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Use of virtual actuators in ASDEX Upgrade control

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Integrated operation scenarios: Chapter 6 of the special issue: on the path to tokamak burning plasma operation

Introduction and Overview: Chapter 1 of the Special Issue: on the Path to Tokamak Burning Plasma Operation

Transport and confinement physics Chapter 2 of the special issue: on the path to tokamak burning plasma operation

Milestone in predicting core plasma turbulence: successful multi-channel validation of the gyrokinetic code GENE

Performance of the First 80-kA HTS CICC for High-Field Application in Future Fusion Reactors

Global fluid simulations of plasma turbulence in stellarators

Disruption avoidance and investigation of the H-Mode density limit in ASDEX Upgrade

Dynamic steady-state coil current allocation for plasma shape control: A study on the TCV tokamak

Re-design of EU DEMO with a low aspect ratio

Scenario optimization for the tokamak ramp-down phase in RAPTOR: A. Analysis and model validation on ASDEX Upgrade

Experimental study and interpretative modelling of the Power Exhaust in Configurations with Multiple X-Points in TCV

Overview of fast particle experiments in the first MAST Upgrade experimental campaigns

Study of impurity C transport and plasma rotation in negative triangularity on the TCV tokamak

Towards practical reinforcement learning for tokamak magnetic control

First-principle based predictions of the effects of negative triangularity on DTT scenarios

Inter-discharge optimization for fast, reliable access to ASDEX Upgrade advanced tokamak scenario

Divertor turbulence characterisation using Gas Puff Imaging in the TCV tokamak

Nonlinear simulation of plasma turbulence using a gyrokinetic moment-based approach

Experiments and gyrokinetic simulations of TCV plasmas with negative triangularity in view of DTT operations

Long plasma duration operation analyses with an international multi-machine (tokamaks and stellarators) database