Publications by Alessandro Marinoni

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

The high-power helicon program at DIII-D: gearing up for first experiments

Alessandro Marinoni

Helicon current drive (CD), also called fast wave CD in the lower hybrid range of frequencies, has long been regarded as a promising CD tool for reactor grade plasmas. A newly installed MW-level system at DIII-D will be the first test of this technology in ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Diverted negative triangularity plasmas on DIII-D: the benefit of high confinement without the liability of an edge pedestal

Stefano Coda, Alessandro Marinoni, Francesco Sciortino

Diverted discharges at negative triangularity on the DIII-D tokamak sustain normalized confinement and pressure levels typical of standard H-mode scenarios (H (98y2) similar or equal to 1, beta (N) similar or equal to 3) without developing an edge pressure ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

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

H-mode grade confinement in L-mode edge plasmas at negative triangularity on DIII-D

Olivier Sauter, Alessandro Marinoni, Sung Chul Park

Plasmas with a negative triangularity shape have been created on the DIII-D tokamak that, despite maintaining standard L-mode edge radial profiles, reach volume averaged pressure levels typical of H-mode scenarios. Within the auxiliary power available for ...

2019

Multi-device studies of pedestal physics and confinement in the I-mode regime

Alessandro Marinoni, Christian Gabriel Theiler

This paper describes joint ITPA studies of the I-mode regime, which features an edge thermal barrier together with L-mode-like particle and impurity transport and no edge localized modes (ELMs). The regime has been demonstrated on the Alcator C-Mod, ASDEX ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2016

Investigating profile stiffness and critical gradients in shaped TCV discharges using local gyrokinetic simulations of turbulent transport

Stephan Brunner, Olivier Sauter, Laurent Villard, Yann Camenen, Alessandro Marinoni, Gabriele Merlo

The experimental observation made on the TCV tokamak of a significant confinement improvement in plasmas with negative triangularity (delta < 0) compared to those with standard positive triangularity has been interpreted in terms of different degrees of pr ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Analysis of the BN-600 fast-spectrum core mock-up at BFS-2 zero-power facility using MCNPX

Gaëtan Girardin, Alessandro Marinoni, Konstantin Mikityuk

A 3D full-core heterogeneous model of the BFS-62-3A critical benchmark experiment was developed and validated using the Monte Carlo MCNPX-2.4.0 code. ...

Elsevier2012

Recent TCV results – innovative plasma shaping to improve plasma properties and insight

Stephan Brunner, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Marc Moret, Antoine Pochelon, Olivier Sauter, Laurent Villard, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Jonathan Rossel, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Paolo Angelino, Benoît Labit, Alessandro Marinoni, Mikael Rancic, Andreas Pitzschke, Dávid Wágner, David Nicholas Wagner

2012

Plasma fluctuation studies in the TCV tokamak : modeling of shaping effects and advanced diagnostic development

Alessandro Marinoni

One of the most important issues for magnetic-confinement fusion research is the so-called anomalous transport across magnetic field lines, i.e. transport that is in excess of that caused by collisional processes. The need to reduce anomalous transport in ...

EPFL2009

Clarifications to the limitations of the s-alpha equilibrium model for gyrokinetic computations of turbulence

Stephan Brunner, Laurent Villard, Sébastien Jolliet, Alessandro Marinoni, Xavier Lapillonne

In the context of gyrokinetic flux-tube simulations of microturbulence in magnetized toroidal plasmas, different treatments of the magnetic equilibrium are examined. Considering the Cyclone DIII-D base case parameter set [Dimits et al., Phys. Plasmas 7, 96 ...

American Institute of Physics2009

JET (He-3)-D scenarios relying on RF heating: survey of selected recent experiments

Alessandro Marinoni

Recent JET experiments have been devoted to the study of (He-3)-D plasmas involving radio frequency (RF) heating. This paper starts by discussing the RF heating efficiency theoretically expected in such plasmas, covering both relevant aspects of wave and o ...

Institute of Physics2009

The effect of plasma triangularity on turbulent transport:modelling TCV experiments by linear and non linear gyrokinetic simulations

Stephan Brunner, Antoine Pochelon, Olivier Sauter, Laurent Villard, Stefano Coda, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Alessandro Marinoni, Xavier Lapillonne

The effect of plasma shape on confinement has been experimentally explored in the TCV tokamak revealing that the core electron heat transport is significantly reduced by a negative triangularity configuration, which could indicate a (partial) stabilization ...

2009

The physics of electron internal transport barriers in the TCV tokamak

Roland Behn, Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Emiliano Fable, Costanza Zucca, Alessandro Marinoni

Electron internal transport barriers (elTBs) are generated in the TCV tokamak with strong electron cyclotron resonance heating in a variety of conditions, ranging from steady-state fully noninductive scenarios to stationary discharges with a finite inducti ...

International Atomic Energy Agency2007

The impact of triangularity on plasma confinement: TCV experiments vs non-linear gyrokinetic modelling

Stephan Brunner, Antoine Pochelon, Laurent Villard, Stefano Coda, Martin Jucker, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Alessandro Marinoni, Xavier Lapillonne

2007

Critical temperature gradient length signatures in heat wave propagation across internal transport barriers in the Joint European Torus

Alessandro Marinoni

New results on electron heat wave propagation using ion cyclotron resonance heating power modulation in the Joint European Torus (JET) [P. H. Rebut , Nucl. Fusion 25, 1011 (1985)] plasmas characterized by internal transport barriers (ITBs) are presented. T ...

2007

The impact of triangularity on plasma confinement: TCV experiments vs non-linear gyrokinetic modelling

Stephan Brunner, Antoine Pochelon, Laurent Villard, Stefano Coda, Martin Jucker, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Alessandro Marinoni, Xavier Lapillonne

2007

Physics insight from plasma shaping experiments in the TCV tokamak

Stephan Brunner, Stefano Alberti, Roland Behn, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Antoine Pochelon, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Alberto Bottino, Andrea Scarabosio, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Alessandro Bortolon, Alessandro Marinoni

2007

Gyrokinetic simulations of shaping effects on turbulent heat and particle transport observed on the TCV tokamak

Stephan Brunner, Antoine Pochelon, Olivier Sauter, Laurent Villard, Yann Camenen, Alessandro Marinoni, Xavier Lapillonne

2007

Gyrokinetic simulations of shaping effects on turbulent heat and particle transport

Stephan Brunner, Antoine Pochelon, Olivier Sauter, Laurent Villard, Yann Camenen, Alessandro Marinoni, Xavier Lapillonne

2007