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Tokamak equilibrium reconstruction code LIUQE and its real time implementation

Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Jean-Marc Moret, Holger Reimerdes, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Hoang Bao Le

Equilibrium reconstruction consists in identifying, from experimental measurements, a distribution of the plasma current density that satisfies the pressure balance constraint. The LIUQE code adopts a computationally efficient method to solve this problem, ...

Elsevier2015

NBI fast ion confinement in the helical core of MAST hybrid-like plasmas

Jonathan Graves, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, David Pfefferlé, Cyril Misev

Energetic ions are found to be transported strongly from the core of MAST hybrid-like plasmas during long-lived mode (LLM) magnetohydrodynamic activity. The resulting impact on the neutral beam ion deposition and concurrent current drive is modelled usin ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2014

Power exhaust in the snowflake divertor for L- and H-mode TCV tokamak plasmas

Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Wouter Vijvers

The snowflake (SF) divertor is a plasma configuration that may enable tokamak operation at high performance and lower peak heat loads on the plasma-facing components than a standard single-null divertor. This paper reports on the results of experiments per ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2014

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

Basic investigations of electrostatic turbulence and its interaction with plasma and suprathermal ions in a simple magnetized toroidal plasma

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Fabio Avino, Nicola Vianello, Sébastien Jolliet, Fabio Riva, Kyle Gustafson, Alexandre Dominique Bovet

Progress in basic understanding of turbulence and its influence on the transport both of the plasma bulk and of suprathermal components is achieved in the TORPEX simple magnetized torus. This configuration combines a microwave plasma production scheme with ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

Power requirements for electron cyclotron current drive and ion cyclotron resonance heating for sawtooth control in ITER

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Jonathan Graves, Costanza Zucca, Martin Jucker, Otto Asunta

13 MW of electron cyclotron current drive (ECCD) power deposited inside the q = 1 surface is likely to reduce the sawtooth period in ITER baseline scenario below the level empirically predicted to trigger neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs). However, since t ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

Turbulent regimes in the tokamak scrape-off layer

Paolo Ricci, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Sébastien Jolliet, Federico David Halpern, Annamaria Mosetto

We identify the turbulent regimes in the tokamak scrape-off layer as a function of plasma resistivity, electron to ion mass ratio, safety factor, and magnetic shear. We find that two main instabilities drive turbulence in the SOL: Drift Waves, with their r ...

2013

Prototyping Conventionally Wound High-Frequency Magnetic Sensors for ITER

Jean-Marc Moret, Duccio Testa, René Chavan, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Matthieu Toussaint, Francisco Sanchez

The high-frequency (HF) magnetic sensors for ITER are currently based on a conventional, Mirnov-type, pick-up coil, with an effective area in the range 0.03

American Nuclear Society2012

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