Influence of Trapped Thermal Particles on Internal Kink Modes in High-Temperature Tokamaks

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In this PhD thesis we deal with two mathematical problems arising from quantum mechanics. We consider a spinless non relativistic quantum particle whose configuration space is a two dimensional surface S. We also suppose that the particle feels the effect of an homogeneous magnetic field perpendicular to the surface S. In the first case S = R × SL1, the infinite cylinder of circumference L, corresponding to periodic boundary conditions, while in the second one S = R2. In both cases the particle feels the ef

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In the TCV tokamak the sawtooth period and the sawtooth amplitude are observed to depend strongly on the shape of the poloidal plasma cross section. Systematic scans of plasma elongation and triangularity show small sawteeth with short periods at high elongation or low and negative triangularity, and large sawteeth with long periods at low elongation or high triangularity. Additional central electron cyclotron heating power further amplifies the shape dependence of the sawtooth properties. The sawtooth peri

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Influence of Trapped Thermal Particles on Internal Kink Modes in High-Temperature Tokamaks

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Towards the realization on JET of an integrated H-mode scenario for ITER

ITER-relevant H-mode physics at ASDEX upgrade

Global-gyrokinetic study of finite beta effects on linear microinstabilities

Modelling of the electron cyclotron current drive experiments in the TCV tokamak

Measurement of the damping rate of n=1 toroidal Alfven eigenmodes as a function of the neutral beam heating power and plasma beta on JET

Predicted effects of parallel temperature gradients on the overestimation of TCV divertor target Langmuir probe T-e measurements

Advanced high-power gyrotrons

Aspects of two dimensional magnetic Schrödinger operatorsquantum hall systems and magnetic Stark resonances

D-RESP: Dynamically Generated Electrostatic Potential Derived Charges from Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics Simulations

Long-pulse improved central electron confinement in the TCV tokamak with electron cyclotron heating and current drive

Effect of triangular and elongated plasma shape on the sawtooth stability

Magnetohydrodynamics stability of compact stellarators