Publications related to Feedback control of the proximity to marginal RWM stability using active MHD spectroscopy

Sensitivity Analysis of the Lumped Thermal Model of the EU 170 GHz Gyrotron Magnetron Injection Gun

The ITER Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating and Current Drive (ECRH&CD) system relies on 1 MW 170 GHz Gyrotrons to provide the mm-wave power needed for plasma heating, current drive, and magneto-hydrodynamic control. The design and modeling of the contro ...

Piscataway2024

Exploration of the parameter space for the excitation and saturation of Edge Harmonic Oscillations

Guillermo Bustos Ramirez

This thesis presents advancements in the understanding of the plasma conditions leading to the excitation and saturation of the Edge Harmonic Oscillations (EHOs) observed during QH-mode operation in tokamak plasmas. Such operations represent a safer altern ...

EPFL2023

Full-discharge simulation and optimization with the RAPTOR code, from present tokamaks to ITER and DEMO

Simon Van Mulders

Tokamak devices aim to magnetically confine a hydrogen plasma at sufficiently high pressure to achieve net energy production from nuclear fusion of light isotopes. Predictive modeling and optimization is crucial for reliable operation of tokamak reactors, ...

EPFL2023

Model-based optimization of magnetic control in the TCV tokamak: design and experiments

Federico Pesamosca

Thermonuclear controlled fusion is a promising answer to the current energy and climate issues, providing a safe carbon-free source of energy which is virtually inexhaustible. In magnetic confinement thermonuclear fusion based on tokamak reactors, hydrogen ...

EPFL2021

Real-time feedback control system for ADITYA-U horizontal plasma position stabilisation

Harshita Raj, Rohit Kumar, Shivam Gupta

The ADITYA-U tokamak (R-0 = 0.75 m, a = 0.25 m) is designed to shape plasma column in both single and double null diverter configurations. It is quite well known that sustaining a shaped plasma in tokamak requires very good plasma column position control, ...

2021

Anisotropy and shaping effects on the stability boundaries of infernal ideal MHD modes in tokamak hybrid plasmas

Jonathan Graves, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Daniele Brunetti

Anisotropy and some limiting toroidal flow effects on the stability of nearly resonant ideal magnetohydrodynamic modes in hybrid shaped tokamak plasmas are investigated within the ideal MHD infernal mode framework. Such effects are found to alter the plasm ...

2020

MHD Stability and Energy Principle for Two-Dimensional Equilibria without Assumption of Nested Magnetic Surfaces

Laurent Villard, Andrei Martynov

Abandoning the assumption of nested magnetic surfaces in tokamak plasma expands the field of research and opens up new approaches for both theoretical and experimental plasma physics. The computer code KINX for calculations of the ideal MHD stability was d ...

PLEIADES PUBLISHING INC2019

On the triggerless onset of 2/1 neoclassical tearing modes in TCV

Olivier Sauter, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Mengdi Kong

Triggerless

2/1

neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs), i.e.

2/1

NTMs that originate from unstable safety factor profiles (with positive classical stability index at zero island width, i.e.

\Delta'_0>0

) and saturate neoclassically under the effect of pert ...

IOP2019

Realistic multi-machine tokamak profile simulations and numerical ramp-down optimization using the RAPTOR code

Anna Teplukhina

Predictive modelling of plasma profiles is an essential part of ongoing research in tokamak plasmas, required for a successful realization of future fusion reactors. This thesis focuses on upgrading the RAPTOR code to extend the area of its applicability f ...

EPFL2018

Analytic stability criteria for edge MHD oscillations in high performance ELM free tokamak regimes

Jonathan Graves, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Daniele Brunetti, Alberto Mariani

A new dispersion relation, and associated stability criteria, is derived for low-n external kink and infernal modes, and is applied to modelling the stability properties of quiescent H-mode like regimes. The analysis, performed in toroidal geometry with la ...

IAEA2018

Feedback control of the proximity to marginal RWM stability using active MHD spectroscopy

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Sensitivity Analysis of the Lumped Thermal Model of the EU 170 GHz Gyrotron Magnetron Injection Gun

Exploration of the parameter space for the excitation and saturation of Edge Harmonic Oscillations

Full-discharge simulation and optimization with the RAPTOR code, from present tokamaks to ITER and DEMO

Model-based optimization of magnetic control in the TCV tokamak: design and experiments

Real-time feedback control system for ADITYA-U horizontal plasma position stabilisation

Anisotropy and shaping effects on the stability boundaries of infernal ideal MHD modes in tokamak hybrid plasmas

MHD Stability and Energy Principle for Two-Dimensional Equilibria without Assumption of Nested Magnetic Surfaces

On the triggerless onset of 2/1 neoclassical tearing modes in TCV

Realistic multi-machine tokamak profile simulations and numerical ramp-down optimization using the RAPTOR code

Analytic stability criteria for edge MHD oscillations in high performance ELM free tokamak regimes

MHD Stability and Energy Principle for Two-Dimensional Equilibria without Assumption of Nested Magnetic Surfaces

Model-based optimization of magnetic control in the TCV tokamak: design and experiments

Real-time feedback control system for ADITYA-U horizontal plasma position stabilisation

Exploration of the parameter space for the excitation and saturation of Edge Harmonic Oscillations

Full-discharge simulation and optimization with the RAPTOR code, from present tokamaks to ITER and DEMO

Realistic multi-machine tokamak profile simulations and numerical ramp-down optimization using the RAPTOR code

Analytic stability criteria for edge MHD oscillations in high performance ELM free tokamak regimes

Anisotropy and shaping effects on the stability boundaries of infernal ideal MHD modes in tokamak hybrid plasmas

On the triggerless onset of 2/1 neoclassical tearing modes in TCV

Sensitivity Analysis of the Lumped Thermal Model of the EU 170 GHz Gyrotron Magnetron Injection Gun