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Henri Weisen, Javier García Hernández, Mikhail Maslov, Samuele Mazzi

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD2020

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Ion cyclotron resonance heating scenarios for DEMO

Olivier Sauter, Yiming Li, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Cristian Sommariva, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Mikhail Maslov, Federico Nespoli, Yao Zhou, Davide Galassi, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, Emiliano Fable, Francesca Maria Poli, Daniele Brunetti, Anna Teplukhina, Alberto Mariani, Kenji Tanaka, Bernhard Sieglin, Otto Asunta, Gergely Papp, Leonardo Pigatto

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

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In many tokamak and stellarator experiments around the globe that arc investigating energy production via controlled thermonuclear fusion, electron cyclotron heating and current drive (ECH&CD) are used for plasma start-up, heating, non-inductive current dr ...

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DIII-D research towards establishing the scientific basis for future fusion reactors

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Development and optimisation of advanced auxiliary ion heating schemes for 3D fusion plasma devices

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Modelling of JET hybrid plasmas with emphasis on performance of combined ICRF and NBI heating

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During the 2015-2016 JET campaigns, many efforts have been devoted to the exploration of high-performance plasma scenarios envisaged for DT operation in JET. In this paper, we review various key recent hybrid discharges and model the combined ICRF+NBI heat ...

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