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How accurate are flux-tube (local) gyrokinetic codes in modeling energetic particle effects on core turbulence?

Olivier Sauter, Alberto Bottino, Emanuele Poli

Flux-tube (local) gyrokinetic codes are widely used to simulate drift-wave turbulence in magnetic confinement devices. While a large number of studies show that flux-tube codes provide an excellent approximation for turbulent transport in medium-large devi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Numerical 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 Ltd2023

Implementation of energy transfer technique in ORB5 to study collisionless wave-particle interactions in phase-space

Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Emmanuel Lanti, Noé Thomas Elie Ohana, Emanuele Poli

A new diagnostic has been developed to investigate the wave-particle interaction in the phase-space in gyrokinetic particle-in-cell codes. Keeping information about energy transfer terms in the velocity space, the technique has been implemented and tested ...

2021

Basic design considerations for a frequency step-tunable electron cyclotron wave system to suppress NTMs in DEMO

Minh Quang Tran, Emiliano Fable, Hartmut Zohm, Emanuele Poli, Konstantinos Avramidis, Giovanni Tardini

An Electron Cyclotron Wave (ECW) system will be used in the European DEMO for the stabilization of Neoclassical Tearing Modes (NTMs). In order to avoid movable mirrors in the harsh environment close to the plasma and to simplify the NTM launcher integratio ...

2021

Nonlinear dynamics of energetic-particle driven geodesic acoustic modes in ASDEX Upgrade

Laurent Villard, Emmanuel Lanti, Alberto Bottino, Noé Thomas Elie Ohana, Emanuele Poli

Turbulence in tokamaks generates radially sheared zonal flows. Their oscillatory counterparts, geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs), appear due to the action of the magnetic field curvature. The GAMs can be driven unstable by an anisotropic energetic particle (E ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

Overview of physics studies on ASDEX Upgrade

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Benoît Labit, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Alessandro Pau, Cristian Sommariva, Laurie Porte, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle

The ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) programme, jointly run with the EUROfusion MST1 task force, continues to significantly enhance the physics base of ITER and DEMO. Here, the full tungsten wall is a key asset for extrapolating to future devices. The high overall heat ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Nearing final design of the ITER EC H&CD Upper Launcher

Olivier Sauter, Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Jean-Daniel Landis, Robert Bertizzolo, Matteo Vagnoni, Florian Ramseyer, Emanuele Poli

The ITER ECRH system consists of 24 gyrotrons with up to 24 MW installed millimeter wave heating power at 170 GHz, power supplies, control system, transmission lines, one Equatorial and the four Upper Launchers. With its high frequency and small beam focus ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Millimeter-wave beam scattering by edge-plasma density fluctuations in TCV

Stefano Alberti, Timothy Goodman, Oulfa Chellaï, Ivo Furno, Fabio Riva, Paolo Ricci, Benoît Labit, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Emanuele Poli

In magnetically confined fusion devices, the use of millimeter waves (mmw) at the electron cyclotron (EC) frequencies ranges from plasma diagnostics to plasma heating, current drive and core confinement preservation. For large tokamaks such as ITER, numeri ...

2019

Evolution of nitrogen concentration and ammonia production in N-2-seeded H-mode discharges at ASDEX Upgrade

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Cristian Sommariva, Laurie Porte, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Haomin Sun, Richard Pitts

Ammonia formation was studied in a series of dedicated nitrogen seeded H-mode discharges at ASDEX Upgrade. The evolution of ammonia formation was investigated with a reference phase before the seeding, and a long, stable flat-top nitrogen-seeded phase. It ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Control of NTMs and integrated multi-actuator plasma control on TCV

Olivier Sauter, Jean-Marc Moret, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Cristian Galperti, Mengdi Kong, Francesco Carpanese, Anna Teplukhina, Federico Pesamosca, Emanuele Poli

The control of 2/1 neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs) with electron cyclotron (EC) waves has been studied both experimentally and numerically on TCV. Dynamic evolutions of NTMs along with time-varying deposition locations of the control beam have been studi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019