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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, Francesco Romano

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

2024

A hydrogenated amorphous silicon detector for Space Weather applications

Sylvain Dunand, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Matthew James Large

The characteristics of a hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) detector are presented here for monitoring in space solar flares and the evolution of strong to extreme energetic proton events. The importance and the feasibility to extend the proton measur ...

SPRINGER2023

Shafranov shift correction to the Furth-Yoshikawa scaling of tokamak adiabatic compression

Olivier Sauter

In 1970, Furth and Yoshikawa (1970 Phys. Fluids 13 2593-6) introduced the scalings of adiabatic plasma compression. Basically, if the shape of the external plasma boundary and the aspect ratio are preserved during the compression, then the density, kinetic ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Full-discharge simulation and optimization with the RAPTOR code, from present tokamaks to ITER and DEMO

Simon Van Mulders

Tokamak devices aim to magnetically confine a hydrogen plasma at sufficiently high pressure to achieve net energy production from nuclear fusion of light isotopes. Predictive modeling and optimization is crucial for reliable operation of tokamak reactors, ...

EPFL2023

Implementation of energy transfer technique in ORB5 to study collisionless wave-particle interactions in phase-space

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

A new diagnostic has been developed to investigate the wave-particle interaction in the phase-space in gyrokinetic particle-in-cell codes. Keeping information about energy transfer terms in the velocity space, the technique has been implemented and tested ...

ELSEVIER2021

Fast ion transport phenomena in turbulent toroidal plasmas

Fabian Manke

In the field of plasma physics, suprathermal ions are encountered e.g. in astrophysical jets, the solar wind, as well as fusion plasmas, where they originate from neutral beam injection or fusion reactions. One aspect of shared interest with astrophysical ...

EPFL2020

DIII-D research towards establishing the scientific basis for future fusion reactors

Olivier Sauter, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Terunobu Akiyama, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Jeffrey Huang, Richard Pitts, Sun Hee Kim, Federico David Halpern, Francesca Maria Poli, Alessandro Bortolon, Alessandro Marinoni, Gabriele Merlo, Fang Liu, Stefan Müller, Wei Wu, Kyungjin Kim, Jérôme Guterl, Xi Chen, Gang Yu, Huan Du, Bingying Zhao, Ji Hyun Kim, Zheng Wang, Yi Wang, Hui Wang, Yu Fu

DIII-D research is addressing critical challenges in preparation for ITER and the next generation of fusion devices through focusing on plasma physics fundamentals that underpin key fusion goals, understanding the interaction of disparate core and boundary ...

2019

A Gyrokinetic Model for the Tokamak Periphery

Paolo Ricci, Rogério Manuel Cabete De Jesus Jorge, Baptiste Jimmy Frei, Antoine Baillod

Despite significant developments over the last decades, an analytical model which adequately describes plasma dynamics in the tokamak periphery region extending from the edge region to the far scrape-off layer is still missing. In this work, we present a n ...

2018

Poloidal CX visible light plasma rotation diagnostics in TCV

Claudio Marini

Controlled thermonuclear fusion is the main goal of plasma physics. At the Swiss Plasma Center, the Tokamak `a Configuration Variable (TCV) constitutes the main experiment on fusion research, where high temperature plasmas are confined by means of magneti ...

EPFL2017

Exploration of candidate fusion reactor regimes by real time control of tokamak plasma shape

Himank Anand

The potential of nuclear fusion to provide a practically inexhaustible source of energy has motivated scientists to work towards developing nuclear fusion tokamak power plants. Stable operation of a tokamak at high performance requires simultaneous treatme ...

EPFL2017

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