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Development of real-time plasma analysis and control algorithms for the TCV tokamak using SIMULINK

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Lucia Isabel Federspiel, Alessandro Bortolon, Andreas Pitzschke, James Paley, Francesco Piras, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Wouter Vijvers, Hoang Bao Le

One of the key features of the new digital plasma control system installed on the TCV tokamak is the possibility to rapidly design, test and deploy real-time algorithms. With this flexibility the new control system has been used for a large number of new e ...

Elsevier2013

Design optimization of the Upper Steering Mirror Assembly (USMA) for ITER ECHUL in view of disruptive events

René Chavan, Timothy Goodman, Matteo Vagnoni, Anastasia Xydou

Four Electron Cyclotron Heating Upper Launchers (ECHUL) will be used at ITER to counteract magneto-hydrodynamic plasma instabilities by targeting them with up to 20 MW of mm-wave power at 170 GHz. The millimeter waves are guided through a set of fixed mirr ...

Elsevier2021

Fast seeding of NTMs by sawtooth crashes in TCV and their preemption using ECRH

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Antoine Pochelon, Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa

Many tokamaks have observed that sawteeth of sufficient duration may trigger neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs) that lead to plasma performance degradation. In this paper, TCV's ability to accurately control the period of individual sawteeth is exploited, u ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

Tests and developments of a long-pulse high-power 170 GHz absorbing matched load

Stefano Alberti, Damien Fasel, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Francesca Maria Poli, Francisco Sanchez, Ioannis Pagonakis

The future EC systems will consist of several gyrotron sources providing MW-level millimeter wave power at a frequency around or above 170 GHz. The development of matched loads is necessary to test the new sources, the components for the transmission lines ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Design and Numerical Analyses of the M4 Steering Mirrors for the ITER Electron Cyclotron Heating Upper Launcher

René Chavan, Timothy Goodman, Avelino Mas Sanchez, Phillip Miguel Santos Silva, Matteo Vagnoni

Four electron cyclotron heating upper launchers (ECHULs) will be used at ITER to counteract magnetohydrodynamic plasma instabilities by targeting them with up to 24 MW of mm-wave power at 170 GHz. This mm-wave power is injected through eight ex-vessel (EV) ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Real-time control of the period of individual ELMs by EC power on TCV

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Jonathan Rossel, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici

The period of individual type-I edge-localized modes (ELMs) in TCV H-mode plasmas is controlled by real-time controlled application of electron cyclotron (EC) power close to the plasma pedestal. An ELM pacing algorithm, closely related to sawtooth pacing [ ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

Plasma dynamics with second and third-harmonic ECRH and access to quasi-stationary ELM-free H-mode on TCV

Gilles Arnoux, Patrick Blanchard, Stefano Alberti, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Henri Weisen, Stefano Coda, Andrea Scarabosio, Laurie Porte, Alessandro Bortolon, Mikhail Maslov

Intense electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) and electron cyclotron current drive (ECCD) are employed on the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) both in second- and third-harmonic X-mode (X2 and X3). The plasma behaviour under such conditions is ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2007

Modulation of electron transport during Swing ECCD discharges in TCV

Stefano Alberti, Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Costanza Zucca

Generation of a swing electron cyclotron current drive (swing ECCD), i.e. driving alternated, symmetric, positive or negative local ECCD, during a single discharge and at constant total input EC power, was performed at the Tokamak a Configuration Variable ...

IOP2009

Megawatt power generation of the dual-frequency gyrotron for TCV at 84 and 126 GHz, in long pulses

Stefano Alberti, Damien Fasel, Timothy Goodman, Blaise Marlétaz, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Ugo Siravo, Christian Moura, Jérémie Dubray, Ioannis Pagonakis, Jonathan Sylvain Masur, Matthieu Toussaint, Jérémy Genoud

In the frame of the TCV Tokamak upgrade, two 84/126 GHz/2 s dual frequency gyrotrons designed by SPC and KIT and manufactured by THALES will be added to the existing EC-System. The first unit has been delivered to EPFL-SPC and tested. In the commissioning ...

2020

Rapid electron internal transport barrier formation during magnetic shear reversal in fully non-inductive TCV discharges

Timothy Goodman, Antoine Pochelon, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Petri Nikkola, Yann Camenen, Emiliano Fable, Costanza Zucca

The rapid formation of an electron internal transport barrier (eITB) is observed during a slow evolution (similar or equal to 200 ms) from a centrally peaked to a hollow current density profile, while all external actuators remain constant. The time consta ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2005

Infrared Measurements of the RF Output of 170-GHz/2-MW Coaxial Cavity Gyrotron and Its Phase Retrieval Analysis

Stefano Alberti, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Philippe Hogge

We report the experimental results of the infrared measurements of output RF beam of the European 2-MW 170-GHz coaxial cavity gyrotron for ITER. The output beam profile is measured by the infrared thermographic technique using an infrared camera and a targ ...

2009

High-efficiency, long-pulse operation of MW-level dual-frequency gyrotron, 84/126GHz, for the TCV Tokamak

Stefano Alberti, Damien Fasel, Timothy Goodman, Pierre-François Isoz, Pierre Lavanchy, Blaise Marlétaz, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray, Jonathan Sylvain Masur, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Matthieu Toussaint, Jérémy Genoud

The first unit of the dual-frequency gyrotron, 84-126GHz/lMW/2s, for the upgrade of the TCV ECH system has been delivered and is presently being commissioned. During a first phase, long-pulse operation (TRF>0.5s) has been achieved and powers in excess of 0 ...

IEEE2019

On recent results in the modelling of neoclassical-tearing-mode stabilization via electron cyclotron current drive and their impact on the design of the upper EC launcher for ITER

Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter

Electron cyclotron wave beams injected from a launcher placed in the upper part of the vessel will be used in ITER to control MHD instabilities, in particular neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs). Simplified NTM stabilization criteria have been used in the pa ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2015

Progress on the upgrade of the TCV EC-system with two 1MW dual-frequency gyrotrons

Stefano Alberti, Timothy Goodman, Minh Quang Tran, Trach-Minh Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Ioannis Pagonakis, Jérémy Genoud

The upgrade of the electron cyclotron (EC) system of the TCV tokamak has entered in its realization phase. The MW-class dual-frequency gyrotron design (84 or 126GHz/2s), based on the 140GHz W7-X gyrotron, is finalized and a contract for the manufacturing o ...

IEEE2016

Edge-localized mode control by electron cyclotron waves in a tokamak plasma

Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Jonathan Rossel, Duccio Testa, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici

Electron cyclotron resonance heating is applied to the edge of a high-confinement (H-mode) plasma featuring type I edge-localized modes (ELMs) in the TCV tokamak. As the deposition location is shifted gradually in a highly controlled manner towards the pla ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2012

Studies of high frequency hot ion instabilities by means of correlation ECE on Tore Supra

Timothy Goodman, Henri Weisen

High frequency (> 100 kHz) modes have been observed for the first time in combined LHCD and ICR-heated minority H (D) plasmas on Tore Supra by means of a correlation ECE diagnostic and by fluctuation reflectometers. These modes have been identified as the ...

2006

Progress on the ITER H&D EC Upper Launcher Steering-Mirror Control System

René Chavan, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Daniel Landis, Robert Bertizzolo, Francisco Sanchez, Frédéric Dolizy, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici

The ITER Heating and Current Drive Upper Launcher (H&CD EC UL) uses a pneumomechanical steering-mirror assembly (SMA) to steer the RF beams for their deposition in the appropriate location in the plasma to control magnetohydrodynamic activity (neoclassical ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2010

Frontiers in the Application of RF Vacuum Electronics

Timothy Goodman

The application of radio frequency (RF) vacuum electronics for the betterment of the human condition began soon after the invention of the first vacuum tubes in the 1920s and has not stopped since. Today, microwave vacuum devices are powering important app ...

2023

High density experiments in TCV ohmically heated and L-mode plasmas

Roland Behn, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Antoine Pochelon, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Benoît Labit

Recent experiments have been performed on the Tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) to investigate the confinement properties of high density plasmas and the mechanism behind the density limit. In a limiter configuration with plasma elongation kappa = 1.3 ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Ion-Acoustic Turbulence in ECCD-driven TCV plasmas

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Christian Schlatter, Alexander Karpushov

2007