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First-Principles Density Limit Scaling in Tokamaks Based on Edge Turbulent Transport and Implications for ITER

Olivier Sauter, Paolo Ricci, Alessandro Pau, Maurizio Giacomin

A first-principles scaling law, based on turbulent transport considerations, and a multimachine database of density limit discharges from the ASDEX Upgrade, JET, and TCV tokamaks, show that the increase of the boundary turbulent transport with the plasma c ...

2022

Overview of the TCV tokamak experimental programme

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

The tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) continues to leverage its unique shaping capabilities, flexible heating systems and modern control system to address critical issues in preparation for ITER and a fusion power plant. For the 2019-20 campaign its c ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Overview of JET results for optimising ITER operation

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Cristian Sommariva, Umar Sheikh, Henri Weisen

The JET 2019-2020 scientific and technological programme exploited the results of years of concerted scientific and engineering work, including the ITER-like wall (ILW: Be wall and W divertor) installed in 2010, improved diagnostic capabilities now fully a ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Progress from ASDEX Upgrade experiments in preparing the physics basis of ITER operation and DEMO scenario development

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

An overview of recent results obtained at the tokamak ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) is given. A work flow for predictive profile modelling of AUG discharges was established which is able to reproduce experimental H-mode plasma profiles based on engineering parameter ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

EAST discharge prediction without integrating simulation results

Alessandro Pau, Xiaojuan Liu, Chenguang Wan

In this work, a purely data-driven discharge prediction model was developed and tested without integrating any data or results from simulations. The model was developed based on the experimental data from the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak ( ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Plasma confinement mode classification using a sequence-to-sequence neural network with attention

Alessandro Pau, Gino Marceca

In a typical fusion experiment, the plasma can have several possible confinement modes. At the tokamak a configuration variable, aside from the low (L) and high (H) confinement modes, an additional mode, dithering (D), is frequently observed. Developing me ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

A statistical approach for the automatic identification of the start of the chain of events leading to the disruptions at JET

Alessandro Pau

This paper reports an algorithm to automatically identify the chain of events leading to a disruption, evaluating the so-called reference warning time. This time separates the plasma current flat-top of each disrupted discharge into two parts: a non-disrup ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Integrated Real-Time Supervisory Management for Off-Normal-Event Handling and Feedback Control of Tokamak Plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Alessandro Pau, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Cristian Galperti, Anna Ngoc Minh Trang Vu, Bernhard Sieglin

For long-pulse tokamaks, one of the main challenges in the control strategy is to simultaneously reach multiple control objectives and to robustly handle in real-time (RT) unexpected events [off-normal-events (ONEs)] with a limited set of actuators. We hav ...

2021

Progress in preparing real-time control schemes for Deuterium-Tritium operation in JET

Alessandro Pau, Matteo Fontana

Operation of a magnetic fusion experiment, such as JET, relies on the availability of real-time (RT) control schemes, which supervise the plasma as it approaches the expected target performance while maintaining the integrity of the machine and its subsyst ...

2021

Classification of tokamak plasma confinement states with convolutional recurrent neural networks

Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Alessandro Pau

During a tokamak discharge, the plasma can vary between different confinement regimes: low (L), high (H) and, in some cases, a temporary (intermediate state), called dithering (D). In addition, while the plasma is in H mode, edge localized modes (ELMs) can ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

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A statistical approach for the automatic identification of the start of the chain of events leading to the disruptions at JET

Alessandro Pau

IOP Publishing Ltd2021