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Tokamak plasma edge studies by microwave short-pulse reflectometry and backscattering

Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

Moving towards an increased understanding of the dynamic processes in the edge of tokamak plasmas requires continuous innovation in diagnostic capabilities, pushing the envelope in both spatial and temporal dimenstions. Plasma density and rotation, and the ...

EPFL2019

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

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

Isotope effects on energy transport in the core of ASDEX-Upgrade tokamak plasmas: Turbulence measurements and model validation

Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

Design and operation of future tokamak fusion reactors using a deuterium-tritium 50:50 mix requires a solid understanding of how energy confinement properties change with ion mass. This study looks at how turbulence and energy transport change in L-mode pl ...

2023

W-band tunable, multi-channel, frequency comb Doppler backscattering diagnostic in the ASDEX-Upgrade tokamak

Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

This article presents the design, implementation, and first data of a uniquely flexible, multi-channel, frequency comb Doppler backscattering diagnostic recently made operational in the ASDEX-Upgrade tokamak [A. Gruber and O. Gruber, Fusion Sci. Technol. 4 ...

2023

PLASMA SHAPE AND FUELING DEPENDENCE ON THE SMALL ELMS REGIME IN TCV AND AUG

Benoît Labit, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Roberto Maurizio

A series of experiments has been conducted at AUG and TCV to disentangle the role of fueling, plasma triangularity and closeness to a double null (DN) configuration for the onset of the small ELM regime. At AUG, the role of the SOL density has been revisit ...

2018

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

A locked mode indicator for disruption prediction on JET and ASDEX upgrade

Jérémie Gérard Laurent, Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Jonathan Graves, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Marco Wischmeier, Jean-Marc Moret, Mikhail Maslov, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, David Pfefferlé, Davide Galassi, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Roland Behn, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Liang Yao, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Cristian Sommariva, Benoît Labit, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, Holger Reimerdes, Laurie Porte, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Alberto Bottino, Marc Gruber, Alexander Karpushov, Emiliano Fable, Ben McMillan, Andrea Scarabosio, Federico Nespoli, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Wouter Vijvers, Matteo Fontana, Yanis Andrebe, Cristian Galperti, Haomin Sun, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Doohyun Kim, Nicola Vianello, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Anna Teplukhina, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Zhouji Huang, Jose Vicente Sanchez Mut, Attila Bencze, Dávid Wágner, Claudio Marini, Himank Anand, Dahye Choi, Hoang Bao Le, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Anton Malygin, Mélanie Preynas, Mateusz Gospodarczyk

The aim of this paper is to present a signal processing algorithm that, applied to the raw Locked Mode signal, allows us to obtain a disruption indicator in principle exploitable on different tokamaks. A common definition of such an indicator for different ...

2019

Plasma profile reconstruction supported by kinetic modeling

Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

Combining the analysis of multiple diagnostics and well-chosen prior information in the framework of Bayesian probability theory, the Integrated Data Analysis code (IDA Fischer et al 2010 Fusion Sci. Technol. 58 675-84) can provide density and temperature ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Design of a correlation reflectometer radiometer diagnostic and measurements of the electron density-temperature cross-phase angle in the H-mode pedestal with small edge localized modes at ASDEX Upgrade

Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

This work presents the hardware design and first results from a newly commissioned correlation reflectometer radiometer diagnostic that measures the cross-phase angle between electron density and temperature fluctuations in ASDEX Upgrade plasmas. This diag ...

AIP Publishing2025

Overview of the TCV tokamak experimental programme

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Stefano Alberti, Duccio Testa, Jean-Marc Moret, Ivo Furno, Patrick Blanchard, Benoît Labit, Jan Horacek, Paolo Ricci, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jonathan Graves, Stephan Brunner, Holger Reimerdes, Laurie Porte, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Alexander Karpushov, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Xavier Llobet, Matteo Fontana, Simon Van Mulders, Alessandro Pau, Yanis Andrebe, Cristian Galperti, Joan Decker, 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, Roberto Maurizio, Oulfa Chellaï, Mirko Wensing, Claudia Colandrea, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Francesco Carpanese, Nicola Offeddu, Aylwin Iantchenko, Maurizio Giacomin, Lorenzo Martinelli, Oleg Krutkin, Dahye Choi, Federico Pesamosca, Hugo Antoine Georges Arnichand, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Benjamin Alexandre Vincent, Umesh Kumar, Arsène Stéphane Tema Biwole, Lorenzo Stipani, Anna Ngoc Minh Trang Vu, Jean Arthur Cazabonne, Stefano Marchioni, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Renat Karimov, Ajay Chandrarajan Jayalekshmi

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 ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

ELM-induced cold pulse propagation in ASDEX Upgrade

Olivier Sauter, Richard Pitts, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Marco Wischmeier, Jean-Marc Moret, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Roland Behn, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Cristian Sommariva, Benoît Labit, Holger Reimerdes, Laurie Porte, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Marc Gruber, Alexander Karpushov, Emiliano Fable, Ben McMillan, Federico Nespoli, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Matteo Fontana, Yanis Andrebe, Cristian Galperti, Joan Decker, Dávid Wágner, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Doohyun Kim, Nicola Vianello, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Anna Teplukhina, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Zhouji Huang, Attila Bencze, Claudio Marini, Wouter Vijvers, Himank Anand, Dahye Choi, Hoang Bao Le, Anton Malygin, Mélanie Preynas

In ASDEX Upgrade, the propagation of cold pulses induced by type-I edge localized modes (ELMs) is studied using electron cyclotron emission measurements, in a dataset of plasmas with moderate triangularity. It is found that the edge safety factor or the pl ...

2019

V-band nanosecond-scale pulse reflectometer diagnostic in the TCV tokamak

Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

This article describes the realization of a novel approach to short pulse (∼1 ns) reflectometry (SPR) recently implemented in the tokamak configuration variable tokamak. Taking advantage of a fast arbitrary waveform generator and vector-network-analyzer ex ...

2019

High resolution density pedestal measurements during edge localized modes by short-pulse reflectometry in the TCV tokamak

Stefano Coda, Benoît Labit, Laurie Porte, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

This publication presents high spatio-temporal resolution (mm/μs) density profile measurements of the pedestal top during type I, III, and small edge localized mode (ELM) H- mode plasmas in the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV). These measurements wer ...

2021

Electron temperature fluctuation measurements with Correlation Electron Cyclotron Emission in L-mode and I-mode plasmas at ASDEX Upgrade

Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

The Correlation Electron Cyclotron Emission (CECE) diagnostic at ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) is used to investigate the features of outer core and pedestal (rho(pol) = 0.85-1.0) turbulence across confinement regime transitions. The I-mode confinement regime is a p ...

E D P SCIENCES2023

V-band Doppler backscattering diagnostic in the TCV tokamak

Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Matthieu Toussaint, Pierre Lavanchy, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Nicola Offeddu

A variable configuration V-band heterodyne Doppler back-scattering diagnostic has been recently made operational in the tokamak a configuration variable. This article describes the hardware setup options, flexible quasi-optical launcher antenna, data-analy ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2018

Automated shot-to-shot optimization of the plasma start-up scenario in the TCV tokamak

Antoine Maier, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Cristian Galperti, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Artur Perek, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Benjamin Alexandre Vincent

Plasma start-up is typically achieved manipulating poloidal magnetic fields, gas injection and possibly auxiliary heating. Model-based design techniques have been gaining increasing attention in view of future large tokamaks which have more stringent const ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Validation of the ICRF antenna coupling code RAPLICASOL against TOPICA and experiments

Telmo David Ribeiro Da Costa, Pedro Filipe Varela Saraiva, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Patrick Blanchard, Richard Pitts, Yves Martin, Javier García Hernández, Bruno Marchand, Duccio Testa, Jean-Marc Moret, Alessandro Pau, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Roland Behn, Benoît Labit, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Holger Reimerdes, Laurie Porte, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Marco Wischmeier, Marc Gruber, Alexander Karpushov, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Alberto Bottino, Emiliano Fable, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Doohyun Kim, Federico Nespoli, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Andrea Scarabosio, Umar Sheikh, Wouter Vijvers, Matteo Fontana, Yanis Andrebe, Cristian Galperti, Haomin Sun, Joan Decker, Zhouji Huang, Ben McMillan, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Diego Carnevale, Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz, Nicola Vianello, Cristian Sommariva, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Anna Teplukhina, Hoang Bao Le, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Jose Vicente Sanchez Mut, Dávid Wágner, Jose Felix Vega Stavro, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Claudio Marini, Pamela Solange Valdés Undurraga, Wei Zhang, Lenke Horváth, Attila Bencze, Himank Anand, Dahye Choi, Andrea Salmi, Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo, Erwan Fabrice Koch, Hugo Antoine Georges Arnichand, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Allan Svejstrup Nielsen, Michael Oliver Reinke, Pierre Jacquot, Stefano Mattei, Daniel Molina Romero, Ana Susnjara, Anton Malygin, Mélanie Preynas, Thomas Riedl, Mateusz Gospodarczyk, Pascal Morel, Wen Bin Chng

In this paper we validate the finite element code RAPLICASOL, which models radiofrequency wave propagation in edge plasmas near ICRF antennas, against calculations with the TOPICA code. We compare the output of both codes for the ASDEX Upgrade 2-strap ante ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Physics research on the TCV tokamak facility: from conventional to alternative scenarios and beyond

Léa Fadil, Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Stefano Alberti, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Marco Wischmeier, Jean-Marc Moret, Ivo Furno, Nicola Vianello, Federico Nespoli, Minh Quang Tran, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Davide Galassi, Benoît Labit, Paolo Ricci, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jonathan Graves, Holger Reimerdes, Laurie Porte, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Alexander Karpushov, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Christian Schlatter, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Umar Sheikh, Wouter Vijvers, Xavier Llobet, Anna Teplukhina, Matteo Fontana, Yanis Andrebe, Cristian Galperti, Joan Decker, Zhouji Huang, Artur Perek, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Alberto Mariani, Matteo Vallar, Justin Richard Ball, Mengdi Kong, Hugo De Oliveira, Claudio Marini, Rémy Jacquier, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Filippo Bagnato, Roberto Maurizio, Oulfa Chellaï, Himank Anand, Mirko Wensing, Francesco Carpanese, Aylwin Iantchenko, Dahye Choi, Federico Pesamosca, Hugo Antoine Georges Arnichand, Arsène Stéphane Tema Biwole, Lorenzo Stipani, Anna Ngoc Minh Trang Vu, Joyeeta Sinha, Nicola Offeddu, Joshua Nathaniel Hawke

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Pulse Reflectometer and Doppler back-scattering diagnostics in the TCV Tokamak

Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

Latest DBS and Pulse reflectometer developments in the TCV tokamak are presented ...

2018