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Understanding and taming plasma blobs in toroidal magnetized plasmas

Intermittent blobs, which propagate across a confining magnetic fields, are universally observed in natural and laboratory plasmas. In fusion plasmas, cross-field transport of particles and energy are associated, at least in part, with the propagation of b ...

2011

Convective cells and blob control in a simple magnetized torus

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella

In view of controlling wall and divertor heat loads in magnetic fusion devices, we investigate the possibility of creating convective cells by means of biased electrodes for turbulence and blob control in the simple magnetized toroidal plasmas of TORPEX. A ...

2011

Basic Investigation of Turbulent Structures and Blobs of Relevance for Magnetic Fusion Plasmas

Christian Gabriel Theiler

Similarly to neutral fluids, plasmas often exhibit turbulent behavior. Turbulence in plasmas is usually more complex than in neutral fluids due to long range interactions via electric and magnetic fields, and kinetic effects. It gives rise to many interest ...

EPFL2011

A Far-Infrared Polarimeter Diagnostic for the Measurement of the Poloidal Magnetic Field in the TCV Tokamak

Information about the poloidal field inside the plasma and about the current density profile is essential for the understanding of the behavior of tokamak plasmas. The poloidal field outside the plasma edge is easily measured by a set of magnetic coils, wh ...

EPFL2011

Direct two-dimensional measurements of the eld-aligned current associated with plasma blobs

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Nicola Vianello

In simple magnetized toroidal plasmas, field-aligned blobs originate from ideal interchange waves and propagate radially outward under the effect of

\grad B

and curvature induced

E \times B

drifts. We report on the first experimental two-dimensional me ...

2011

Practical solutions for reliable triple probe measurements in magnetized plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Philippe Marmillod

The triple probe method to obtain local, time-resolved measurements of density, electron temperature and plasma potential is investigated in detail. The difficulties in obtaining reliable measurements with this technique are discussed and overcome. These i ...

2011

Three-Dimensional Imaging of a Radially Propagating Plasma Blob Using Conditional Sampling Techniques

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler

We present 3-D imaging of plasma blobs, generated from ideal interchange turbulence in the TORPEX device, obtained by applying different conditional sampling techniques to electrostatic probe data. Time-evolving spatial profiles of electron density, temper ...

2011

Existence of subsonic plasma sheaths

Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella

The location of the plasma sheath edge, where quasineutrality is broken, is rigorously derived by using a kinetic description of the plasma. It is shown that sheaths can exist with arbitrarily small ion velocity at the sheath edge, thus violating the Bohm ...

American Physical Society2011

Blob motion and control in simple magnetized plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Nicola Vianello, Davoud Iraji

Intermittent convective transport caused by coherent structures, or blobs, are universally observed in the edge of laboratory plasmas. Besides being of fundamental physics interest, the dynamics of these structures in fusion reactors influence the density ...

2010

Sheath boundary conditions for plasma fluid models

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella

A new definition of the sheath edge is rigorously derived taking into account the kinetic properties of the plasma, and a consistent set of local sheath edge conditions is presented for the case of a magnetic field perpendicular to the wall. These local bo ...

2010

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Understanding and taming plasma blobs in toroidal magnetized plasmas

Convective cells and blob control in a simple magnetized torus

Basic Investigation of Turbulent Structures and Blobs of Relevance for Magnetic Fusion Plasmas

A Far-Infrared Polarimeter Diagnostic for the Measurement of the Poloidal Magnetic Field in the TCV Tokamak

Direct two-dimensional measurements of the eld-aligned current associated with plasma blobs

Practical solutions for reliable triple probe measurements in magnetized plasmas

Three-Dimensional Imaging of a Radially Propagating Plasma Blob Using Conditional Sampling Techniques

Existence of subsonic plasma sheaths

Blob motion and control in simple magnetized plasmas

Sheath boundary conditions for plasma fluid models

A Far-Infrared Polarimeter Diagnostic for the Measurement of the Poloidal Magnetic Field in the TCV Tokamak

Convective cells and blob control in a simple magnetized torus

Practical solutions for reliable triple probe measurements in magnetized plasmas

Direct two-dimensional measurements of the eld-aligned current associated with plasma blobs

Basic Investigation of Turbulent Structures and Blobs of Relevance for Magnetic Fusion Plasmas

Understanding and taming plasma blobs in toroidal magnetized plasmas

Three-Dimensional Imaging of a Radially Propagating Plasma Blob Using Conditional Sampling Techniques

Existence of subsonic plasma sheaths

Blob motion and control in simple magnetized plasmas

Sheath boundary conditions for plasma fluid models