Publications by Lucia Isabel Federspiel

Overview of the FTU results

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Duccio Testa, Holger Reimerdes, Alexander Karpushov, Cristian Galperti, Gabriele Grosso, Doohyun Kim, Dávid Wágner, Lucia Isabel Federspiel

Since the 2012 IAEA-FEC Conference, FTU operations have been largely devoted to runaway electrons generation and control, to the exploitation of the 140 GHz electron cyclotron (EC) system and to liquid metal limiter elements. Experiments on runaway electro ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Effects of central electron cyclotron power on plasma rotation and on triggerless onset of NTMs in the TCV tokamak

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Duccio Testa, Holger Reimerdes, Alexander Karpushov, Doohyun Kim, Dávid Wágner, Lucia Isabel Federspiel, Jonathan Rossel, Donghyun Kim

Experiments on the TCV tokamak show that high power central electron cyclotron heating (ECH) and current drive (ECCD) produce significant direct modification of the plasma rotation profile, as well as the effect on the equilibrium current density. These ef ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2015

On the non-stiffness of edge transport in L-mode tokamak plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Stephan Brunner, Alexander Karpushov, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Yann Camenen, Roland Behn, Doohyun Kim

Transport analyses using first-principle turbulence codes and 11/2-D transport codes usually study radial transport properties between the tokamak plasma magnetic axis and a normalized minor radius around 0.8. In this region, heat transport shows significa ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Rotation and Impurity Studies in the presence of MHD activity and Internal Transport Barriers on TCV

Lucia Isabel Federspiel

EPFL2014

Development of real-time plasma analysis and control algorithms for the TCV tokamak using SIMULINK

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Marc Moret, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Wouter Vijvers, Alessandro Bortolon, James Paley, Lucia Isabel Federspiel

One of the key features of the new digital plasma control system installed on the TCV tokamak is the possibility to rapidly design, test and deploy real-time algorithms. With this flexibility the new control system has been used for a large number of new e ...

Elsevier2013

Indirect measurement of poloidal rotation using inboard–outboard asymmetry of toroidal rotation and comparison with neoclassical predictions

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Alexander Karpushov, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Alessandro Bortolon, Lucia Isabel Federspiel

An alternative experimental spectroscopic measurement of poloidal plasma rotation in toroidally confined plasmas is proven effective in the TCV tokamak. Charge exchange recombination measurements of the toroidal rotation profile over the full mid-plane pla ...

Int Atomic Energy Agency2012

Experimental demonstration of an up-down asymmetry effect on intrinsic rotation in the TCV tokamak

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Alexander Karpushov, Yann Camenen, Alessandro Bortolon, Lucia Isabel Federspiel, Francesco Piras

A new mechanism has recently been proposed that generates a radial flux of parallel momentum in toroidal plasmas. Namely, by considering up-down asymmetric flux surfaces, the symmetry following the magnetic field can be broken and an additional contributio ...

Institute of Physics2010

Experimental Evidence of Momentum Transport Induced by an Up-Down Asymmetric Magnetic Equilibrium in Toroidal Plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Alexander Karpushov, Yann Camenen, Alessandro Bortolon, Lucia Isabel Federspiel, Francesco Piras

The first experimental evidence of parallel momentum transport generated by the up-down asymmetry of a toroidal plasma is reported. The experiments, conducted in the Tokamak a` Configuration Variable, were motivated by the recent theoretical discovery of i ...

2010

Electrostatic instabilities, turbulence and fast ion interactions in the TORPEX device

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Gennady Plyushchev, Lucia Isabel Federspiel

Electrostatic turbulence, related structures and their effect on particle, heat and toroidal momentum transport are investigated in TORPEX simple magnetized plasmas using high-resolution diagnostics, control parameters, linear fluid models and nonlinear nu ...

Institute of Physics2010