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Equilibrium pressure limits in stellarators

This thesis delves into the potential of magnetic fusion energy, and in particular focuses on the stellarator concept. Stellarators use external coils to produce 3-dimensional (3D) magnetic fields that confine a thermonuclear plasma in a topologically toro ...

EPFL2023

Implementation of energy transfer technique in ORB5 to study collisionless wave-particle interactions in phase-space

Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Emmanuel Lanti, Noé Thomas Elie Ohana, Emanuele Poli

A new diagnostic has been developed to investigate the wave-particle interaction in the phase-space in gyrokinetic particle-in-cell codes. Keeping information about energy transfer terms in the velocity space, the technique has been implemented and tested ...

2021

Fully Soft-Switched High Step-Up Nonisolated Three-Port DC-DC Converter Using GaN HEMTs

Marco Mattavelli, Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Georgios Kampitsis, Rasoul Faraji

In this article, a soft-switched nonisolated high step-up multi-input dc-dc converter is proposed. The proposed converter has overcome the hard switching problem of the conventional boost three port converter (boost-TPC) by providing zero-voltage-switching ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Megawatt power generation of the dual-frequency gyrotron for TCV at 84 and 126 GHz, in long pulses

Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Matthieu Toussaint, Ugo Siravo, Jérémy Genoud, Jérémie Dubray, Jonathan Sylvain Masur

In the frame of the TCV Tokamak upgrade, two 84/126 GHz/2 s dual frequency gyrotrons designed by SPC and KIT and manufactured by THALES will be added to the existing EC-System. The first unit has been delivered to EPFL-SPC and tested. In the commissioning ...

2020

Advanced linear models for gyro-backward wave instabilities in gyrotrons

Jérémy Genoud

Parasitic oscillations excitation is one of the main point hindering high-power gyrotron operation for fusion application. These instabilities, besides being dangerous for the gyrotron components, could possibly degrade the electron beam quality before it ...

EPFL2019

From W7-X Towards ITER and Beyond: 2019 Status on EU Fusion Gyrotron Developments

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Jérémy Genoud, Jérémie Dubray, Ioannis Pagonakis, Blaise Marlétaz, Konstantinos Avramidis

In Europe, the research and development with main focus on achieving robust industrial designs of series gyrotrons for electron cyclotron heating and current drive of today's nuclear fusion experiments and towards a future DEMOnstration fusion power plant ...

IEEE2019

Diamond Window Technology for Electron Cyclotron Heating and Current Drive: State of the Art

Konstantinos Avramidis

Nuclear fusion power plants require electron cyclotron (EC) heating and current drive (H&CD) systems for plasma heating and stabilization. High-power microwave beams between 1 and 2?MW generated by gyrotrons propagate in a dedicated waveguide transmission ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2019

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

Overview of recent gyrotron R&D towards DEMO within EUROfusion Work Package Heating and Current Drive

Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémy Genoud, Ioannis Pagonakis, Martin Schmid, Konstantinos Avramidis

Gyrotron R&D within the EUROfusion Work Package Heating and Current Drive (WPHCD) is addressing the challenging requirements posed on gyrotrons by the European concept for a demonstration fusion power plant (EU DEMO). These requirements, as specified withi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Design and implementation of quasi-optical components for the upgrade of the TCV EC-system

Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Laurie Porte, Matthieu Toussaint, Florian Ramseyer

The EC-system of the TCV tokamak is progressively being upgraded with the addition of two MW-class dual-frequency gyrotrons (84 and 126 GHz/2s/1MW). In order to connect the two gyrotrons to the existing low field side and top launchers, new waveguide routi ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019