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Gyrokinetic modelling of macro-instabilities in high performance tokamak plasmas

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The present work takes place within the general context of research related to the development of nuclear fusion energy. More specifically, this thesis is mainly a numerical and physical contribution to the understanding of turbulence and associated transp ...

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Toroidal drift precession and wave - particle interaction in shaped tokamaks with infinite beta and neoclassical equilibrium effects

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The drift kinetic equation is analysed for linear instabilities that are sensitive to the toroidal drift motion of long-mean free path particle populations. The interaction Lagrangian is resolved, and the toroidal drift precession evaluated for realistic t ...

IOP2013

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Edge Localized Mode Control in TCV

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The Tokamak concept, based on magnetic confinement of a hydrogen plasma, is one of today's most promising paths to energy production by nuclear fusion. The experimental scenarios leading to the largest fusion rate are based on a high confinement plasma reg ...

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The basic plasma physics device TORPEX features some of the main ingredients of the Scrape-Off Layer (SOL) of fusion devices, including gradients of density and magnetic field, as well as magnetic field curvature. A simple magnetized torus configuration (S ...

2012

First results on the plasma fluctuations of the TORPEX device in the new magnetic field configurations

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The TORoidal Plasma EXperiment (TORPEX) is a basic plasma physics device where a Simple Magnetized Torus configuration (SMT) can be obtained superimposing a small vertical magnetic field component on the main toroidal field, resulting in open magnetic heli ...

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Study of the ITER Stray Magnetic Field Effect on the EU 170-GHz2-MW Coaxial Cavity Gyrotron

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In this paper, the effect of the ITER stray magnetic field (SMF) on the operation of the European gyrotron has been studied. The SMFs include the magnetic field generated by neighboring gyrotrons, the ITER tokamak, and also the field perturbations caused b ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2012

Macroscopic Stability of High Beta MAST plasmas

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The high-beta capability of the spherical tokamak, coupled with a suite of world-leading diagnostics on MAST, has facilitated significant improvements in the understanding of performance-limiting core instabilities in high performance plasmas. For instance ...

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Helical core tokamak MHD equilibrium states

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Bifurcated magnetohydrodynamic tokamak equilibrium states with axisymmetric or helical core structure are computed. When a peaked pressure profile is chosen, the helical core structures appear like the {em snakes} that are observed in the JET tokamak. They ...

Caroline Wilkinson2011

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Magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium states with a three-dimensional helical core are computed to model the MAST spherical tokamak and the RFX-mod reversed field pinch. The boundary is fixed as axisymmetric. The MAST equilibrium state has the appearance of an i ...

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