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Effect of pool confinement on pressures around a block impacted by plunging aerated jets

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Divertor turbulence characterisation using Gas Puff Imaging in the TCV tokamak

Towards practical reinforcement learning for tokamak magnetic control

NBI optimization on SMART and implications for scenario development

Nonlinear simulation of plasma turbulence using a gyrokinetic moment-based approach

Progress in the development of the ITER baseline scenario in TCV

Parallel flows as a key component to interpret Super-X divertor experiments

Study of fast-ion-driven toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes impacting on the global confinement in TCV L-mode plasmas

3D Characterisation of Turbulent Plasma Filaments Using Gas Puff Imaging in the Tokamak à Configuration Variable

Performance assessment of a tightly baffled, long-legged divertor configuration in TCV with SOLPS-ITER

Ultra long turbulent eddies, magnetic topology, and the triggering of internal transport barriers in tokamaks

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

Impact of the turbulence wavenumber spectrum and probing beam geometry on Doppler reflectometry perpendicular velocity measurements

How accurate are flux-tube (local) gyrokinetic codes in modeling energetic particle effects on core turbulence?

Spectroscopic characterisation of TCV divertor towards a detached regime

Plasma sputtering of biased electrodes in an oblique magnetic field

Tracking blobs in the turbulent edge plasma of a tokamak fusion device

Experimental confirmation of efficient island divertor operation and successful neoclassical transport optimization in Wendelstein 7-X

Improved heat and particle flux mitigation in high core confinement, baffled, alternative divertor configurations in the TCV tokamak