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Milestone in predicting core plasma turbulence: successful multi-channel validation of the gyrokinetic code GENE

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Benoît Labit, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Mengdi Kong, Simon Van Mulders, Cristian Sommariva, Alessandro Pau

On the basis of several recent breakthroughs in fusion research, many activities have been launched around the world to develop fusion power plants on the fastest possible time scale. In this context, high-fidelity simulations of the plasma behavior on lar ...

2025

Nonlinear excitation of energetic particle driven geodesic acoustic mode by resonance overlap with Alfvén instability in ASDEX Upgrade

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Benoît Labit, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Mengdi Kong, Simon Van Mulders, Cristian Sommariva, Alessandro Pau

The Alfvén instability nonlinearly excited the energetic-particle-driven geodesic acoustic mode on the ASDEX-Upgrade tokamak, as demonstrated experimentally. The mechanism of the energetic-particle-driven geodesic acoustic mode excitation and the mode nonl ...

Nature Research2025

Study of impurity C transport and plasma rotation in negative triangularity on the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Benoît Labit, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Justin Richard Ball, Filippo Bagnato, Alessandro Pau, Dmytry Mykytchuk

Carbon impurity transport is studied in the TCV tokamak using a charge exchange recombination diagnostic. TCVs flexible shaping capabilities were exploited to extend previous impurity transport studies to negative triangularity (delta < 0). A practical way ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Comparison of detachment in Ohmic plasmas with positive and negative triangularity

Basil Duval, Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Artur Perek

In recent years, negative triangularity (NT) has emerged as a potential high-confinement L-mode reactor solution. In this work, detachment is investigated using core density ramps in lower single null Ohmic L-mode plasmas across a wide range of upper, lowe ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Observation of magnetic islands in tokamak plasmas during the suppression of edge-localized modes

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Benoît Labit, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Mengdi Kong, Cristian Sommariva, Alessandro Pau

In tokamaks, a leading platform for fusion energy, periodic filamentary plasma eruptions known as edge-localized modes occur in plasmas with high-energy confinement and steep pressure profiles at the plasma edge. These edge-localized modes could damage the ...

2024

Expulsion of runaway electrons using ECRH in the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Joan Decker, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Sommariva, Arsène Stéphane Tema Biwole, Jean Arthur Cazabonne, Umesh Kumar, Luke Simons

Runaway electrons (REs) are a concern for tokamak fusion reactors from discharge startup to termination. A sudden localized loss of a multi-megaampere RE beam can inflict severe damage to the first wall. Should a disruption occur, the existence of a RE see ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Excitation of toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes with counter-current NBI in the TCV tokamak

Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Matteo Vallar, Samuele Mazzi

In TCV, unstable modes excited by resonant interaction between the shear Alfvèn waves in con- tinuum gaps and energetic particles have been observed in scenarios with Neutral Beam Injection (NBI). TCV is a middle-size device (R 0 /a = 0.88/0.25) equipped w ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Experimental and numerical investigations of electron transport enhancement by electron-cyclotron plasma-wave interaction in tokamaks

Laurent Villard, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Joan Decker, Aylwin Iantchenko, Jean Arthur Cazabonne, Giovanni Di Giannatale

Energy transfer from electron-cyclotron (EC) waves to the plasma is being routinely used in tokamaks to heat and drive current through the electron channel. Technical applications such as magnetohydrodynamic mode mitigation require power deposition with a ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Vertical electron cyclotron emission diagnostic on the tokamak à configuration variable

Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte

In this paper, a diagnostic for the measurement of the electron cyclotron emission (ECE) from non-thermal electrons in magnetically confined fusion plasmas is presented. The diagnostic employs a vertical viewing line of sight that allows us to directly inf ...

2023

Publisher's Note: "Vertical electron cyclotron emission diagnostic on the tokamak à configuration variable" [Rev. Sci. Instrum. vol 94, 103504, 2023]

Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte

2023

Enhanced confinement in diverted negative-triangularity L-mode plasmas in TCV

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Benoît Labit, Alessandro Marinoni, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Leonardo Pigatto, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Filippo Bagnato, Alessandro Pau, Matteo Vallar

The favorable confinement properties of negative-triangularity (NT) tokamak configurations were discovered in the TCV tokamak in the late 1990s and were documented over the two following decades, through investigations of predominantly electron-heated plas ...

2022

Overview of the TCV tokamak experimental programme

Patrick Blanchard, Stephan Brunner, Stefano Alberti, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Xavier Llobet, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Oulfa Chellaï, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Matteo Fontana, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Dahye Choi, Aylwin Iantchenko, Mengdi Kong, Roberto Maurizio, Francesco Carpanese, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Progress from ASDEX Upgrade experiments in preparing the physics basis of ITER operation and DEMO scenario development

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Benoît Labit, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Sommariva, Alessandro Pau

An overview of recent results obtained at the tokamak ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) is given. A work flow for predictive profile modelling of AUG discharges was established which is able to reproduce experimental H-mode plasma profiles based on engineering parameter ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Performance of a high vacuum, high temperature compatible millimeter-range viewing dump for the vertical ECE experiment on TCV

Ambrogio Fasoli, Laurie Porte, Arsène Stéphane Tema Biwole

A high vacuum and high temperature compatible viewing dump, made of MACOR, was designed and installed in TCV for Vertical ECE experiments in the 75-110 GHz frequency range. Measurements of the dump prior to installation in the tokamak showed in more than 9 ...

2021

High resolution density pedestal measurements during edge localized modes by short-pulse reflectometry in the TCV tokamak

Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Benoît Labit, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

This publication presents high spatio-temporal resolution (mm/μs) density profile measurements of the pedestal top during type I, III, and small edge localized mode (ELM) H- mode plasmas in the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV). These measurements wer ...

2021

V-band nanosecond-scale pulse reflectometer diagnostic in the TCV tokamak [Correction] (vol 90, 123501, 2019)

Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

Overview of physics studies on ASDEX Upgrade

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alberto Bottino, Marco Wischmeier, Andrea Scarabosio, Hartmut Zohm, Laurie Porte, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Benoît Labit, Emiliano Fable, Alessandro Bortolon, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Fang Liu, Dávid Wágner, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Emanuele Poli, Nicola Vianello, Giovanni Tardini, Cristian Sommariva, Alessandro Pau, Otto Asunta, Haomin Sun, Xiao Wang, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

The ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) programme, jointly run with the EUROfusion MST1 task force, continues to significantly enhance the physics base of ITER and DEMO. Here, the full tungsten wall is a key asset for extrapolating to future devices. The high overall heat ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Evolution of nitrogen concentration and ammonia production in N-2-seeded H-mode discharges at ASDEX Upgrade

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alberto Bottino, Marco Wischmeier, Andrea Scarabosio, Hartmut Zohm, Laurie Porte, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Emiliano Fable, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Dávid Wágner, Doohyun Kim, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Emanuele Poli, Nicola Vianello, Giovanni Tardini, Donghyun Kim, Cristian Sommariva, Otto Asunta, Haomin Sun, Xiao Wang, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

Ammonia formation was studied in a series of dedicated nitrogen seeded H-mode discharges at ASDEX Upgrade. The evolution of ammonia formation was investigated with a reference phase before the seeding, and a long, stable flat-top nitrogen-seeded phase. It ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Investigation of the role of electron temperature gradient modes in electron heat transport in TCV plasmas

Stephan Brunner, Olivier Sauter, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Claudio Marini, Alberto Mariani

Electron-scale micro-turbulence driven by the electron temperature gradient (ETG) instability has recently been shown to impact the electron heat transport in tokamaks. Given the relevance of these mechanisms for ITER scenarios, a new study has been carrie ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Dependence on plasma shape and plasma fueling for small edge-localized mode regimes in TCV and ASDEX Upgrade

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Frédéric Dolizy, Emiliano Fable, Javier García Hernández, Ben McMillan, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Fang Liu, Hugo De Oliveira, Daniele Brunetti, Zhouji Huang, Claudio Marini, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Umar Sheikh, Alberto Mariani, Emanuele Poli, Cristian Galperti, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,