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The merits of ion cyclotron heating schemes for sawtooth control in tokamak plasmas

Jonathan Graves, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin

JET experiments have compared the efficacy of low-and high field side ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH) as an actuator to deliberately minimise the sawtooth period. It is found that low-field side ICRH with low minority concentration is optimal for sa ...

Cambridge University Press2015

Demonstration of sawtooth period control with EC waves in KSTAR plasma

Olivier Sauter, Timothy Goodman, Doohyun Kim, Donghyun Kim

The sawtooth period control in tokamak is important issue in recent years because the sawtooth crash can trigger TM/NTM instabilities and drive plasmas unstable. The control of sawtooth period by the modification of local current profile near the q=1 surfa ...

E D P Sciences2015

Demonstration of sawtooth period control with EC waves in KSTAR

Olivier Sauter, Timothy Goodman, Doohyun Kim

EDP Sciences2015

Real-time sawtooth control and NTM preemption in ITER

Olivier Sauter, Timothy Goodman, Doohyun Kim, Donghyun Kim

Real-time control of multiple plasma actuators is a requirement in advanced tokamaks; for example, for burn control, plasma current profile control and MHD stabilizationelectron cyclotron (EC) wave absorption is ideally suited especially for the latter. O ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Digital Control System for Vertical Stability of the TCV Plasma

In advanced mode operation of fusion devices, real time control plays a central role in achieving the desired plasma performance and minimizing the risk of disruptions. With the advances in digital technologies like Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), Field ...

Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico2014

Edge Localized Mode Control in TCV

Jonathan Rossel

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 ...

EPFL2012

Real-Time Control of Tokamak Plasmas: from Control of Physics to Physics-Based Control

Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici

Stable, high-performance operation of a tokamak requires several plasma control problems to be handled simultaneously. Moreover, the complex physics which governs the tokamak plasma evolution must be studied and understood to make correct choices in contro ...

EPFL2011

Pedestal Characteristics and MHD Stability of H-Mode Plasmas in TCV

Andreas Pitzschke

The tokamak à configuration variable (TCV) is unique in its ability to create a variety of plasma shapes and to heat the electron population in high density regimes using microwave power at the third harmonic of the electron cyclotron frequency. In the fra ...

EPFL2011

Empirical scaling of sawtooth period for onset of neoclassical tearing modes

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Jonathan Graves

Experimental observations from a range of tokamaks show that neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs) are triggered at lower plasma pressure when the sawtooth period is longer. A multi-machine database from nine tokamaks has been established in order to extrapola ...

IOP2010

Overview of physics research on the TCV tokamak

Ambrogio Fasoli

The Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) tokamak is equipped with high-power (4.5 MW), real-time-controllable EC systems and flexible shaping, and plays an important role in fusion research by broadening the parameter range of reactor relevant regimes, b ...

2009