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A fast and robust recipe for modeling nonideal magnetohydrodynamic effects in star formation simulations

Context. Nonideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects are thought to be a crucial component of the star formation process. Numerically, several complications render the study of nonideal MHD effects in 3D simulations extremely challenging and hinder efforts ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2025

Characterization of the Full-Size Superconducting ASG Joint Designed for the DTT Toroidal Field Coils

Kamil Sedlák, Mattia Ortino

The Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) facility is a challenging high-field and compact tokamak, currently under construction at the Frascati ENEA Research Center. Its purpose is to significantly contribute to the exploration, design and assessment of systems int ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2025

Radio-frequency capacitively coupled plasma parameters evolution as a function of magnetic field strength

Ivo Furno, Alessandro Geraldini

The use of magnetic fields in low-temperature plasma physics is promising in numerous applications. The magnetic field acts on the kinetic of the plasma charged particles, drastically modifying the ion and electron trajectories in the plasma. The influence ...

2025

Swift : a modern highly parallel gravity and smoothed particle hydrodynamics solver for astrophysical and cosmological applications

Yves Revaz, Yannick Michael Bahé, Loïc Hausammann, Mladen Ivkovic

Numerical simulations have become one of the key tools used by theorists in all the fields of astrophysics and cosmology. The development of modern tools that target the largest existing computing systems and exploit state-of-the-art numerical methods and ...

2024

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

Olivier Sauter, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Anna Teplukhina, Simon Van Mulders, Cassandre Ekta Contré

We discuss how the combination of experimental observations and rapid modeling has enabled to improve understanding of the tokamak ramp-down phase in ASDEX Upgrade. A series of dedicated experiments has been performed, to disentangle the effect of individu ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

SPOC: Imitating Shortest Paths in Simulation Enables Effective Navigation and Manipulation in the Real World

Kunal Pratap Singh

Reinforcement learning (RL) with dense rewards and imitation learning (IL) with human-generated trajectories are the most widely used approaches for training modern embodied agents. RL requires extensive reward shaping and auxiliary losses and is often too ...

IEEE2024

Dynamics of JET runaway electron beams in D2-rich shattered pellet injection mitigation experiments

Olivier Sauter, Alessandro Pau, Joan Decker, Cristian Sommariva

The publication provide further insights into the dynamics of JET runaway electron (RE) beams mitigated by D2-rich shattered pellet injection (SPI) (Reux et al 2022 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 64 034002). Multi-diagnostic analyses show that mechanisms cau ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Modelling of nonneutral plasmas trapped by electric and magnetic fields relevant to gyrotron electron guns

Guillaume Michel Le Bars

Gyrotrons are a class of high-power vacuum-electronics microwave sources, which are envisioned to play an important role in the domain of magnetically confined fusion plasmas. Indeed, only gyrotrons are capable of producing continuous electromagnetic waves ...

EPFL2023

Validation of spectral simulation tools in the context of ipRGC-influenced light responses of building occupants

Marilyne Andersen, Clotilde Marie A Pierson

With the growing awareness about ipRGC-influenced light (IIL) responses, design applications related to these responses are flourishing. To compare design options and optimize lighting conditions for building occupants, lighting simulations are typically u ...

2023

Development of a reduced model for energetic particle transport by sawteeth in tokamaks

Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Anna Teplukhina, Matteo Vallar, Jiangyan Yang

The sawtooth instability is known for inducing transport and loss of energetic particles (EPs), and for generating seed magnetic islands that can trigger tearing modes. Both effects degrade the overall plasma performance. Several theories and numerical mod ...

2022

Non-locality of the turbulent electromotive force

Abhijit Bhausaheb Bendre

The generation of large-scale magnetic fields ((B) over bar) in astrophysical systems is driven by the mean turbulent electromotive force ((E) over bar), the cross-correlation between local fluctuations of velocity and magnetic fields. This can depend non- ...

2022

Theory-based scaling laws of near and far scrape-off layer widths in single-null L-mode discharges

Jan Horacek, Paolo Ricci, Holger Reimerdes, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Maurizio Giacomin

Theory-based scaling laws of the near and far scrape-off layer (SOL) widths are analytically derived for L-mode diverted tokamak discharges by using a two-fluid model. The near SOL pressure and density decay lengths are obtained by leveraging a balance amo ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

An adjoint method for determining the sensitivity of island size to magnetic field variations

Alessandro Geraldini

An adjoint method to calculate the gradient of island width in stellarators is presented and applied to a set of magnetic field configurations. The underlying method for calculation of the island width is that of Cary & Hanson (Phys. Fluids B, vol. 3, issu ...

Cambridge University Press2021

Semi-empirical extrapolation of JET baseline and hybrid scenario fusion performance to D-T operation

Henri Weisen

We present DT neutron rate extrapolations for the baseline and hybrid scenarios of the imminent JET DTE2 experimental campaign using the Monte Carlo heating code ASCOT, using empirically scaled plasmas parameters as inputs. The scalings used are based on t ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Parallel Hybrid Simulations of Block Copolymer Nanocomposites using Coarray Fortran

Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora

Computer simulations of experimentally comparable system sizes in soft matter often require considerable elapsed times. The use of many cores can reduce the needed time, ideally proportionally to the number of processors. In this paper a parallel computati ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Identification of an Optimized Heating and Fast Ion Generation Scheme for the Wendelstein 7-X Stellarator

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, David Pfefferlé, Jonathan Graves, Hamish William Patten

A Doppler shifted resonance minority species ion cyclotron range of frequency (ICRF) scheme for heating neutral beam ions has been identified and optimized for theWendelstein 7-X stellarator. Compared with more conventional methods, the synergetic scheme i ...

2020

Diffusion Process Modeling by Using Fractional-Order Models

Tomas Skovranek

This paper deals with a concept and description of a RC network as an electro-analog model of diffusion process which enables to simulate heat dissipation under different initial and boundary conditions. It is based on well-known analogy between heat and e ...

Elsevier2015