Publications related to Progress on the design of various magnetic sensors for ITER: diamagnetic and flux loops, high frequency coils, in-vessel and divertor coils, ex-vessel coils, and external Rogowskis

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H-Mode density limit disruption avoidance in ASDEX Upgrade, TCV and JET

Olivier Sauter, 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 ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2025

Topology Optimization of an Electromagnet Manipulator for 3D Uniform Magnetic Field

Yves Perriard, Adrien Jean-Michel Thabuis, Xiaotao Ren

Magnetic manipulation is a method used for biomedical applications to remotely control micro-robots in a contactless manner. The electromagnet manipulator should control a magnetic field with 3 degrees of freedom inside a region of interest. In various cas ...

IEEE2022

Drift-related transport and plasma-neutral interaction in the TCV divertor

Mirko Wensing

Thermonuclear fusion of light atoms is the primary energy source of stars, such as our Sun, that led to the emergence of life on Earth. However, its economic exploitation as a virtually unlimited and clean energy source is yet to be developed. One of the m ...

EPFL2021

SOLPS-ITER validation with TCV L-mode discharges

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Mirko Wensing, Filippo Bagnato, Lorenzo Martinelli, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Artur Perek

This work presents a quantitative test of SOLPS-ITER simulations against tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) L-mode experiments. These simulations account for drifts, currents, kinetic neutrals, and carbon impurities providing the most complete edge tra ...

2021

A New Cabled Stabilizer for the Nb3Sn React&Wind DEMO Conductor Prototype

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov, Kamil Sedlák, Mithlesh Kumar, Vincenzo D'Auria

A Nb3Sn based, React&Wind flat cable, named RW2, was developed in the past three years at the Swiss Plasma Center in the scope of the EUROfusion conceptual studies for DEMO. The test results presented earlier proved an excellent DC performance, but large e ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

Manufacturing and Test of the 1 MW Long-Pulse 84/126 GHz Dual-Frequency Gyrotron for TCV

Stefano Alberti, Damien Fasel, Blaise Marlétaz, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémie Dubray, Ioannis Pagonakis, Jérémy Genoud, François Jean Gaston Legrand

An 1 MW long-pulse (2s), 84/126 GHz dual frequency gyrotron has been produced by THALES MSI, France responding to the needs for upgrading the ECH system of the TCV tokamak The initial tests of the prototype carried out at EPFL, Switzerland, have verified a ...

IEEE2019

Microfabricated planar coils with high turns density: design and manufacturing

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Jasha Poliakine

This work addresses the design and the fabrication of small scale square planar coils with high density of turns and self inductances up to 170 µH. First, the modified Wheelers formula is used to determine the optimal number of turns in order to achieve th ...

2016

Design Exploration of Energy-Performance Trade-offs for Wireless Sensor Networks

David Atienza Alonso, Francisco Javier Rincon Vallejos, Nadia Khaled, Ivan Beretta

Wireless sensor networks (WNSs) are gradually evolving from a promising technology to a well-established reality in a large set of different domains. In order to fulfill the requirements of the specific scenario, a WSN must provide the right tradeoffs betw ...

IEEE2012

Assessment of the ITER High-Frequency Magnetic Diagnostic Set

Thomas Maeder, René Chavan, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Jean-Marc Moret, Albert Perez, Gilbert Tonetti, Duccio Testa, Francisco Sanchez, Matthieu Toussaint

The ITER high-frequency (HF) magnetic diagnostic system has to provide essential measurements of MHD instabilities with |deltaBmeas/BPOL|~1e-4 (~1G) for frequencies up to 2MHz to resolve toroidal mode numbers (n) in the range |n|=10 to |n|=50. A review of ...

Elsevier2011

Proposal and Validation of Medium-Frequency Power Transformer Design Methodology

Alfred Rufer

Power electronics is continuously evolving toward higher power densities. Consequently, volume, weight, and material reduction are becoming major design issues, which lead the research focus toward high/medium-frequency power conversion systems. This paper ...

2011

Stability and toroidal rotation properties of highly shaped plasmas in the TCV tokamak

Andrea Scarabosio

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities and plasma rotation have various impacts on particle and thermal transport in toroidal plasmas. MHD instabilities degrade the confinement, limit the maximum achievable plasma pressure, and can lead to plasma disrupti ...

EPFL2006

140 GHz high-power gyrotron development for the stellarator W7-X

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge

Electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) has proven to be one of the most attractive heating schemes for stellarators. Therefore, ECRH was chosen to be the main heating method for the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator (W7-X) now under construction at IPP Grei ...

2005