Publications by Jonathan Bryan Lister

LTCC magnetic sensors at EPFL and TCV: Lessons learnt for ITER

Thomas Maeder, Pierre Lavanchy, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Xavier Llobet, Blaise Marlétaz, Philippe Marmillod, Matthias Garcin, Ugo Siravo, Caroline Jacq, Christian Moura, Duccio Testa, Frédéric Dolizy, Severino Antonioni, Matthieu Toussaint, Steve Couturier, Adrien Aymeric Thibault Corne, Aylwin Iantchenko, Lorenzo Stipani

Innovative 3D high-frequency magnetic sensors have been designed and manufactured in-house for installation on the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV), and are currently routinely operational. These sensors combine the Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic ( ...

2019

Sparse representation of signals: from astrophysics to real-time data analysis for fusion plasmas and system optimization analysis for ITER and TCV

Patrick Blanchard, Ambrogio Fasoli, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Duccio Testa, Theodoros Panis, Mattia Albergante

Efficient, real-time and automated data analysis is one of the key elements for achieving scientific success in complex engineering and physical systems, of which two examples are the JET and ITER tokamaks. One problem which is common to these fields is th ...

2016

Novel aspects of plasma control in ITER

Jonathan Bryan Lister, Olivier Sauter, Sun Hee Kim, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici

ITER plasma control design solutions and performance requirements are strongly driven by its nuclear mission, aggressive commissioning constraints, and limited number of operational discharges. In addition, high plasma energy content, heat fluxes, neutron ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Development of the ITER Continuous External Rogowski: From conceptual design to final design

Jonathan Bryan Lister, Philippe Marmillod, Christian Schlatter, Duccio Testa, Matthieu Toussaint

In ITER, an accurate measurement of plasma current, with high reliability, is mandatory as this parameter is used to demonstrate licensing compliance with regulatory limits. For that purpose, several independent measurements based on magnetic diagnostics h ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

Design and first applications of the ITER integrated modelling & analysis suite

Basil Duval, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Olivier Sauter, Sun Hee Kim

The ITER Integrated Modelling & Analysis Suite (IMAS) will support both plasma operation and research activities on the ITER tokamak experiment. The IMAS will be accessible to all ITER members as a key tool for the scientific exploitation of ITER. The back ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2015

The ITPA disruption database

Jonathan Bryan Lister

A multi-device database of disruption characteristics has been developed under the auspices of the International Tokamak Physics Activity magneto-hydrodynamics topical group. The purpose of this ITPA disruption database (IDDB) is to find the commonalities ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2015

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

Prototyping and testing of the Continuous External Rogowski ITER magnetic sensor

Jonathan Bryan Lister, Philippe Marmillod, Duccio Testa, Matthieu Toussaint

The measurement of the plasma current in ITER plays an outstanding role as it is part of the machine protection and is a safety-relevant measurement: it will be used in relation with regulatory limits to show that the operation remains within the safe enve ...

Elsevier Science Sa2013

Achieving and sustaining advanced scenarios in ITER modelled by CRONOS and DINA-CH

Jonathan Bryan Lister, Karim Besseghir, Javier García Hernández

The heating and current drive characteristics for accessing advanced scenarios in ITER, close to those obtained in present-day experiments, are analysed together with the plasma performance using the prescribed-boundary CRONOS suites of codes. For the hybr ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

Science and technology research and development in support to ITER and the Broader Approach at CEA

Jonathan Bryan Lister, Vincent Martin, Nicolas Mellet, Louis Nicolas, Xiaoxia Bai, Javier García Hernández, Alexis Berne, Fang Liu, Daniel Keller, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Jonathan Bastien Cottet, Joan Decker, Yi Zhang, Yiming Li, Hui Wang

In parallel to the direct contribution to the procurement phase of ITER and Broader Approach, CEA has initiated research & development programmes, accompanied by experiments together with a significant modelling effort, aimed at ensuring robust operation, ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

Self-consistent simulation of plasma scenarios for ITER using a combination of 1.5D transport codes and free-boundary equilibrium codes

Jonathan Bryan Lister, Karim Besseghir, Javier García Hernández

Self-consistent transport simulation of ITER scenarios is a very important tool for the exploration of the operational space and for scenario optimization. It also provides an assessment of the compatibility of developed scenarios (which include fast trans ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

A potentially robust plasma profile control approach for ITER using real-time estimation of linearized profile response models

Jonathan Bryan Lister, Sun Hee Kim

An active plasma profile control approach for ITER, which is potentially robust by being tolerant to changing and uncertain physics, has been explored in this work, using a technique based on real-time estimation of linearized profile response models. The ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2012

A new approach to plasma profile control in ITER

Jonathan Bryan Lister, Sun Hee Kim

Advanced tokamak operation in ITER, such as the steady-state and hybrid modes, requires an active realtime feedback control of plasma profiles to achieve the advanced regimes for sustained operation. In this work, we have explored a potentially robust cont ...

Elsevier Science Sa2012

Actuator and diagnostic requirements of the ITER Plasma Control System

Jonathan Bryan Lister, Yong Yang

The ITER Plasma Control System (PCS) requires an extensive set of about 50 diagnostic systems to measure the plasma response and about 20 actuators to act on the plasma to carry out its control functions. The specifications and real limitations of the actu ...

Elsevier Science Sa2012

Prototyping Conventionally Wound High-Frequency Magnetic Sensors for ITER

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

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

Design of the ITER high-frequency magnetic diagnostic coils

Thomas Maeder, Nadine Baluc, René Chavan, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Philippe Marmillod, Duccio Testa, Francisco Sanchez, Matthieu Toussaint

This paper is an overview of work carried out on the design of the ITER high-frequency magnetic diagnostic coil (HF sensor). In the first part, the ITER requirements for the HF sensor are presented. In the second part, the ITER reference design of the HF s ...

Elsevier2011

Assessment of the ITER high-frequency magnetic diagnostic set

Thomas Maeder, René Chavan, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Jean-Marc Moret, Albert Perez, Gilbert Tonetti, Duccio Testa, Francisco Sanchez, Jérôme Guterl, Matthieu Toussaint

The ITER high-frequency (HF) magnetic diagnostic system has to provide essential measurements of MHD instabilities with vertical bar delta B-MEAS/B-POL vertical bar similar to 10(-4) (similar to 1 G) for frequencies up to 2 MHz to resolve toroidal mode num ...

Elsevier2011

Assessment of the ITER High-Frequency Magnetic Diagnostic Set

Thomas Maeder, René Chavan, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Jean-Marc Moret, Albert Perez, Gilbert Tonetti, Duccio Testa, Francisco Sanchez, Jérôme Guterl, Matthieu Toussaint

The ITER high-frequency (HF) magnetic diagnostic system has to provide essential measurements of MHD instabilities with |deltaBmeas/BPOL|~1e-4 (~1G) for frequencies up to 2MHz to resolve toroidal mode numbers (n) in the range |n|=10 to |n|=50. A review of ...

2011

Prototyping a High-Frequency Inductive Magnetic Sensor Using the Nonconventional, Low-Temperature Co-Fired Ceramic Technology for Use in ITER

Thomas Maeder, René Chavan, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Jean-Marc Moret, Gilbert Tonetti, Duccio Testa, Jérôme Guterl, Matthieu Toussaint

The ITER high-frequency (HF) magnetic sensor is currently intended to be a conventional, Mirnov-type, pickup coil, designed to provide measurements of magnetic instabilities with magnitude as low as |dB|~10e-4G at the position of the sensors and up to freq ...

2011

A generic data structure for integrated modelling of tokamak physics and subsystems

Jonathan Bryan Lister, Olivier Sauter

The European Integrated Tokamak Modelling Task Force (ITM-TF) is developing a new type of fully modular and flexible integrated tokamak simulator, which will allow a large variety of simulation types. This ambitious goal requires new concepts of data struc ...

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