Publications associées à Subspace Acceleration for a Sequence of Linear Systems and Application to Plasma Simulation

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

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Benoît Labit, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Mengdi Kong, Simon Van Mulders, Cristian Sommariva, Alessandro Pau

On the basis of several recent breakthroughs in fusion research, many activities have been launched around the world to develop fusion power plants on the fastest possible time scale. In this context, high-fidelity simulations of the plasma behavior on lar ...

2025

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

Basil Duval, Yann Camenen, Mikhail Maslov

Progress in physics understanding and theoretical model development of plasma transport and confinement (TC) in the ITPA TC Topical Group since the publication of the ITER Physics Basis (IPB) document (Doyle et al 2007 Nucl. Fusion 47 S18) was summarized f ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

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

Ambrogio Fasoli

The International Tokamak Physics Activity (ITPA) has developed a comprehensive overview of the results of its coordinated R&D activities in fusion physics and diagnostics implemented during the past two decades with the aim of developing an improved physi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

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

Kamil Sedlák, Hugues Marie Alain Bajas, Mattia Ortino, Jack Richard Greenwood

A promising way to realize controlled nuclear fusion involves the use of magnetic fields to control and confine the hot plasma configuration. This approach requires superconductor magnets operating above 15 T for the next generation of fusion devices. Due ...

Elsevier BV2025

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

Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici

Here we report the progress of the development and optimization of operational scenarios for ITER and beyond, focusing upon baseline, hybrid, and steady-state scenarios since 2007. This includes advancements made by the integrated operation scenarios (IOS) ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Dynamic steady-state coil current allocation for plasma shape control: A study on the TCV tokamak

Stefano Coda, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Adriano Mele

This work addresses the input current allocation problem for the magnetic control system of the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV). Given the available actuators (i.e. poloidal field coils) on the TCV device, this work aims to optimize the input curren ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Data-driven models in fusion exhaust: AI methods and perspectives

Yoeri Renier Johannes Poels

A review is given on the highlights of a scatter-shot approach of developing machine-learning methods and artificial neural networks based fast predictors for the application to fusion exhaust. The aim is to enable and facilitate optimized and improved mod ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Tangentially viewing phase contrast imaging for turbulence measurements in toroidal fusion devices

Stefano Coda

Phase contrast imaging (PCI) is an established and powerful technique for measuring density fluctuations in plasmas and has been successfully applied to several fusion devices. Rooted in a concept first developed for microscopy, PCI belongs to the category ...

2024

Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence in magnetic fusion plasmas using a delta-f PIC scheme with evolving background

Moahan Murugappan

Using the GKEngine code which simulates an electrostatic plasma with adiabatic electron response under a sheared-slab geometry, an attempt at developing a hybrid approach between the delta-f and full-f schemes to describe plasma profiles exhibiting high fl ...

EPFL2024

Predictive power-sharing scaling law in double-null L-mode plasmas

Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Louis Nicolas Stenger, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Brenno Jason Sanzio Peter De Lucca, Kyungtak Lim

The physical mechanisms regulating the power sharing at the outer targets of L-mode double-null (DN) configurations are investigated using nonlinear, flux-driven, three-dimensional two-fluid simulations. Scans of parameters that regulate the turbulent leve ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Validation of GBS plasma turbulence simulation of the TJ-K stellarator

Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Paolo Ricci

We present a validation of a three-dimensional, two-fluid simulation of plasma turbulence in the TJ-K stellarator, a low temperature plasma experiment ideally suited for turbulence measurements. The simulation is carried out by the GBS code, recently adapt ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Integrated modelling of neon impact on JET H-mode core plasmas

Yann Camenen, Michele Marin

Nuclear fusion reactor plasmas will need to exhaust a significant proportion of energy flux through radiative processes, to enable acceptable divertor loads. This can be obtained by line radiation from impurities, injected from the plasma edge. There are h ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Occam's razor on the mechanism of resistive-wall-mode-induced beta limits in diverted tokamaks

Jonathan Graves, Daniele Brunetti

External kink modes, believed to be the drive of the 0-limiting resistive wall mode, are strongly stabilized by the presence of a separatrix. We thus propose a novel mechanism explaining the appearance of long-wavelength global instabilities in free bounda ...

2023

Model-based electron density estimation using multiple diagnostics on TCV

Olivier Sauter, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Cristian Galperti

Estimation of the dynamic evolution of the electron plasma density during a tokamak discharge is crucial since it directly affects the plasma performance, confinement and stability. Therefore it needs to be monitored and controlled. Knowledge of the densit ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

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

Frank Nüesch

The perpendicular propagation velocity of turbulent density fluctuations is an important parameter in fusion plasmas, since sheared plasma flows are crucial for reducing turbulence, and thus an essential input parameter for turbulent transport simulations. ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

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

Gregory Vogel, Eduardo Sanchez, Frank Rüdiger Wagner, Alberto Bottino, Jonathan Graves, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Emiliano Fable, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Attila Bencze, Jieping Zhu, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Antoine Baillod, Nicola Vianello, Mike Machielsen

We present recent highlights from the most recent operation phases of Wendelstein 7-X, the most advanced stellarator in the world. Stable detachment with good particle exhaust, low impurity content, and energy confinement times exceeding 100 ms, have been ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

A phase-contrast-imaging core fluctuation diagnostic and first-principles turbulence modeling for JT-60SA

Stephan Brunner, Stefano Coda, Matthieu Toussaint, Aylwin Iantchenko

A core fluctuation diagnostic based on the phase-contrast imaging (PCI) technique has been designed for the JT-60SA tokamak, with the assistance of a synthetic diagnostic coupled to a gyrokinetic code. Using a tangentially viewing geometry, this system wou ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Approaching detachment in I-mode-response of core confinement and the edge pedestal in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak

Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle

Experiments on nitrogen assisted divertor detachment in the improved energy confinement mode (I-mode) are reported from the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak. When nitrogen is introduced into the divertor and radiation losses cool the divertor plasma down, a loss of c ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Millimeter-wave beam scattering and induced broadening by plasma turbulence in the TCV tokamak

Stefano Alberti, Timothy Goodman, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci

The scattering of millimeter-wave beams from electron density fluctuations and the associated beam broadening are experimentally demonstrated. Using a dedicated setup, instantaneous deflection and (de-)focusing of the beam due to density blobs on the beam ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Moving toward mass-conserving simulations of plasma turbulence and kinetic neutrals in the tokamak boundary with the GBS code

Paolo Ricci

A model for the simulation of the tokamak boundary is described, which is mass-conserving to leading order in rho s / R 0 (where rho s is the ion sound Larmor radius and R-0 is the tokamak major radius at the magnetic axis). The model integrates a three-di ...

2021