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

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

Efficient generation of energetic ions in multi-ion plasmas by radio-frequency heating

Henri Weisen, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Yu Lin

We describe a new technique for the efficient generation of high-energy ions with electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves in multi-ion plasmas. The discussed three-ion scenarios are especially suited for strong wave absorption by a very low number of resonant ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Stabilization of the vertical instability by non-axisymmetric coils

Wilfred Anthony Cooper

In a published Physical Review Letter (Reiman 2007 Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 135007), it was shown that axisymmetric (or vertical) stability can be improved by placing a set of parallelogram coils above and below the plasma oriented at an angle to the constant t ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Hierarchical Model Predictive Control in Fusion Reactors

Stefano Coda, Jean-Marc Moret, Hoang Bao Le

Nuclear fusion still has to pass several milestones on its way to successful energy production, one of them being successful plasma stabilization. The present article presents an innovative control implementation related to plasma control for the generatio ...

Ieee2016

The motion of a 2D pendulum in a channel subjected to an incoming flow

François Gallaire, Andrea Fani

The flow around a tethered cylinder subjected to an incoming flow transverse to its main axis and confined in a channel is investigated by means of global stability analysis of the full coupled body-fluid problem. When the cylinder is strongly confined (ra ...

Cambridge University Press2015

Turbulence at the boundary of toroidal plasmas with open and closed magnetic flux surfaces

Fabio Avino

The control and confinement of fusion plasmas are currently limited by a lack of understanding of the physical mechanisms behind the evolution of the turbulent transport experienced by particles and energy. In-situ investigations of plasma turbulence in fu ...

EPFL2015

Basic characterization of TORPEX electrostatic modes in closed field line configurations

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Fabio Avino, Sébastien Jolliet

Electrostatic coherent modes are studied in the TORPEX device [Fasoli et al., Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion 52, 124020 (2010)], in closed flux surfaces. The accessibility to this magnetic geometry is provided by a current-carrying in-vessel toroidal condu ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Plasma turbulence studies in TORPEX basic plasma pyhsics device: from concentric flux surfaces to single null X-points

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Fabio Avino, Alexandre Dominique Bovet

TORPEX is a basic plasma physics device where a simple magnetized torus (SMT) is produced by adding a small vertical magnetic field to a main toroidal component, generating helical field lines. The SMT configuration features the main ingredients of a tokam ...

2014

Fast growing resistive two fluid instabilities in hybrid-like tokamak configuration

Jonathan Graves, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Daniele Brunetti

An analytic derivation of the dispersion relation for resistive instabilities in a low-shear tokamak configuration is presented. The resistive infernal mode model (Charlton et al 1989 Phys. Fluids B 1 798) is generalized to include plasma diamagnetism, sub ...

Institute of Physics2014

Analysis of global hydromagnetic instabilities driven by strongly sheared toroidal flows in tokamak plasmas

Jonathan Graves

Recent numerical calculations have shown that while strong toroidal rotation can increase the external kink limit of tokamak plasmas, the associated rotation shear can drive a Kelvin-Helmholtz like global instability in the plasma, if the rotation frequenc ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

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