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Impact of impurity seeding on shattered pellet injection mitigations on the Joint European Torus

Umar Sheikh, Mengdi Kong

Plasma disruptions present a significant challenge to the viability of fusion energy production in tokamak reactors. Among disruption mitigation techniques, shattered pellet injection (SPI) has emerged as a promising approach. The results presented in this ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Heat and particle exhaust in double-null configuration in WEST: Experimental study and modeling with SOLEDGE-EIRENE

Olivier Claude Martin Février

The WEST tokamak allows for high power steady-state plasma discharges in Lower Single-Null (LSN), Double-Null (DN) and Upper Single-Null (USN) configurations. In this contribution, first results from experimental L-mode DN discharges with 3.1 MW of additio ...

Elsevier2025

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

3D radiated power analysis of JET SPI discharges using the Emis3D forward modeling tool

Umar Sheikh

Precise values for radiated energy in tokamak disruption experiments are needed to validate disruption mitigation techniques for burning plasma tokamaks like ITER and SPARC. Control room analysis of radiated power (P rad) on JET assumes axisymmetry, since ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Pre-conceptual design of the fixed mirrors for the DEMO Electron Cyclotron Heating antenna

Timothy Goodman, Jean-Philippe Hogge, René Chavan, Avelino Mas Sanchez, Anastasia Xydou, Cinta Lucia Marraco Borderas, Daniel Birlan, Humberto Torreblanca Quiroz, Marc Noël, Arnaud Clément

The M1 mirrors are part of the in -vessel quasi -optical Electron Cyclotron beam propagation system of the DEMO nuclear fusion reactor. These four mirrors are all non -movable and with a plane reflecting surface. Based on their functionality they are divid ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Locked mode detection during error field identification studies

Olivier Sauter

At the beginning of a machine operation, an assessment of the intrinsic error fields, spurious magnetic field perturbations which can affect plasma dynamics, is often carried out by executing the compass scan method [Scoville J.T. et al. Nucl. Fusion 43 25 ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Every data structure deserves lock-free memory reclamation

Nachshon Cohen

Memory-management support for lock-free data structures is well known to be a tough problem. Recent work has successfully reduced the overhead of such schemes. However, applying memory-management support to a data structure remains complex and, in many cas ...

2018

Realistic multi-machine tokamak profile simulations and numerical ramp-down optimization using the RAPTOR code

Anna Teplukhina

Predictive modelling of plasma profiles is an essential part of ongoing research in tokamak plasmas, required for a successful realization of future fusion reactors. This thesis focuses on upgrading the RAPTOR code to extend the area of its applicability f ...

EPFL2018

Studies on EU-DEMO 3D coils requirements and conceptual design for error field correction and plasma control

Pierluigi Bruzzone

This work presents the initial studies on the requirements for the design of 3D coils on EU-DEMO. The use of 3D coils in present machines includes two main purposes: the first one is the Error Field Correction (EFC). The EFC aims at minimizing the intrinsi ...

Elsevier Science Sa2023

Scaling of the geodesic acoustic mode amplitude 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

This work aims at establishing the parameter space for the existence of geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) on JET as well as investigating their driving and damping mechanisms predicted by different theoretical models. This was achieved using an experimental d ...

2018

Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence and zonal flows driven by steep profile gradients using a delta-f approach with an evolving background Maxwellian

Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Alberto Bottino, Ben McMillan, Moahan Murugappan

Long global gyrokinetic turbulence simulations are particularly challenging in situations where the system deviates strongly from its initial state and when fluctuation levels are high, for example, in strong gradient regions. For particle-in-cell simulati ...

2022

Integration of Perimeter Control and Route Guidance in Large-scale Urban Networks via Model Predictive Control

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Isik Ilber Sirmatel

Traffic congestion is a substantial problem plaguing modern society. Researchers and practitioners working on transportation systems turn to methods from automatic control to decrease congestion and improve urban mobility. Considering the sheer physical si ...

2017

First-Principles Density Limit Scaling in Tokamaks Based on Edge Turbulent Transport and Implications for ITER

Olivier Sauter, Alessandro Pau, Paolo Ricci, Maurizio Giacomin

A first-principles scaling law, based on turbulent transport considerations, and a multimachine database of density limit discharges from the ASDEX Upgrade, JET, and TCV tokamaks, show that the increase of the boundary turbulent transport with the plasma c ...

2022

Poloidal asymmetry in the narrow heat flux feature in the TCV scrape-off layer

Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Jan Horacek, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Federico Nespoli, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Federico David Halpern, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui

Heat flux profiles inferred from a reciprocating probe at the outer midplane of the TCV tokamak during inner wall limited discharges feature radial fall-off lengths that shorten near the last closed flux surface (LCFS) consistent with the so-called narrow ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2017

A 1.5D fluid-Monte Carlo model of a hydrogen helicon plasma

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier, Riccardo Agnello

Helicon plasma sources operating with hydrogen or deuterium might be attractive for fusion applications due to their higher power efficiency compared to inductive radiofrequency plasma sources. In recent years, the resonant antenna ion device (RAID) has be ...

2022

Sensor Fault Tolerance in Output Feedback Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

Colin Neil Jones, Andrea Alessandretti

This paper presents an active output feedback fault-tolerant model predictive control (MPC) scheme for systems with sensor faults. The proposed control scheme actively steers the system in order to prevent loss of observability caused by a sensor fault. To ...

Ieee2016

Linear and nonlinear excitation of TAE modes by external electromagnetic perturbations using ORB5

Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Emmanuel Lanti, Peter François Tony Donnel, Mohsen Sadr

The excitation of toroidicity-induced Alfven eigenmodes (TAEs) using prescribed external electromagnetic perturbations (hereafter 'antenna') acting on a confined toroidal plasma, as well as its nonlinear couplings to other modes in the system, is studied. ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Stability properties of a projector-splitting scheme for dynamical low rank approximation of random parabolic equations

Fabio Nobile, Eva Vidlicková, Yoshihito Kazashi

We consider the Dynamical Low Rank (DLR) approximation of random parabolic equations and propose a class of fully discrete numerical schemes. Similarly to the continuous DLR approximation, our schemes are shown to satisfy a discrete variational formulation ...

Springer2021

On lattice codes for Gaussian interference channels

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Jingge Zhu

The usefulness of lattice codes is investigated for two-user Gaussian interference channels (IC). A coding scheme based on the compute-and-forward technique is shown to achieve the capacity region of the Gaussian IC under strong interference. The proposed ...

2015

Secure transmission using an untrusted relay with scaled compute-and-forward

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Jasper Goseling

A two-hop channel is considered, in which the source wants to send information to the destination while keeping the information confidential from the relay. A novel lattice chain and compute-and-forward based scheme is proposed in which the destination pro ...

IEEE2015