Publications associées à Plasma shaping effects on tokamak scrape-off layer turbulence

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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

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

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

Ambipolar diffusion and the mass-to-flux ratio in a turbulent collapsing cloud

Aris Evangelos Tritsis

Context. The formation of stars is governed by the intricate interplay of nonideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects, gravity, and turbulence. Computational challenges have hindered a comprehensive 3D exploration of this interplay, posing a longstanding ch ...

2025

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

Accurate Implementation of Rotating Magneto-Hydrodynamics in a Channel Geometry Using an Influence Matrix Method

Tobias Schneider

We numerically study wall-bounded convectively driven magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) flows subject to rotation in a Cartesian periodic channel. For the accurate treatment of the rotating MHD equations, we develop a pseudo-spectral simulation code with accurate ...

MDPI AG2025

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

Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Paolo Ricci, António João Caeiro Heitor Coelho, Zeno Tecchiolli

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 ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Full-F turbulent simulation in a linear plasma device using a gyro-moment approach

Paolo Ricci, Baptiste Jimmy Frei

Simulations of plasma turbulence in a linear plasma device configuration are presented. These simulations are based on a simplified version of the gyrokinetic (GK) model proposed by Frei et al. [J. Plasma Phys. 86, 905860205 (2020)], where the full-F distr ...

Aip Publishing2024

Benign termination of runaway electron beams on ASDEX Upgrade and TCV

Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Joan Decker, Umar Sheikh, Jean Arthur Cazabonne, Claudia Colandrea, Luke Simons

This paper discusses the development of a benign termination scenario for runaway electron (RE) beams on ASDEX Upgrade and TCV. A systematic study revealed that a low electron density (n e) companion plasma was required to achieve a large MHD instability, ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Parallel flows as a key component to interpret Super-X divertor experiments

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Davide Galassi, Lorenzo Martinelli, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Guang-Yu Sun, Luke Simons, Massimo Carpita, Artur Perek, Emanuel Paul Huett

The Super-X Divertor (SXD) is an alternative divertor configuration leveraging total flux expansion at the Outer Strike Point (OSP). While the extended 2-Point Model (2PM) predicts facilitated detachment access and control in the SXD configuration, these a ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Inter-discharge optimization for fast, reliable access to ASDEX Upgrade advanced tokamak scenario

Olivier Sauter, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Simon Van Mulders, Cassandre Ekta Contré

Rapid inter-discharge simulation and optimization using the RAPTOR code have allowed the development of a reliable and reproducible early heating strategy for an advanced tokamak (AT) scenario on ASDEX Upgrade. Solving for electron heat and current diffusi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

The time-domain Cartesian multipole expansion of electromagnetic fields

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Nicolas Mora Parra, Elias Per Joachim Le Boudec, Emanuela Radici

Time-domain solutions of Maxwell’s equations in homogeneous and isotropic media are paramount to studying transient or broadband phenomena. However, analytical solutions are generally unavailable for practical applications, while numerical solutions are co ...

Nature Publishing Group2024

Towards practical reinforcement learning for tokamak magnetic control

Jonas Buchli, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Cristian Galperti

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising results for real-time control systems, including the domain of plasma magnetic control. However, there are still significant drawbacks compared to traditional feedback control approaches for magnetic confinem ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

SPEEDING UP KRYLOV SUBSPACE METHODS FOR COMPUTING f(A)b VIA RANDOMIZATION

Daniel Kressner, Alice Cortinovis

This work is concerned with the computation of the action of a matrix function f(A), such as the matrix exponential or the matrix square root, on a vector b. For a general matrix A, this can be done by computing the compression of A onto a suitable Krylov ...

Siam Publications2024

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

FENNECS: a novel particle-in-cell code for simulating the formation of magnetized non-neutral plasmas trapped by electrodes of complex geometries

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Jérémy Genoud, Guillaume Michel Le Bars, Francesco Romano

This paper presents the new 2D electrostatic particle -in -cell code FENNECS developed to study the formation of magnetized non -neutral plasmas in geometries with azimuthal symmetry. This code has been developed in the domain of gyrotron electron gun desi ...

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

Modelling of energetic particle drive and damping effects on TAEs in AUG experiment with ECCD

Alexander Karpushov

The impact of electron cyclotron current drive (ECCD)-driven current on toroidicity-induced Alfven eigenmodes (TAEs) in experiments on the AUG tokamak is investigated numerically. The dynamical evolution of the plasma profiles and equilibria are modelled w ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Global fluid simulations of plasma turbulence in stellarators

António João Caeiro Heitor Coelho

In order to cope with the decarbonization challenge faced by many countries, fusion is one of the few alternatives to fossil fuels for the production of electricity. Two devices invented in the middle of the previous century have emerged as the most promis ...

EPFL2024