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Equilibrium reconstruction in an iron core tokamak using a deterministic magnetisation model
Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Jonathan Graves, Yves Martin, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Cristian Sommariva, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Mikhail Maslov, Federico Nespoli, Yao Zhou, David Pfefferlé, Davide Galassi, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Liang Yao, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, Bernhard Sieglin, Otto Asunta
In many tokamaks ferromagnetic material, usually referred to as an iron-core, is present in order to improve the magnetic coupling between the solenoid and the plasma. The presence of the iron core in proximity to the plasma changes the magnetic topology w ...
2018Local up-down asymmetrically shaped equilibrium model for tokamak plasmas
A local magnetic equilibrium model is presented, with finite inverse aspect ratio and up-down asymmetrically shaped cross section, that depends on eight free parameters. In contrast with other local equilibria, which provide simple magnetic-surface paramet ...
IOP PUBLISHING LTD2018Inter-Layer Joint for the TF Coils of DEMO-Design and Test Results
Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Boris Stepanov
In summer 2015, a new reference baseline is issued for the DEMO EUROfusion tokamak. Thereafter, the toroidal field (TF) coils have been updated with the new layout of the react-and-wind conductor proposed by the Swiss Plasma Center (SPC). Each TF coil cons ...
Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2018Poloidal CX visible light plasma rotation diagnostics in TCV
Controlled thermonuclear fusion is the main goal of plasma physics. At the Swiss Plasma Center, the Tokamak `a Configuration Variable (TCV) constitutes the main experiment on fusion research, where high temperature plasmas are confined by means of magneti ...
EPFL2017Exploration of candidate fusion reactor regimes by real time control of tokamak plasma shape
The potential of nuclear fusion to provide a practically inexhaustible source of energy has motivated scientists to work towards developing nuclear fusion tokamak power plants. Stable operation of a tokamak at high performance requires simultaneous treatme ...
EPFL2017Self-consistent interaction of fast particles and ICRF waves in 3D applications of fusion plasma devices
Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin
Tokamaks and stellarators are the most promising reactor concepts using the magnetic confinement to contain the plasma fuel. Reactors capable of sustaining deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion reactions requires the confinement of a very high temperature plasma ...
EPFL2017Exploring drift effects in TCV single-null plasmas with the UEDGE code
Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Roberto Maurizio
This paper explores the effects of particle drifts across the magnetic field in TCV single-null plasmas using the two-dimensional edge plasma transport code UEDGE. In particular, it aims to reproduce a double-peaked density target profile, a feature which ...
Institute of Physics2017An arbitrary wavelength solver for global gyrokinetic simulations. Application to the study of fine radial structures on microturbulence due to non-adiabatic passing electron dynamics
Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Trach-Minh Tran, Ben McMillan, Gabriele Merlo, Julien Stanislas Pierre Dominski
The influence of the fine layers of the non-adiabatic passing electron response on electrostatic turbulent transport, previously studied systematically in flux tube geometry [Dominski et al., Phys. Plasmas 22, 062303 (2015)], is pursued in global geometry ...
Amer Inst Physics2017Plasma breakdown and current formation in single core and doublet configurations on TCV
This thesis presents an experimental investigation of the plasma formation in the TCV tokamak. The primary goal of this work was to program a reliable and smooth plasma formation at several positions within the TCV vessel and then use the gained understand ...
EPFL2017Design, Manufacture, and Test of an 80 kA-Class Nb3Sn Cable-In-Conduit Conductor With Rectangular Geometry and Distributed Pressure Relief Channels
Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Boris Stepanov, Rainer Wesche
Within the frame of the R& D activities carried out in Europe for the toroidal field coils of the nuclear fusion device DEMO, a fundamental milestone was considered to be the demonstration of Nb3Sn cable-in-conduit conductors (CICC) performance in the dema ...
Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017