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Divertor turbulence characterisation using Gas Puff Imaging in the TCV tokamak

The performance of magnetic confinement fusion devices, such as tokamaks, is strongly correlated to the phenomena that occur in the boundary region of the plasma core that faces the wall of the device. The dominant cross-field transport mechanisms from the ...

EPFL2024

Characterization of transversely confined electron beam-generated plasma using two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations

Guang-Yu Sun, Haomin Sun

Electron beam-generated plasmas (EBPs) have been used to modify the surface properties. In certain applications, EBPs are transversely confined and their properties are of value to the treatment. In this paper, the characteristics of an electron beam-gener ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2023

Linear theory of electron-plasma waves at arbitrary collisionality

Stephan Brunner, Paolo Ricci, Rogério Manuel Cabete De Jesus Jorge, Vyacheslav Konovets, Sonia Gamba

The dynamics of electron-plasma waves is described at arbitrary collisionality by considering the full Coulomb collision operator. The description is based on a Hermite–Laguerre decomposition of the velocity dependence of the electron distribution function ...

Cambridge University Press2019

Effects of collisionality and T e /T i on fluctuations in positive and negative δ tokamak plasmas

Stephan Brunner, Ambrogio Fasoli, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Gabriele Merlo, Matteo Fontana, Ajay Chandrarajan Jayalekshmi

The effects of negative triangularity () on confinement and fluctuations in plasmas covering a large range of parameters were investigated on the tokamak à configuration variable (TCV). The conditions explored in this paper include discharges where neutral ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

A moment-based model for plasma dynamics at arbitrary collisionality

Rogério Manuel Cabete De Jesus Jorge

Despite significant development over the last decades, a model able to describe the periphery region of magnetic confinement fusion devices, extending from the edge to the far scrape-off layer, is still missing. This is because this region is characterized ...

EPFL2019

Profile control simulations and experiments on TCV: a controller test environment and results using a model-based predictive controller

Timothy Goodman, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Sun Hee Kim, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Doohyun Kim, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Anna Teplukhina, Cristian Galperti, Mengdi Kong, Francesco Carpanese, Donghyun Kim

The successful performance of a model predictive profile controller is demonstrated in simulations and experiments on the TCV tokamak, employing a profile controller test environment. Stable high-performance tokamak operation in hybrid and advanced plasma ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Collisional damping rates for electron plasma waves reassessed

Stephan Brunner, Trach-Minh Tran

Collisional damping of electron plasma waves, the primary damping for high phase velocity waves, is proportional to the electron-ion collision rate, nu(ei,th). Here, it is shown that the damping rate normalized to nu(ei,th) depends on the charge state, Z, ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

Vlasov simulations of electron-ion collision effects on damping of electron plasma waves

Stephan Brunner, Trach-Minh Tran

Collisional effects can play an essential role in the dynamics of plasma waves by setting a minimum damping rate and by interfering with wave-particle resonances. Kinetic simulations of the effects of electron-ion pitch angle scattering on Electron Plasma ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Multi-dimensional Vlasov simulations and modeling of trapped-electron-driven filamentation of electron plasma waves

Stephan Brunner

Kinetic simulations of two-dimensional finite-amplitude electron plasma waves are performed in a one-wavelength long system. A systematic study of the most unstable linear sideband mode, in particular its growth rate gamma and wavenumber k(y), is carried o ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Improved confinement in high-density H-modes via modification of the plasma boundary with lower hybrid waves

Peng Xu, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Yu Lin

Injecting Lower Hybrid Range of Frequency (LHRF) waves into Alcator C-Mod's high-density H-mode plasmas has led to enhanced global energy confinement by increasing pedestal temperature and pressure gradients, decreasing the separatrix density, modifying th ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Physics of the conceptual design of the ITER plasma control system

Jonathan Bryan Lister, Richard Pitts

The ITER plasma control system (PCS) will play a central role in enabling the experimental program to attempt to sustain DT plasmas with Q = 10 for several hundred seconds and also support research toward the development of steady-state operation in ITER. ...

Elsevier Science Sa2014

Electron and ion kinetic effects on non-linearly driven electron plasma and ion acoustic waves

Stephan Brunner

Fully non-linear kinetic simulations of electron plasma and ion acoustic waves (IAWs) have been carried out with a new multi-species, parallelized Vlasov code. The numerical implementation of the Vlasov model and the methods used to compute the wave freque ...

Amer Inst Physics2013

Microphysics of Cosmic Plasmas: Hierarchies of Plasma Instabilities from MHD to Kinetic

Ivo Furno

In this article, we discuss the idea of a hierarchy of instabilities that can rapidly couple the disparate scales of a turbulent plasma system. First, at the largest scale of the system, L, current carrying flux ropes can undergo a kink instability. Second ...

Springer2013

Turbulent ion heating in TCV tokamak plasmas

Christian Schlatter

The Tokamak à configuration variable (TCV) features the highest electron cyclotron wave power density available to resonantly heat (ECRH) the electrons and to drive noninductive currents in a fusion grade plasma (ECCD). In more than 15 years of exploitatio ...

EPFL2009

Plasma rotation and momentum transport studies in the TCV tokamak based on charge exchange spectroscopy measurements

Alessandro Bortolon

Thermonuclear controlled fusion research is a highly active branch of plasma physics. The main goal is the production of energy from the fusion reaction of hydrogen isotope nuclei, the same reaction that powers stars. The most promising present approach ar ...

EPFL2009

Plasma transport and turbulence in the Helimak: Simulation and experiment

Paolo Ricci, Bo Li

The Helimak experiment produces a toroidal plasma with a helical magnetic field. A simulation-experiment comparison of turbulence in this device is presented, focusing on parameter regimes in which the turbulence is dominated by interchange modes with k(pa ...

American Institute of Physics2009

Mechanism for blob generation in the TORPEX toroidal plasma

Stephan Brunner, Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Jonathan Graves, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Benoît Labit, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler

The mechanism for blob generation is detailed in the toroidal magnetized plasma of the TORPEX device [ Fasoli et al., Phys. Plasmas 13, 055902 (2006) ] using an experimental configuration, which features a plasma region dominated by a coherent wave and a r ...

2008

Plasma production and transport in a simple magnetised toroidal plasma

Mario Ludovico Podesta

This Thesis addresses questions related to transport phenomena and the plasma production mechanisms by injection of microwaves in the electron-cyclotron frequency range in the simple magnetised toroidal plasma TORPEX. The second subject is investigated in ...

EPFL2007

Fast equilibration of silane/hydrogen plasmas in large area RF capacitive reactors monitored by optical emission spectroscopy

Laurent Fabien Hubert Sansonnens, Christoph Hollenstein, Alan Howling, Benjamin Strahm

The optimal plasma parameters for plasma processing, such as deposition of microcrystalline silicon from silane and hydrogen, are generally chosen in steady-state discharge conditions. However, this steady state must be reached in a short time after plasma ...

2007

Étude du transport d'énergie thermique dans les plasmas du tokamak à configuration variable au moyen de chauffage électronique cyclotronique

Yann Camenen

The development of controlled thermonuclear fusion, a quasi-unlimited energy source suitable for large scale electricity production, is one of the main goals of plasma physics research. Among the directions explored to date, the use of toroidal devices cal ...

EPFL2006

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