Publications de Mario Ludovico Podesta

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Numerical studies on saturated kink and sawtooth induced fast ion transport in JET ITER-like plasmas

This presentation examines the energetic particle transport induced by saturated kink modes and sawtooth crashes in JET deuterium plasmas. It is known that kink mode-resonant transport and phase-space redistribution from sawtooth crashes can drive strong f ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Simulating energetic particle losses in JET plasmas with a reverse integration biasing scheme

Mario Ludovico Podesta, Matteo Vallar

An integrated energetic particle transport model has been constructed in JET plasmas constrained by experimental fast ion loss measurements. The model incorporates a synthetic fast ion loss detector identical to JET's thin-foil Faraday cup fast ion loss de ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Plasma production and transport in a simple magnetised toroidal plasma

Mario Ludovico Podesta

This Thesis addresses questions related to transport phenomena and the plasma production mechanisms by injection of microwaves in the electron-cyclotron frequency range in the simple magnetised toroidal plasma TORPEX. The second subject is investigated in ...

EPFL2007

First measurements of velocity-space resolved intra-ELM fast-ion losses on the TCV tokamak

Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Benoît Labit, Alexander Karpushov, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Jesús Poley Sanjuán, Umesh Kumar

Edge Localised Modes (ELMs) induced fast-ion losses have been characterised in the energy, E, and pitch, λ = v ∥ / v , space using a unique Fast Ion Loss Detector (FILD) on the tokamak à configuration variable. The FILD is equipped with a 128 Avalanche Pho ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Electron trapping in gyrotron electron guns: Validation of the FENNECS code with the T-REX experiment

Guillaume Michel Le Bars, Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Jérémy Genoud, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Francesco Romano, Pierrick Paul Louis Giroud-Garampon

Gyrotrons are essential devices for the development of nuclear fusion, but their design and reliable operation still present numerous challenges. In particular, certain gyrotrons encounter issues related to trapped electron clouds in the magnetron injectio ...

AIP Publishing2025

Development of a reduced model for energetic particle transport by sawteeth in tokamaks

Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Anna Teplukhina, Matteo Vallar, Jiangyan Yang

The sawtooth instability is known for inducing transport and loss of energetic particles (EPs), and for generating seed magnetic islands that can trigger tearing modes. Both effects degrade the overall plasma performance. Several theories and numerical mod ...

2022

Statistical properties of electrostatic turbulence in toroidal magnetized plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Jan Horacek, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Gennady Plyushchev, Davoud Iraji

A unique parabolic relation is observed to link skewness and kurtosis of density fluctuation signals, measured over the whole cross-section of the simple toroidal device TORPEX for a broad range of experimental conditions. This relationship is also valid f ...

2007

NBI optimization on SMART and implications for scenario development

Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli

The SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak (SMART) under commissioning at the University of Seville, Spain, aims to explore confinement properties and possible advantages in confinement for compact/spherical tokamaks operating at negative vs. positive triangularity. T ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

DIII-D research towards establishing the scientific basis for future fusion reactors

Yi Wang, Olivier Sauter, Richard Pitts, Sun Hee Kim, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Terunobu Akiyama, Federico David Halpern, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Jeffrey Huang, Alessandro Bortolon, Alessandro Marinoni, Gabriele Merlo, Dongbin Zhao, Fang Liu, Zhixian Yan, Stefan Müller, Wei Wu, Kyungjin Kim, Tzu-Hsien Shen, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Xi Chen, Gang Yu, Xin Yang, Shouguo Wang, Luc Nicolas Xuan Zeng, Sung Chul Park, Fang Wang

DIII-D research is addressing critical challenges in preparation for ITER and the next generation of fusion devices through focusing on plasma physics fundamentals that underpin key fusion goals, understanding the interaction of disparate core and boundary ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Overview of MAST results

Jonathan Graves, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Jan Horacek, Ben McMillan, Ricardo Pérez Suárez

The Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST) programme is strongly focused on addressing key physics issues in preparation for operation of ITER as well as providing solutions for DEMO design choices. In this regard, MAST has provided key results in understand ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Electrostatic turbulence and transport in a simple magnetized plasma

Ambrogio Fasoli, Benoît Labit, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Gennady Plyushchev

Gradient driven electrostatic instabilities are investigated in TORPEX [A. Fasoli, B. Labit, M. McGrath, S. H. Muller, M. Podesta, and F. M. Poli, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 48, 119 (2003)], a toroidal device (R=1 m, a=0.2 m) in which plasmas are produced by mic ...

2006

Electrostatic instabilities, turbulence and fast ion interactions in the TORPEX device

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Gennady Plyushchev, Kyle Gustafson, Stefan Müller, Lucia Isabel Federspiel, Davoud Iraji, Alice Burckel

Electrostatic turbulence, related structures and their effect on particle, heat and toroidal momentum transport are investigated in TORPEX simple magnetized plasmas using high-resolution diagnostics, control parameters, linear fluid models and nonlinear nu ...

Institute of Physics2010

Universal statistical properties of drift-interchange turbulence in TORPEX plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Gennady Plyushchev

A unique parabolic relation is observed to link skewness and kurtosis of around ten thousand density fluctuation signals, measured over the whole cross section of a toroidal magnetized plasma for a broad range of experimental conditions. All the probabilit ...

2007

Experimental investigation of the radial structure of energetic particle driven GAM in TCV

Duccio Testa, Alexander Karpushov, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Umar Sheikh, Luke Simons, Jesús Poley Sanjuán, Anton Jansen Van Vuuren

High amplitude energetic particle geodesic acoustic mode (EGAM) oscillations driven by Neutral Beam (NBI) injected in the direction counter to the toroidal plasma current are observed in the TCV tokamak. The modes appear at frequencies close to the geodesi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Simultaneous measurements of unstable and stable Alfven eigenmodes in JET

Ambrogio Fasoli, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia

In this paper, we report the novel experimental observation of both unstable and stable toroidicity-induced Alfven eigenmodes (TAEs) measured simultaneously in a JET tokamak plasma. The three-ion-heating scheme (D-DNBI-He-3) is employed to accelerate deute ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Fast ion source and detector for investigating the interaction of turbulence with suprathermal ions in a low temperature toroidal plasma - art. no. 10F503

Yi Zhang, Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Gennady Plyushchev

A specific experimental apparatus consisting of an ion source and a detector for the investigation of the interaction between suprathermal ions and drift-wave turbulence is developed on the toroidal plasma experiment. Due to the low plasma temperature (sim ...

2006

Plasma blobs in a basic toroidal experiment: Origin, dynamics, and induced transport

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Mario Ludovico Podesta

Detaching plasma blobs with very similar properties to tokamaks are observed in the basic toroidal plasma experiment TORPEX [ A. Fasoli et al., Phys. Plasmas 13, 055902 (2006) ]. The blobs originate from the breaking of wave crests of a drift-interchange w ...

American Institute of Physics2007

A novel measurement of marginal Alfven eigenmode stability during high power auxiliary heating in JET

Ambrogio Fasoli, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia

The interaction of Alfven eigenmodes (AEs) and energetic particles is one of many important factors determining the success of future tokamaks. In JET, eight in-vessel antennas were installed to actively probe stable AEs with frequencies ranging 25-250 kHz ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Basic turbulence studies on TORPEX and challenges in the theory-experiment comparison

Ambrogio Fasoli, Benoît Labit, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Gennady Plyushchev

TORPEX [A. Fasoli, B. Labit, M. McGrath, S. H. Muller, M. Podesta, and F. M. Poli, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 48, 119 (2003)] is dedicated to the study of electrostatic instabilities, turbulence, and transport. Plasmas are produced by waves in the electron cyclo ...

2005

Experimental characterization of drift-interchange instabilities in a simple toroidal plasma

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Stephan Brunner, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Gennady Plyushchev

Low frequency electrostatic instabilities are investigated on TORPEX [Fasoli, Labit, McGrath, Muller, Podesta, and Poli, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 48, 119 (2003)], a toroidal device for basic plasma physics experiments with a toroidal magnetic field 100 mT and ...

2006