Publications associées à Progress in Pedestal and Edge Physics: Chapter 3 of the Special Issue: on the Path to Tokamak Burning Plasma Operation

Publications associées (10)

Conceptual design of ELM control coils for the TCABR tokamak

An upgrade of the Tokamak à Chauffage Alfvén Brésilien (TCABR) is being designed to make it capable of creating a well controlled environment where the impact of resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) fields on edge localised modes can be addressed over a wi ...

Elsevier2025

Experimental investigation of the radial structure of energetic particle driven GAM in TCV

Duccio Testa, Alexander Karpushov, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Umar Sheikh, Luke Simons, Jesús Poley Sanjuán, Anton Jansen Van Vuuren

High amplitude energetic particle geodesic acoustic mode (EGAM) oscillations driven by Neutral Beam (NBI) injected in the direction counter to the toroidal plasma current are observed in the TCV tokamak. The modes appear at frequencies close to the geodesi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Design of a novel plasma shape controller for the TCV tokamak

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Cristian Galperti, Adriano Mele, Alessandro Tenaglia

Tokamaks are experimental nuclear fusion reactors that exploit magnetic-field-generating coils to confine a plasma. In these devices, plasma shape control is crucial to achieving high performance and pursuing challenging scientific objectives. With its lar ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Overview of ASDEX upgrade results in view of ITER and DEMO

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

Experiments on ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) in 2021 and 2022 have addressed a number of critical issues for ITER and EU DEMO. A major objective of the AUG programme is to shed light on the underlying physics of confinement, stability, and plasma exhaust in order to ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Simplified and Flexible Coils for Stellarators using Single-Stage Optimization

Joaquim Loizu Cisquella

Single-stage optimization, also known as combined plasma-coil algorithms or direct coil optimization, has recently emerged as a possible method to expedite the design of stellarator devices by including, in a single step, confinement, stability, and engine ...

2024

Expulsion of runaway electrons using ECRH in the TCV tokamak

Ewout Koen L. Devlaminck, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Laurie Porte, Umar Sheikh, Joan Decker, Cristian Sommariva, Luke Simons, Benjamin Alexandre Vincent, Umesh Kumar, Arsène Stéphane Tema Biwole, Jean Arthur Cazabonne

Runaway electrons (REs) are a concern for tokamak fusion reactors from discharge startup to termination. A sudden localized loss of a multi-megaampere RE beam can inflict severe damage to the first wall. Should a disruption occur, the existence of a RE see ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

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

Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino

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

Performance review of the joints for the ITER poloidal field coils

Kamil Sedlák, Hugues Marie Alain Bajas

For large scale magnets wound with cable-in-conduit conductors, the safe operation of the joints is of paramount importance to guarantee adequate reliability and stability margin of the whole magnet. For this reason, during the R & D activities undertaken ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Stellarator optimization for nested magnetic surfaces at finite β and toroidal current

Jonathan Graves, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Antoine Baillod

Good magnetic surfaces, as opposed to magnetic islands and chaotic field lines, are generally desirable for stellarators. In previous work, Landreman et al. [Phys. of Plasmas 28, 092505 (2021)] showed that equilibria computed by the Stepped-Pressure Equili ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2022

Development and first operation of a cavity ring down spectroscopy diagnostic in the negative ion source SPIDER

Riccardo Agnello

The neutral beam injectors of the ITER experiment will rely on negative ion sources to produce 16.7 MW beams of H/D particles accelerated at 1 MeV. The prototype of these sources was built and is currently operated in the SPIDER (Source for the Production ...

2021