The neoclassical tearing modes (NTM) increase the effective heat and particle radial transport inside the plasma, leading to a flattening of the electron and ion temperature and density profiles at a given location depending on the safety factor q rational ...

2017

Profile control simulations and experiments on TCV: a controller test environment and results using a model-based predictive controller

Timothy Goodman, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Sun Hee Kim, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Doohyun Kim, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Anna Teplukhina, Cristian Galperti, Mengdi Kong, Francesco Carpanese, Donghyun Kim

The successful performance of a model predictive profile controller is demonstrated in simulations and experiments on the TCV tokamak, employing a profile controller test environment. Stable high-performance tokamak operation in hybrid and advanced plasma ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Overview of ASDEX Upgrade results

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alberto Bottino, Marco Wischmeier, Andrea Scarabosio, Hartmut Zohm, Laurie Porte, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Emiliano Fable, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Dávid Wágner, Doohyun Kim, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Emanuele Poli, Nicola Vianello, Giovanni Tardini, Donghyun Kim, Cristian Sommariva, Otto Asunta, Haomin Sun, Xiao Wang, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

The ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) programme is directed towards physics input to critical elements of the ITER design and the preparation of ITER operation, as well as addressing physics issues for a future DEMO design. Since 2015, AUG is equipped with a new pair of ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Overview of progress in European medium sized tokamaks towards an integrated plasma-edge/wall solution

Patrick Blanchard, Roland Behn, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Emiliano Fable, Javier García Hernández, Ben McMillan, Marc Gruber, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Dávid Wágner, Attila Bencze, Doohyun Kim, Wouter Vijvers, Hoang Bao Le, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Heinz Mueller, Anna Teplukhina, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, , , , , , , , ,

Simulation of profile evolution from ramp-up to ramp-down and optimization of tokamak plasma termination with the RAPTOR code

Olivier Sauter, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Doohyun Kim, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Anna Teplukhina, Donghyun Kim

The present work demonstrates the capabilities of the transport code RAPTOR as a fast and reliable simulator of plasma profiles for the entire plasma discharge, i.e. from ramp-up to ramp-down. This code focuses, at this stage, on the simulation of electron ...

2017

A White Paper on keV sterile neutrino Dark Matter

Laurent Gastaldo, Igor Tkachev, Alexey Boyarsky, Oleg Ruchayskiy, Julien Lesgourgues, Marco Drewes, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Jan Hamann, Jonathan Leon Wolf

We present a comprehensive review of keV-scale sterile neutrino Dark Matter, collecting views and insights from all disciplines involved - cosmology, astrophysics, nuclear, and particle physics - in each case viewed from both theoretical and experimental/o ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

Pedestal properties of H-modes with negative triangularity using the EPED-CH model

Olivier Sauter, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle

The EPED model has been designed to predict the pedestal height and width from a minimal set of parameters and using the stability of the pedestal region for global MHD peeling-ballooning (P-B) modes as well as local kinetic ballooning modes (KBMs). This a ...

IOPscience2017

Overview of the TCV tokamak program: scientific progress and facility upgrades

Patrick Blanchard, Stefano Alberti, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Xavier Llobet, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Minh Quang Tran, Henri Weisen, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Stefano Coda, Christian Schlatter, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Rémy Jacquier, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Fabio Riva, Wouter Vijvers, Josef Kamleitner, Hoang Bao Le, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Joyeeta Sinha, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Oulfa Chellaï, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Neutral beam heating on the TCV tokamak

René Chavan, Basil Duval, Damien Fasel, Ambrogio Fasoli, Pierre Lavanchy, Xavier Llobet, Blaise Marlétaz, Philippe Marmillod, Yves Martin, Albert Perez, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Ugo Siravo, Alexander Karpushov, Frédéric Dolizy, Matthieu Toussaint, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle

2017

Simple predictive electron transport models applied to sawtoothing plasmas

Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Doohyun Kim, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle

In this work, we introduce two simple transport models to evaluate the time evolution of electron temperature and density profiles during sawtooth cycles (i.e. over a sawtooth period time-scale). Since the aim of these simulations is to estimate reliable p ...

Plasma Physics and Controled Fusion2016

Axisymmetric Tokamak Equilibria computed with a Predefined Safety Factor Profile as CHEASE input

Olivier Sauter, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle

The CHEASE code, which has been developed at the Swiss Plasma Center, generates an accurate reconstruction of toroidal magnetohydrodynamics equilibria by numerically solving the Grad-Shafranov equation. Having demonstrated its ability to achieve good conve ...

2016

On the non-stiffness of edge transport in L-mode tokamak plasmas

Stephan Brunner, Roland Behn, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alexander Karpushov, Yann Camenen, Lucia Isabel Federspiel, Doohyun Kim, Gabriele Merlo, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Donghyun Kim

Transport analyses using first-principle turbulence codes and 11/2-D transport codes usually study radial transport properties between the tokamak plasma magnetic axis and a normalized minor radius around 0.8. In this region, heat transport shows significa ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Science and technology research and development in support to ITER and the Broader Approach at CEA

Jonathan Bryan Lister, Vincent Martin, Nicolas Mellet, Louis Nicolas, Xiaoxia Bai, Javier García Hernández, Alexis Berne, Fang Liu, Daniel Keller, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Jonathan Bastien Cottet, Joan Decker, Yi Zhang, Yiming Li, Hui Wang

In parallel to the direct contribution to the procurement phase of ITER and Broader Approach, CEA has initiated research & development programmes, accompanied by experiments together with a significant modelling effort, aimed at ensuring robust operation, ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

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Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

Matteo Fontana

Umar Sheikh

Cristian Galperti

Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh

Fusion power may be seen as the energy of the future in the sense that it composes a potentially clean, cheap and unlimited power source that would reduce the worldwide dependency on non-renewable energies. Nevertheless, while nowadays the fusion reaction ...

IEEE2018

Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh

Nicola Vianello

Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo

Integrating the plasma core performance with an edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) that leads to tolerable heat and particle loads on the wall is a major challenge. The new European medium size tokamak task force (EU-MST) coordinates research on ASDEX Upgrade ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

Umar Sheikh

Cristian Galperti

Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh

IOP Publishing Ltd2017