Publications de Daniele Brunetti

Occam's razor on the mechanism of resistive-wall-mode-induced beta limits in diverted tokamaks

External kink modes, believed to be the drive of the 0-limiting resistive wall mode, are strongly stabilized by the presence of a separatrix. We thus propose a novel mechanism explaining the appearance of long-wavelength global instabilities in free bounda ...

2023

Understanding JET-C quiescent phases with edge harmonic magnetohydrodynamic activity and comparison with behaviour under ITER-like wall conditioning

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Jonathan Graves, Daniele Brunetti, Alberto Mariani, Andreas Kleiner, Guillermo Bustos Ramirez

An analysis of edge localised mode-free (quiescent) H-mode discharges exhibiting edge harmonic magnetoydrodynamic activity in the JET-carbon wall machine is presented. It is observed that the otherwise quiescent pulses with multiple-n harmonic oscillations ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Towards understanding reactor relevant tokamak pedestals

Jonathan Graves, Ben McMillan, Daniele Brunetti

The physics of the tokamak pedestal is still not fully understood, for example there is no fully predictive model for the pedestal height and width. However, the pedestal is key in determining the fusion power for a given scenario. If we can improve our un ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Anisotropy and shaping effects on the stability boundaries of infernal ideal MHD modes in tokamak hybrid plasmas

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Jonathan Graves, Daniele Brunetti

Anisotropy and some limiting toroidal flow effects on the stability of nearly resonant ideal magnetohydrodynamic modes in hybrid shaped tokamak plasmas are investigated within the ideal MHD infernal mode framework. Such effects are found to alter the plasm ...

2020

Deep neural networks for plasma tomography with applications to JET and COMPASS

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yiming Li, Basil Duval, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Henri Weisen, Federico Nespoli, Alessandro Pau

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have found applications in many image processing tasks, such as feature extraction, image classification, and object recognition. It has also been shown that the inverse of CNNs, so-called deconvolutional neural network ...

2019

Role of fast ion pressure in the isotope effect in JET L-mode plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yiming Li, Basil Duval, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Henri Weisen, Federico Nespoli, Alessandro Pau

This paper presents results of JET ITER-like wall L-mode experiments in hydrogen and deuterium (D) plasmas, dedicated to the study of the isotope dependence of ion heat transport by determination of the ion critical gradient and stiffness by varying the io ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Modification of the Alfven wave spectrum by pellet injection

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yiming Li, Basil Duval, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Henri Weisen, Alessandro Pau, Federico Nespoli

Alfven eigenmodes driven by energetic particles are routinely observed in tokamak plasmas. These modes consist of poloidal harmonics of shear Alfven waves coupled by inhomogeneity in the magnetic field. Further coupling is introduced by 3D inhomogeneities ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Ion cyclotron resonance heating scenarios for DEMO

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yiming Li, Basil Duval, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Henri Weisen, Federico Nespoli, Alessandro Pau

The present paper offers an overview of the potential of ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH) or radio frequency heating for the DEMO machine. It is found that various suitable heating schemes are available. Similar to ITER and in view of the limited ban ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Self-consistent pedestal prediction for JET-ILW in preparation of the DT campaign

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yiming Li, Basil Duval, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Alessandro Pau, Cristian Sommariva

The self-consistent core-pedestal prediction model of a combination of EPED1 type pedestal prediction and a simple stiff core transport model is able to predict Type I ELMy (edge localized mode) pedestals of a large JET-ILW (ITER-like wall) database at the ...

2019

COREDIV numerical simulation of high neutron rate JET-ILW DD pulses in view of extension to JET-ILW DT experiments

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yiming Li, Basil Duval, Martinus Gijs, Duccio Testa, Jonathan Graves, Patrick Blanchard, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia

Two high performance JET-ILW pulses, pertaining to the 2016 experimental campaign, have been numerically simulated with the self-consistent code COREDIV with the aim of predicting the ELM-averaged power load to the target when extrapolated to DT plasmas. T ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019