Publications by Alessandro Marinoni

Enhanced confinement in diverted negative-triangularity L-mode plasmas in TCV

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Benoît Labit, Laurie Porte, Alessandro Pau, Alessandro Marinoni, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Matteo Vallar

The favorable confinement properties of negative-triangularity (NT) tokamak configurations were discovered in the TCV tokamak in the late 1990s and were documented over the two following decades, through investigations of predominantly electron-heated plas ...

2022

The high-power helicon program at DIII-D: gearing up for first experiments

Alessandro Marinoni

Helicon current drive (CD), also called fast wave CD in the lower hybrid range of frequencies, has long been regarded as a promising CD tool for reactor grade plasmas. A newly installed MW-level system at DIII-D will be the first test of this technology in ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Diverted negative triangularity plasmas on DIII-D: the benefit of high confinement without the liability of an edge pedestal

Stefano Coda, Alessandro Marinoni, Francesco Sciortino

Diverted discharges at negative triangularity on the DIII-D tokamak sustain normalized confinement and pressure levels typical of standard H-mode scenarios (H (98y2) similar or equal to 1, beta (N) similar or equal to 3) without developing an edge pressure ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

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

Olivier Sauter, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Terunobu Akiyama, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Dongbin Zhao, Zhixian Yan, Jeffrey Huang, Xin Yang, Richard Pitts

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 ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

H-mode grade confinement in L-mode edge plasmas at negative triangularity on DIII-D

Olivier Sauter, Alessandro Marinoni, Sung Chul Park

Plasmas with a negative triangularity shape have been created on the DIII-D tokamak that, despite maintaining standard L-mode edge radial profiles, reach volume averaged pressure levels typical of H-mode scenarios. Within the auxiliary power available for ...

2019

Multi-device studies of pedestal physics and confinement in the I-mode regime

Christian Gabriel Theiler, Alessandro Marinoni

This paper describes joint ITPA studies of the I-mode regime, which features an edge thermal barrier together with L-mode-like particle and impurity transport and no edge localized modes (ELMs). The regime has been demonstrated on the Alcator C-Mod, ASDEX ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2016

Investigating profile stiffness and critical gradients in shaped TCV discharges using local gyrokinetic simulations of turbulent transport

Olivier Sauter, Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Yann Camenen, Alessandro Marinoni, Gabriele Merlo

The experimental observation made on the TCV tokamak of a significant confinement improvement in plasmas with negative triangularity (delta < 0) compared to those with standard positive triangularity has been interpreted in terms of different degrees of pr ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Analysis of the BN-600 fast-spectrum core mock-up at BFS-2 zero-power facility using MCNPX

Gaëtan Girardin, Konstantin Mikityuk, Alessandro Marinoni

A 3D full-core heterogeneous model of the BFS-62-3A critical benchmark experiment was developed and validated using the Monte Carlo MCNPX-2.4.0 code. ...

Elsevier2012

Recent TCV results – innovative plasma shaping to improve plasma properties and insight

Basil Duval, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Marc Moret, Laurent Villard, Benoît Labit, Laurie Porte, Holger Reimerdes, Alexander Karpushov

2012

Plasma fluctuation studies in the TCV tokamak : modeling of shaping effects and advanced diagnostic development

Alessandro Marinoni

One of the most important issues for magnetic-confinement fusion research is the so-called anomalous transport across magnetic field lines, i.e. transport that is in excess of that caused by collisional processes. The need to reduce anomalous transport in ...

EPFL2009