Publications by Christoph Wersal

Simulation of plasma turbulence in the periphery of diverted tokamak by using the GBS code

Paolo Ricci, Paola Paruta, Fabio Riva, Christoph Wersal, Baptiste Jimmy Frei, Carrie Fiona Beadle

We report on the implementation of diverted magnetic equilibria in GBS and on first simulations in this geometry. GBS is a simulation code used to evolve plasma turbulence in the tokamak periphery by solving the drift-reduced Braginskii's equations. The mo ...

2018

A comparison between a refined two-point model for the limited tokamak SOL and self-consistent plasma turbulence simulations

Paolo Ricci, Christoph Wersal, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella

A refined two-point model is derived from the drift-reduced Braginskii equations for the limited tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL) by balancing the parallel and perpendicular transport of plasma and heat and taking into account the plasma–neutral interaction. ...

Institute of Physics2017

Neutral atom dynamics and plasma turbulence in the tokamak periphery

Christoph Wersal

Understanding the physical mechanisms at play in the interaction between turbulent plasma and neutral particles is a crucial issue that we approach in this Thesis by using a first-principles self-consistent model of the tokamak periphery implemented in the ...

EPFL2017

Impact of neutral density fluctuations on gas puff imaging diagnostics

Paolo Ricci, Christoph Wersal

A three-dimensional turbulence simulation of the SOL and edge regions of a toroidally limited tokamak is carried out. The simulation couples self-consistently the drift-reduced two-fluid Braginskii equations to a kinetic equation for neutral atoms. A diagn ...

International Atomic Energy Agency2017

The GBS code for tokamak scrape-off layer simulations

Paolo Ricci, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Trach-Minh Tran, Sébastien Jolliet, Federico David Halpern, Fabio Riva, Annamaria Mosetto, Christoph Wersal

We describe a new version of GBS, a 3D global, flux-driven plasma turbulence code to simulate the turbulent dynamics in the tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL), superseding the code presented by Ricci et al. (2012) [14]. The present work is driven by the object ...

Elsevier2016

A first-principles self-consistent model of plasma turbulence and kinetic neutral dynamics in the tokamak scrape-off layer

Paolo Ricci, Christoph Wersal

A first-principles self-consistent model that couples plasma and neutral physics suitable for the simulation of turbulent plasma behavior in the tokamak SOL is presented. While the plasma is modeled by the drift-reduced two fluid Braginskii equations, a ki ...

International Atomic Energy Agency2015