Publications associées à Overview of ASDEX upgrade results in view of ITER and DEMO

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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

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

Benoît Labit, Umar Sheikh

This paper describes the extensive progress that has been made in the understanding of tokamak pedestal physics since the 2007 publication of 'Progress in the ITER Physics Basis' (Ikeda 2007 Nucl. Fusion 47 E01-S500). It serves as Chapter 3 of the 2025 Nuc ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

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

Numerical study of turbulent eddy self-interaction in tokamaks with low magnetic shear. Part II: Nonlinear simulations

Stephan Brunner, Justin Richard Ball, Arnas Volcokas

Using local nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations and building up on linear results from acompanion paper (Volcokas 2024 Submitted for publication), we demonstrate that turbulenteddies can extend along magnetic field lines for hundreds of poloidal turns in tok ...

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

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

Resistively controlled primordial magnetic turbulence decay

Andrii Neronov

Context. Magnetic fields generated in the early Universe undergo turbulent decay during the radiation-dominated era. The decay is governed by a decay exponent and a decay time. It has been argued that the latter is prolonged by magnetic reconnection, which ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2024

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

Lessons learned after three years of SPIDER operation and the first MITICA integrated tests

Riccardo Agnello, Basile Marie Jacques Pouradier Duteil

ITER envisages the use of two heating neutral beam injectors plus an optional one as part of the auxiliary heating and current drive system, to reach the desired performances during its various phases of operation. The 16.5 MW expected neutral beam power p ...

2023

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

Leidenfrost flows: instabilities and symmetry breakings

François Gallaire

Leidenfrost drops were recently found to host strong dynamics. In the present study, we investigate both experimentally and theoretically the flow structures and stability inside a Leidenfrost water drop as it evaporates, starting with a large puddle. As r ...

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2022