS

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have found applications in many image processing tasks, such as feature extraction, image classification, and object recognition. It has also been shown that the inverse of CNNs, so-called deconvolutional neural network ...

2019

Role of fast ion pressure in the isotope effect in JET L-mode plasmas

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

This paper presents results of JET ITER-like wall L-mode experiments in hydrogen and deuterium (D) plasmas, dedicated to the study of the isotope dependence of ion heat transport by determination of the ion critical gradient and stiffness by varying the io ...

2019

Modification of the Alfven wave spectrum by pellet injection

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Ricardo Lima, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Soo-Jin Moon, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

Alfven eigenmodes driven by energetic particles are routinely observed in tokamak plasmas. These modes consist of poloidal harmonics of shear Alfven waves coupled by inhomogeneity in the magnetic field. Further coupling is introduced by 3D inhomogeneities ...

2019

Extension of the operating space of high-beta(N) fully non-inductive scenarios on TCV using neutral beam injection

Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Alexander Karpushov, Duccio Testa, Javier García Hernández, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Leonardo Pigatto, Mengdi Kong, Matteo Vallar

The fully non-inductive sustainment of high normalized beta plasmas (beta(N)) is a crucial challenge for the steady-state operation of a tokamak reactor. In order to assess the difficulties facing such scenarios, steady-state regimes have been explored on ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Ion cyclotron resonance heating scenarios for DEMO

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

The present paper offers an overview of the potential of ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH) or radio frequency heating for the DEMO machine. It is found that various suitable heating schemes are available. Similar to ITER and in view of the limited ban ...

2019

Evolution of nitrogen concentration and ammonia production in N-2-seeded H-mode discharges at ASDEX Upgrade

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alberto Bottino, Marco Wischmeier, Andrea Scarabosio, Hartmut Zohm, Laurie Porte, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Emiliano Fable, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Dávid Wágner, Doohyun Kim, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Emanuele Poli, Nicola Vianello, Giovanni Tardini, Donghyun Kim, Cristian Sommariva, Otto Asunta, Haomin Sun, Xiao Wang, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

Ammonia formation was studied in a series of dedicated nitrogen seeded H-mode discharges at ASDEX Upgrade. The evolution of ammonia formation was investigated with a reference phase before the seeding, and a long, stable flat-top nitrogen-seeded phase. It ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

COREDIV numerical simulation of high neutron rate JET-ILW DD pulses in view of extension to JET-ILW DT experiments

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Martinus Gijs, Partha Dutta, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Vlad Trifa, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Ricardo Lima, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Sun Hee Kim, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Soo-Jin Moon, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Julio Rodriguez, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Daniel Scott Alessi, Daniele Brunetti, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Li Shuai, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Overview of the JET preparation for deuterium-tritium operation with the ITER like-wall

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Martinus Gijs, Partha Dutta, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Vlad Trifa, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Ricardo Lima, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Karin Söderström, Sun Hee Kim, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Soo-Jin Moon, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Julio Rodriguez, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Daniel Scott Alessi, Daniele Brunetti, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Interpretative and predictive modelling of Joint European Torus collisionality scans

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

Transport modelling of Joint European Torus (JET) dimensionless collisionality scaling experiments in various operational scenarios is presented. Interpretative simulations at a fixed radial position are combined with predictive JETTO simulations of temper ...

2019

First principles and integrated modelling achievements towards trustful fusion power predictions for JET and ITER

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

Predictability of burning plasmas is a key issue for designing and building credible future fusion devices. In this context, an important effort of physics understanding and guidance is being carried out in parallel to JET experimental campaigns in H and D ...

2019

A new mechanism for increasing density peaking in tokamaks: improvement of the inward particle pinch with edge E x B shearing

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

Developing successful tokamak operation scenarios, as well as confident extrapolation of present-day knowledge requires a rigorous understanding of plasma turbulence, which largely determines the quality of the confinement. In particular, accurate particle ...

2019

Recurrence Plots for Dynamic Analysis of Type-I ELMs at JET With a Carbon Wall

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

In this paper, the dynamic characteristics of type-I edge-localized modes (ELM) time series from the JET tokamak, the world's largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment, have been investigated through recurrence plots (RPs). The analysis has be ...

2019

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Ajay Chandrarajan Jayalekshmi

Mirko Wensing

Lorenzo Stipani

Federico Pesamosca

Olivier Claude Martin Février

Anna Ngoc Minh Trang Vu

Arsène Stéphane Tema Biwole

Lorenzo Martinelli

Jean Arthur Cazabonne

Alessandro Pau

Matteo Vallar

Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno

The tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) continues to leverage its unique shaping capabilities, flexible heating systems and modern control system to address critical issues in preparation for ITER and a fusion power plant. For the 2019-20 campaign its c ...

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Nicola Vianello

Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo

Samuel Lanthaler

Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers

Two high performance JET-ILW pulses, pertaining to the 2016 experimental campaign, have been numerically simulated with the self-consistent code COREDIV with the aim of predicting the ELM-averaged power load to the target when extrapolated to DT plasmas. T ...

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Li Shuai

Nicola Vianello

Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo

Samuel Lanthaler

Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers

For the past several years, the JET scientific programme (Pamela et al 2007 Fusion Eng. Des. 82 590) has been engaged in a multi-campaign effort, including experiments in D, H and T, leading up to 2020 and the first experiments with 50%/50% D-T mixtures si ...

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