Magnetic field configurational study on a helicon-based plasma source for future neutral beam systems

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In magnetic fusion devices, error field (EF) sources, spurious magnetic field perturbations, need to be identified and corrected for safe and stable (disruption-free) tokamak operation. Within Work Package Tokamak Exploitation RT04, a series of studies hav ...

The performance of magnetic confinement fusion devices, such as tokamaks, is strongly correlated to the phenomena that occur in the boundary region of the plasma core that faces the wall of the device. The dominant cross-field transport mechanisms from the ...

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Under the auspices of EUROfusion, the ITER baseline (IBL) scenario has been jointly investigated on AUG and TCV in the past years and this paper reports on the developments on TCV. It is found that the performance of TCV IBL is mainly limited by (neoclassi ...

The implementation of three-dimensional magnetic fields, such as the ones of stellarators, in the GBS code (Ricci et al 2012 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion54 124047; Giacomin et al 2022 J. Comput. Phys.464 111294) is presented, and simulation results are dis ...

Magnetic field configurational study on a helicon-based plasma source for future neutral beam systems

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Introduction and Overview: Chapter 1 of the Special Issue: on the Path to Tokamak Burning Plasma Operation

Transport and confinement physics Chapter 2 of the special issue: on the path to tokamak burning plasma operation

Performance of the First 80-kA HTS CICC for High-Field Application in Future Fusion Reactors

Integrated operation scenarios: Chapter 6 of the special issue: on the path to tokamak burning plasma operation

Environmental implications of solid oxide fuel cell system for hydrogen sustainability

Inverse Geometric Locomotion

Configuring a Liquid State High-entropy Metal Alloy Electrocatalyst

Milestone in predicting core plasma turbulence: successful multi-channel validation of the gyrokinetic code GENE

Realising efficient conversion of nitrogen-containing plastic waste with ceria-based catalysts

Re-design of EU DEMO with a low aspect ratio

Global fluid simulations of plasma turbulence in stellarators

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

Long plasma duration operation analyses with an international multi-machine (tokamaks and stellarators) database

Error field detection and correction studies towards ITER operation

Divertor turbulence characterisation using Gas Puff Imaging in the TCV tokamak

Towards practical reinforcement learning for tokamak magnetic control

The magnet feeders for the European DEMO fusion reactor: Conceptual design and recent advances

Experimental study and interpretative modelling of the Power Exhaust in Configurations with Multiple X-Points in TCV

Progress in the development of the ITER baseline scenario in TCV

Global fluid simulation of plasma turbulence in stellarators with the GBS code