Publications by Dmytry Mykytchuk

Isotope effects in linear and saturated ohmic confinement of TCV tokamak and gyrokinetic validation

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Benoît Labit, Alexander Karpushov, Artur Perek, Oleg Krutkin, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Henri Weisen, Lorenzo Martinelli

We investigated isotope effects during the tokamak à configuration variable (TCV) ohmic discharge of a diverted positive triangular shape configuration of deuterium (D) and hydrogen (H) plasmas. The transition from the linear ohmic confinement (LOC) regime ...

2025

L-H power threshold for neutral beam heated plasmas with Deuterium, Hydrogen, Helium and mixed ion species in TCV

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Yves Martin, Benoît Labit, Alessandro Pau, Alexander Karpushov, Artur Perek, Dmytry Mykytchuk

A systematic study of the power threshold for L-H transition has been conducted in TCV. Only results from NB heated plasmas are reported. The dependencies of PLH on plasma current, plasma density and main ion species have been investigated. For Deuterium&# ...

IOP Publishing2025

Present status of heating neutral beam injection system at TCV

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Yves Martin, Patrick Blanchard, Alexander Karpushov, Damien Fasel, Yanis Andrebe, Matthieu Toussaint

The paper describes the operation and upgrade of the Heating Neutral Beam Injection (HNBI) system as well as the related infrastructure at the Tokamak Configuration Variable (TCV) during the last years. In 2023, the installation of new TCV neutron shieldin ...

2025

Study of impurity C transport and plasma rotation in negative triangularity on the TCV tokamak

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Benoît Labit, Alessandro Pau, Laurie Porte, Alexander Karpushov, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Justin Richard Ball, Dmytry Mykytchuk

Carbon impurity transport is studied in the TCV tokamak using a charge exchange recombination diagnostic. TCVs flexible shaping capabilities were exploited to extend previous impurity transport studies to negative triangularity (delta < 0). A practical way ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Experimental research on the TCV tokamak

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Stefano Alberti, Ivo Furno, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes

Tokamak à configuration variable (TCV), recently celebrating 30 years of near-continual operation, continues in its missions to advance outstanding key physics and operational scenario issues for ITER and the design of future power plants such as DEMO. The ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Overview of the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation programme in support of ITER and DEMO

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

Within the 9th European Framework programme, since 2021 EUROfusion is operating five tokamaks under the auspices of a single Task Force called ‘Tokamak Exploitation’. The goal is to benefit from the complementary capabilities of each machine in a coordinat ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Validation of 2D T e and n e measurements made with Helium imaging spectroscopy in the volume of the TCV divertor

Basil Duval, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Artur Perek, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Hugo De Oliveira, Filippo Bagnato, Lorenzo Martinelli

Multi-spectral imaging of helium atomic emission (HeMSI) has been used to create 2D poloidal maps of T-e and ne in TCV's divertor. To achieve these measurements, TCV's MANTIS multispectral cameras (Perek et al 2019 Rev. Sci. Instrum. 90 123514) simultaneou ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

4D and 5D phase-space tomography using slowing-down physics regularization

Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Dmytry Mykytchuk

We compute reconstructions of 4D and 5D fast-ion phase-space distribution functions in fusion plasmas from synthetic projections of these functions. The fast-ion phase-space distribution functions originating from neutral beam injection (NBI) at TCV and We ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Modelling of sawtooth-induced fast ion transport in positive and negative triangularity in TCV

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Alexander Karpushov, Duccio Testa, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Matteo Vallar, Lorenzo Stipani

Internal kinks are a common magneto hydro-dynamic (MHD) instability observed in tokamak operation when the q profile in the plasma core is close to unity. This MHD instability impacts both the transport of the bulk plasma (current, particle and energy tran ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

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