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Helicon normal modes in radially non-uniform plasma column

Ivo Furno, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier, Renat Karimov

Helicon discharges are often considered somewhat mysterious, exhibiting experimental behaviors that are challenging to explain, such as abrupt plasma density jumps, hysteresis, and ‘blue core’ formation, among others. A significant part of the difficulty i ...

2025

The quasi-continuous exhaust regime in ASDEX Upgrade and JET

Olivier Sauter, Benoît Labit

The quasi-continuous exhaust (QCE) regime is a type-I ELM-free high confinement regime obtained at high plasma shaping and high separatrix density. A comparison with various ELM-free regimes in the literature is presented together with potential physics mo ...

Elsevier2025

Design and implementation of a model-based hierarchical architecture for plasma shape control in the TCV tokamak

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Cristian Galperti, Adriano Mele, Alessandro Tenaglia

Plasma shape control is a fundamental tool for effective tokamak operation, allowing improved plasma performance and the pursuit of challenging scientific objectives. In this framework, the Tokamak á Configuration Variable (TCV) of the École Polytechnique ...

IOP Publishing2025

Real-time density profile simulations on ASDEX Upgrade and the impact of the edge boundary condition

Olivier Sauter, Francesco Pastore

The plasma density is a crucial parameter of tokamak discharge as it impacts the fusion power, stability limits, influences detachment onset and impurities transport. The electron density profile shaping affects the deposition location of the external heat ...

Elsevier BV2025

Direct prediction of saturated neoclassical tearing modes in slab using an equilibrium approach

Jonathan Graves, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Christopher Berg Smiet, Erol Balkovic

We demonstrate for the first time that the nonlinear saturation of neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs) can be found directly using a variational principle based on Taylor relaxation, without needing to simulate the intermediate, resistivity-dependent dynamic ...

IOP Publishing2024

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

Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Alessandro Pau

In recent years a strong effort has been made to investigate disruption avoidance schemes in order to aid the development of integrated operational scenarios for ITER. Within the EUROfusion programme the disruptive H-mode density limit (HDL) has been studi ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Nonlinear saturation of resistive tearing modes in a cylindrical tokamak with and without solving the dynamics

Joaquim Loizu Cisquella

We show that the saturation of resistive tearing modes in a cylindrical tokamak, as well as the corresponding island width, can be directly calculated with a magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equilibrium code without solving the dynamics and without considering r ...

Cambridge University Press2023

Full-discharge simulation and optimization with the RAPTOR code, from present tokamaks to ITER and DEMO

Simon Van Mulders

Tokamak devices aim to magnetically confine a hydrogen plasma at sufficiently high pressure to achieve net energy production from nuclear fusion of light isotopes. Predictive modeling and optimization is crucial for reliable operation of tokamak reactors, ...

EPFL2023

Vertical electron cyclotron emission diagnostic on the tokamak à configuration variable

Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte

In this paper, a diagnostic for the measurement of the electron cyclotron emission (ECE) from non-thermal electrons in magnetically confined fusion plasmas is presented. The diagnostic employs a vertical viewing line of sight that allows us to directly inf ...

2023

A self-consistent multi-component model of plasma turbulence and kinetic neutral dynamics for the simulation of the tokamak boundary

Paolo Ricci

A self-consistent model is presented for the simulation of a multi-component plasma in the tokamak boundary. A deuterium plasma is considered, with the plasma species that include electrons, deuterium atomic ions and deuterium molecular ions, while the deu ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

The power threshold of H-mode access in mixed hydrogen-tritium and pure tritium plasmas at JET with ITER-like wall

Henri Weisen

The heating power to access the high confinement mode (H-mode), P (LH), scales approximately inversely with the isotope mass of the main ion plasma species as found in (protonic) hydrogen, deuterium and tritium plasmas in many fusion facilities over the la ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Benchmark of a self-consistent dynamic 1D divertor model DIV1D using the 2D SOLPS-ITER code

Holger Reimerdes, Mirko Wensing

This paper presents DIV1D, a new 1D dynamic physics-based model of the divertor plasma under development to study and control the dynamics of detached plasmas. An innovative feature of DIV1D is that it mimics cross-field transport using an effective flux e ...

2022

Enhanced confinement in diverted negative-triangularity L-mode plasmas in TCV

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alessandro Pau, Benoît Labit, Laurie Porte, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Alessandro Marinoni, Matteo Vallar, Filippo Bagnato

The favorable confinement properties of negative-triangularity (NT) tokamak configurations were discovered in the TCV tokamak in the late 1990s and were documented over the two following decades, through investigations of predominantly electron-heated plas ...

2022

Results from the Alfven Eigenmode Active Diagnostic during the 2019-2020 JET deuterium campaign

Ambrogio Fasoli, Duccio Testa, Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia

This paper presents results of extensive analysis of mode excitation observed during the operation of the Alfven Eigenmode Active Diagnostic (AEAD) in the JET tokamak during the 2019-2020 deuterium campaign. Six of eight toroidally spaced antennas, each wi ...

2020

DIII-D research towards establishing the scientific basis for future fusion reactors

Yi Wang, Olivier Sauter, Richard Pitts, Sun Hee Kim, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Terunobu Akiyama, Federico David Halpern, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Jeffrey Huang, Alessandro Bortolon, Alessandro Marinoni, Gabriele Merlo, Dongbin Zhao, Fang Liu, Zhixian Yan, Stefan Müller, Wei Wu, Kyungjin Kim, Tzu-Hsien Shen, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Xi Chen, Gang Yu, Xin Yang, Shouguo Wang, Luc Nicolas Xuan Zeng, Sung Chul Park, Fang Wang

DIII-D research is addressing critical challenges in preparation for ITER and the next generation of fusion devices through focusing on plasma physics fundamentals that underpin key fusion goals, understanding the interaction of disparate core and boundary ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

First principles gyrokinetic analysis of electromagnetic plasma instabilities

Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Alberto Bottino, Emmanuel Lanti, Noé Thomas Elie Ohana

A two-fold analysis of electromagnetic core tokamak instabilities in the framework of the gyrokinetic theory is presented. First principle theoretical foundations of the gyrokinetic theory are used to explain and justify the numerical results obtained with ...

2019

Determination of tungsten sources in the JET-ILW divertor by spectroscopic imaging in the presence of a strong plasma continuum

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Jonathan Graves, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Yves Martin, Patrick Blanchard, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Mikhail Maslov, Federico Nespoli, Alessandro Pau, David Pfefferlé, Davide Galassi, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Liang Yao, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Cristian Sommariva, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Li Shuai

The identification of the sources of atomic tungsten and the measurement of their radiation distribution in front of all plasma-facing components has been performed in JET with the help of two digital cameras with the same two-dimensional view, equipped wi ...

Elsevier2019

Turbulent transport in TCV plasmas with positive and negative triangularity

Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Matteo Fontana, Gabriele Merlo

Local gyrokinetic simulations with the GENE code are used to investigate the turbulent transport for different levels of neutral beam injection heating power in the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) for plasmas with both positive and negative edge tri ...

2019

Long-lived coupled peeling ballooning modes preceding ELMs on JET

Olivier Sauter, Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Jonathan Graves, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Yves Martin, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Nicola Vianello, Robin Humphry-Baker, Sun Hee Kim, Federico Nespoli, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, David Pfefferlé, Davide Galassi, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Cristian Sommariva, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Mikhail Maslov, Marco Wischmeier, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Liang Yao, Daniel Scott Alessi, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Partha Dutta, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Julio Rodriguez, Vlad Trifa, Li Shuai, Rebecca Hill

In some JET discharges, type-I edge localised modes (ELMs) are preceded by a class of low-frequency oscillations (Perez et al 2004 Nucl. Fusion 44 609). While in many cases the ELM is triggered during the growth phase of this oscillation, it is also observ ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Multiphysics approach to plasma neutron source modelling at the JET tokamak

Henri Weisen

A novel multiphysics methodology for the computation of realistic plasma neutron sources has been developed. The method is based on state-of-the-art plasma transport and neutron spectrum calculations, coupled with a Monte Carlo neutron transport code, brid ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019