Publications by Claudio Marini

Effect of energetic ions on edge-localized modes in tokamak plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Marc Moret, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici

The most efficient and promising operational regime for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor tokamak is the high-confinement mode. In this regime, however, periodic relaxations of the plasma edge can occur. These edge-localized modes pose a ...

2025

Nonlocal effects in negative triangularity TCV plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Zhouji Huang, Gabriele Merlo, Claudio Marini

Global gradient driven gyrokinetic simulations performed with the Gyrokinetic Electromagnetic Numerical Experiment (GENE) code are used to investigate Tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) plasmas with negative triangularity. Considering limited L-mode pl ...

2021

Investigation of the role of electron temperature gradient modes in electron heat transport in TCV plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Stephan Brunner, Laurie Porte, Alexander Karpushov, Alberto Mariani, Claudio Marini

Electron-scale micro-turbulence driven by the electron temperature gradient (ETG) instability has recently been shown to impact the electron heat transport in tokamaks. Given the relevance of these mechanisms for ITER scenarios, a new study has been carrie ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

First B-dot measurements in the RAID device, an alternative negative ion source for DEMO neutral beams

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier, Riccardo Agnello, Gennady Plyushchev, Claudio Marini

As a new concept of Neutral Beam Injectors (NBI) for DEMO-like reactors, SIPHORE (IRFM, CEA, in France) expects to extract negative deuterium ions and photo-neutralize the accelerated D-. The Swiss Plasma Center (SPC) of EPFL is involved in this project by ...

Elsevier B.V.2019

Dependence on plasma shape and plasma fueling for small edge-localized mode regimes in TCV and ASDEX Upgrade

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Marc Moret, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Physics research on the TCV tokamak facility: from conventional to alternative scenarios and beyond

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Jonathan Graves, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Stefano Alberti, Ivo Furno

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

A Variable Structure Control Scheme Proposal for the Tokamak a Configuration Variable

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Jonathan Graves, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Ivo Furno, Duccio Testa

Fusion power is the most significant prospects in the long-term future of energy in the sense that it composes a potentially clean, cheap, and unlimited power source that would substitute the widespread traditional nonrenewable energies, reducing the geogr ...

2019

ELM-induced cold pulse propagation in ASDEX Upgrade

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit

In ASDEX Upgrade, the propagation of cold pulses induced by type-I edge localized modes (ELMs) is studied using electron cyclotron emission measurements, in a dataset of plasmas with moderate triangularity. It is found that the edge safety factor or the pl ...

2019

A locked mode indicator for disruption prediction on JET and ASDEX upgrade

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jonathan Graves, Jean-Marc Moret, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes

The aim of this paper is to present a signal processing algorithm that, applied to the raw Locked Mode signal, allows us to obtain a disruption indicator in principle exploitable on different tokamaks. A common definition of such an indicator for different ...

2019

Validation of the ICRF antenna coupling code RAPLICASOL against TOPICA and experiments

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Bruno Marchand, Holger Reimerdes

In this paper we validate the finite element code RAPLICASOL, which models radiofrequency wave propagation in edge plasmas near ICRF antennas, against calculations with the TOPICA code. We compare the output of both codes for the ASDEX Upgrade 2-strap ante ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019