Publications associées à Anomalous transport of energetic particles in ITER relevant scenarios

Excitation of toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes with counter-current NBI in the TCV tokamak

Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Matteo Vallar, Samuele Mazzi

In TCV, unstable modes excited by resonant interaction between the shear Alfvèn waves in con- tinuum gaps and energetic particles have been observed in scenarios with Neutral Beam Injection (NBI). TCV is a middle-size device (R 0 /a = 0.88/0.25) equipped w ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Nonlinear interaction of Alfvénic instabilities and turbulence via the modification of the equilibrium profiles

Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Xiao Wang

Nonlinear simulations of Alfvén modes (AMs) driven by energetic particles (EPs) in the presence of turbulence are performed with the gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code ORB5. The AMs carry a heat flux, and consequently they nonlinearly modify the plasma temp ...

Cambridge University Press2023

Predictive modeling of Alfvén eigenmode stability in inductive scenarios in JT-60SA

Javier García Hernández, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Matteo Vallar

The JT-60SA device offers unique conditions before ITER for the study of the interaction of energetic particles with plasma waves. With similar dimensions to JET, e.g., a major radius but with a slightly more elongated plasma volume, JT-60SA is used as a h ...

Frontiers Media Sa2023

How accurate are flux-tube (local) gyrokinetic codes in modeling energetic particle effects on core turbulence?

Olivier Sauter, Alberto Bottino, Emanuele Poli

Flux-tube (local) gyrokinetic codes are widely used to simulate drift-wave turbulence in magnetic confinement devices. While a large number of studies show that flux-tube codes provide an excellent approximation for turbulent transport in medium-large devi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

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

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

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

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

A Fast Ion Loss Detector for the TCV Tokamak

Lorenzo Stipani

A Fast Ion Loss Detector (FILD) was designed, assembled, installed and commissioned for TCV. This is a radially positionable, scintillator based detector that provides information on the 2D fast-ion velocity space lost at the probe's location. The collecte ...

EPFL2021

Nonlinear dynamics of energetic-particle driven geodesic acoustic modes in ASDEX Upgrade

Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Emmanuel Lanti, Noé Thomas Elie Ohana, Emanuele Poli

Turbulence in tokamaks generates radially sheared zonal flows. Their oscillatory counterparts, geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs), appear due to the action of the magnetic field curvature. The GAMs can be driven unstable by an anisotropic energetic particle (E ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

Development and optimisation of advanced auxiliary ion heating schemes for 3D fusion plasma devices

Hamish William Patten

The magnetic confinement fusion devices known as the tokamak and the stellarator are progressing towards becoming viable commercial nuclear fusion reactor designs. Both ap- proaches require improvements in the applied heating sources and in the particle an ...

EPFL2019

Gyrokinetic simulations of toroidal Alfven eigenmodes excited by energetic ions and external antennas on the Joint European Torus

Patrick Blanchard, Ambrogio Fasoli, Duccio Testa, Mikhail Maslov, Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia, Ling Zhou

The gyrokinetic toroidal code (GTC) has been used to study toroidal Alfven eigenmodes (TAEs) in high-performance plasmas. Experiments performed at the Joint European Torus (JET), where TAEs were driven by energetic particles arising from neutral beams, ion ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Modification of the Alfven wave spectrum by pellet injection

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Ricardo Lima, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Soo-Jin Moon, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

Alfven eigenmodes driven by energetic particles are routinely observed in tokamak plasmas. These modes consist of poloidal harmonics of shear Alfven waves coupled by inhomogeneity in the magnetic field. Further coupling is introduced by 3D inhomogeneities ...

2019

MHD spectroscopy of JET plasmas with pellets via Alfven eigenmodes

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Robin Humphry-Baker, Stefano Coda, Martinus Gijs, Partha Dutta, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Vlad Trifa, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Sun Hee Kim, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Julio Rodriguez, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Rebecca Hill, Daniel Scott Alessi, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Federico Nespoli, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Hamish William Patten, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Li Shuai, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, , , , , , , ,

Synthetic NPA diagnostic for energetic particles in JET plasmas

Henri Weisen

Neutral particle analysis (NPA) is one of the few methods for diagnosing fast ions inside a plasma by measuring neutral atom fluxes emitted due to charge exchange reactions. The JET tokamak features an NPA diagnostic which measures neutral atom fluxes and ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

The upgraded JET toroidal Alfven eigenmode diagnostic system

Patrick Blanchard, Ambrogio Fasoli, Duccio Testa

The main characteristics of toroidal Alfven eigenmodes (TAEs) have been successfully investigated in JET (Joint European Torus) using the scheme of sweeping-frequency external excitation with tracking of the synchronously-detected resonances. However, due ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Superdiffusive transport in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Paolo Ricci, Kyle Gustafson

In the last few years it has been demonstrated, both by data analysis and by numerical simulations, that the transport of energetic particles in the presence of magnetic turbulence can be superdiffusive rather than normal diffusive (Gaussian). The term ‘su ...

Cambridge University Press2015

Energetic ion dynamics and confinement in 3D saturated MHD configurations

David Pfefferlé

In the following theoretical and numerically oriented work, a number of findings have been assembled. The newly devised VENUS-LEVIS code, designed to accurately solve the motion of energetic particles in the presence of 3D magnetic fields, relies on a non- ...

EPFL2015

Non-perturbative modelling of energetic particle effects on resistive wall mode: Anisotropy and finite orbit width

Jonathan Graves

A non-perturbative magnetohydrodynamic-kinetic hybrid formulation is developed and implemented into the MARS-K code [Liu et al. , Phys. Plasmas 15 , 112503 (2008)] that takes into account the anisotropy and asymmetry [Graves et al. ,Nature Commun. 3 , 624 ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2014

Nonclassical Transport and Particle-Field Coupling: from Laboratory Plasmas to the Solar Wind

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Paolo Ricci, Kyle Gustafson

Understanding transport of thermal and suprathermal particles is a fundamental issue in laboratory, solar-terrestrial, and astrophysical plasmas. For laboratory fusion experiments, confinement of particles and energy is essential for sustaining the plasma ...

Springer2013

Experimental verification of sawtooth control by energetic particles in ion cyclotron resonance heated JET tokamak plasmas

Stefano Coda, Jonathan Graves

Experimental evidence from the JET tokamak is presented supporting the predictions of a recent theory (Graves et al 2009 Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 065005) on sawtooth instability control by toroidally propagating ion cyclotron resonance waves. Novel experimenta ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2010

Microturbulence driven transport of energetic ions in the ITER steady-state scenario

Mattia Albergante

Modelling of microturbulence-driven transport of energetic ions in an ITER steady-state scenario is presented. Results indicate that a significant fraction of the velocity space distribution of alpha particles and deuterium ions can be transported above ne ...

International Atomic Energy Agency2010