Publications by Francesca Maria Poli

NBI optimization on SMART and implications for scenario development

Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli

The SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak (SMART) under commissioning at the University of Seville, Spain, aims to explore confinement properties and possible advantages in confinement for compact/spherical tokamaks operating at negative vs. positive triangularity. T ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Development of a reduced model for energetic particle transport by sawteeth in tokamaks

Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Jiangyan Yang, Anna Teplukhina, Matteo Vallar

The sawtooth instability is known for inducing transport and loss of energetic particles (EPs), and for generating seed magnetic islands that can trigger tearing modes. Both effects degrade the overall plasma performance. Several theories and numerical mod ...

2022

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

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

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

DIII-D research towards establishing the scientific basis for future fusion reactors

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Stefan Müller, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Dongbin Zhao, Gang Yu, Huan Du, Alessandro Bortolon, Alessandro Marinoni, Jeffrey Huang, Sun Hee Kim, Jérôme Guterl, Zhixian Yan, Fang Liu, Terunobu Akiyama, Xin Yang, Wei Wu, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Federico David Halpern, Gabriele Merlo, Yu Fu, Shouguo Wang, Sung Chul Park, Xi Chen, Tzu-Hsien Shen, Bingying Zhao, Kyungjin Kim, Ji Hyun Kim, Yi Wang, Hui Wang, Zheng Wang

DIII-D research is addressing critical challenges in preparation for ITER and the next generation of fusion devices through focusing on plasma physics fundamentals that underpin key fusion goals, understanding the interaction of disparate core and boundary ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

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

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

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 ...

2019

Modification of the Alfven wave spectrum by pellet injection

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Ricardo Lima, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Soo-Jin Moon, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

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 ...

2019

Ion cyclotron resonance heating scenarios for DEMO

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

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 ...

2019

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

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia, Eduardo José Lascas Neto, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

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

Interpretative and predictive modelling of Joint European Torus collisionality scans

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

Transport modelling of Joint European Torus (JET) dimensionless collisionality scaling experiments in various operational scenarios is presented. Interpretative simulations at a fixed radial position are combined with predictive JETTO simulations of temper ...

2019

First principles and integrated modelling achievements towards trustful fusion power predictions for JET and ITER

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

Predictability of burning plasmas is a key issue for designing and building credible future fusion devices. In this context, an important effort of physics understanding and guidance is being carried out in parallel to JET experimental campaigns in H and D ...

2019

A new mechanism for increasing density peaking in tokamaks: improvement of the inward particle pinch with edge E x B shearing

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

Developing successful tokamak operation scenarios, as well as confident extrapolation of present-day knowledge requires a rigorous understanding of plasma turbulence, which largely determines the quality of the confinement. In particular, accurate particle ...

2019

Recurrence Plots for Dynamic Analysis of Type-I ELMs at JET With a Carbon Wall

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

In this paper, the dynamic characteristics of type-I edge-localized modes (ELM) time series from the JET tokamak, the world's largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment, have been investigated through recurrence plots (RPs). The analysis has be ...

2019

Adaptive learning for disruption prediction in non-stationary conditions

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

For many years, machine learning tools have proved to be very powerful disruption predictors in tokamaks. On the other hand, the vast majority of the techniques deployed assume that the input data is independent and is sampled from exactly the same probabi ...

2019

Control of the hydrogen:deuterium isotope mixture using pellets in JET

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

Deuterium pellets are injected into an initially pure hydrogen H-mode plasma in order to control the hydrogen: deuterium (H:D) isotope mixture. The pellets are deposited in the outer 20% of the minor radius, similar to that expected in ITER, creating trans ...

2019

Tests and developments of a long-pulse high-power 170 GHz absorbing matched load

Stefano Alberti, Damien Fasel, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Francesca Maria Poli, Francisco Sanchez, Ioannis Pagonakis

The future EC systems will consist of several gyrotron sources providing MW-level millimeter wave power at a frequency around or above 170 GHz. The development of matched loads is necessary to test the new sources, the components for the transmission lines ...

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Progress in disruption prevention for ITER

Olivier Sauter, Francesca Maria Poli, Umar Sheikh, Mengdi Kong, Alessandro Pau, Ji Hyun Kim

Key plasma physics and real-time control elements needed for robustly stable operation of high fusion power discharges in ITER have been demonstrated in recent research worldwide. Recent analysis has identified the current density profile as the main drive ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

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

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Martinus Gijs, Partha Dutta, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Vlad Trifa, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Ricardo Lima, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Sun Hee Kim, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Soo-Jin Moon, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Julio Rodriguez, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Daniel Scott Alessi, Daniele Brunetti, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Li Shuai, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Overview of the JET preparation for deuterium-tritium operation with the ITER like-wall

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Martinus Gijs, Partha Dutta, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Vlad Trifa, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Ricardo Lima, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Karin Söderström, Sun Hee Kim, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Soo-Jin Moon, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Julio Rodriguez, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Daniel Scott Alessi, Daniele Brunetti, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

On benchmarking of simulations of particle transport in ITER

Olivier Sauter, Francesca Maria Poli, Javier García Hernández, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Xiao Yuan, Anna Teplukhina

We report results of benchmarking of core particle transport simulations by a collection of codes widely used in transport modelling of tokamak plasmas. Our analysis includes formulation of transport equations, difference between electron and ion solvers, ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Multi-machine analysis of termination scenarios with comparison to simulations of controlled shutdown of ITER discharges

Olivier Sauter, Francesca Maria Poli, Anna Teplukhina

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