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MAST-U is equipped with on-axis and off-axis neutral beam injectors (NBI), and these external sources of super-Alfv & eacute;nic deuterium fast-ions provide opportunities for studying a wide range of phenomena relevant to the physics of alpha-particles in ...
Iop Publishing Ltd2024Numerical tools for burning plasmas
Jonathan Graves, Laurent Villard, Emmanuel Lanti, Baruch Rofman, Alberto Bottino, Ben McMillan, Xiao Wang, Emanuele Poli
The software stack under development within a European coordinated effort on tools for burning plasma modelling is presented. The project is organised as a Task (TSVV Task 10) under the new E-TASC initiative (Litaudon et al 2022 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusio ...
IOP Publishing Ltd2023A machine-learning-based tool for last closed-flux surface reconstruction on tokamaks
Olivier Sauter, Alessandro Pau, Xiaojuan Liu, Chenguang Wan
Tokamaks allow to confine fusion plasma with magnetic fields. The prediction/reconstruction of the last closed-flux surface (LCFS) is one of the primary challenges in the control of the magnetic configuration. The evolution in time of the LCFS is determine ...
IOP Publishing Ltd2023An experimental and computational study of tokamak plasma turbulence
Turbulence driven by small-scale instabilities results in strong heat and particle transport, which significantly shortens the confinement time and prevents the formation of a self-sustained plasma reaction in magnetic confinement devices. Control and poss ...
EPFL2023The JET hybrid scenario in Deuterium, Tritium and Deuterium-Tritium
Haomin Sun, Javier García Hernández, Mikhail Maslov, Matteo Fontana
The JET hybrid scenario has been developed from low plasma current carbon wall discharges to the record-breaking Deuterium-Tritium plasmas obtained in 2021 with the ITER-like Be/W wall. The development started in pure Deuterium with refinement of the plasm ...
Bristol2023Equilibrium pressure limits in stellarators
This thesis delves into the potential of magnetic fusion energy, and in particular focuses on the stellarator concept. Stellarators use external coils to produce 3-dimensional (3D) magnetic fields that confine a thermonuclear plasma in a topologically toro ...
EPFL2023Towards understanding reactor relevant tokamak pedestals
Jonathan Graves, Ben McMillan, Daniele Brunetti
The physics of the tokamak pedestal is still not fully understood, for example there is no fully predictive model for the pedestal height and width. However, the pedestal is key in determining the fusion power for a given scenario. If we can improve our un ...
IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021ICRF modelling in 2D and 3D magnetic configurations using a hot plasma model
Jonathan Graves, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Mike Machielsen
The generation of energetic trapped ions is important for experiments investigating their confinement in 3D magnetic fields, for plasma heating, for studies into unwanted drive of instabilities, and improved transport regimes. An effective way to generate ...
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