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Numerical tools for burning plasmas

Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Jonathan Graves, Ben McMillan, Emmanuel Lanti, Emanuele Poli, Xiao Wang, Baruch Rofman

The software stack under development within a European coordinated effort on tools for burning plasma modelling is presented. The project is organised as a Task (TSVV Task 10) under the new E-TASC initiative (Litaudon et al 2022 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusio ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence and zonal flows driven by steep profile gradients using a delta-f approach with an evolving background Maxwellian

Stephan Brunner, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Ben McMillan, Moahan Murugappan

Long global gyrokinetic turbulence simulations are particularly challenging in situations where the system deviates strongly from its initial state and when fluctuation levels are high, for example, in strong gradient regions. For particle-in-cell simulati ...

2022

Towards understanding reactor relevant tokamak pedestals

Jonathan Graves, Ben McMillan, Daniele Brunetti

The physics of the tokamak pedestal is still not fully understood, for example there is no fully predictive model for the pedestal height and width. However, the pedestal is key in determining the fusion power for a given scenario. If we can improve our un ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Orb5: A global electromagnetic gyrokinetic code using the PIC approach in toroidal geometry

Stephan Brunner, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Angelino, Thibaut Vernay, Ben McMillan, Emmanuel Lanti, Julien Stanislas Pierre Dominski, Noé Thomas Elie Ohana, Aaron Lewis Scheinberg, Claudio Gheller

This paper presents the current state of the global gyrokinetic code Orb5 as an update of the previous reference (Jolliet et al., 2007). The Orb5 code solves the electromagnetic Vlasov–Maxwell system of equations using a PIC scheme and also includes collis ...

2019

Global turbulence features across marginality and non-local pedestal-core interactions

Stephan Brunner, Olivier Sauter, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Ben McMillan, Emmanuel Lanti, Noé Thomas Elie Ohana

Spatially non-local aspects of turbulent transport in tokamak plasmas are examined with global gyrokinetic simulations using the ORB5 code. Inspired by very accurate measurements in the TCV tokamak in L-mode, we initialise plasma profiles with constant log ...

2019

A locked mode indicator for disruption prediction on JET and ASDEX upgrade

Patrick Blanchard, Roland Behn, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Alberto Bottino, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Andrea Scarabosio, Hartmut Zohm, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Benoît Labit, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Ben McMillan, Marc Gruber, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Dávid Wágner, Attila Bencze, Doohyun Kim, Wouter Vijvers, Hoang Bao Le, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Claudio Marini, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

ELM-induced cold pulse propagation in ASDEX Upgrade

Patrick Blanchard, Roland Behn, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Richard Pitts, 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, Emiliano Fable, Javier García Hernández, Ben McMillan, Marc Gruber, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Dávid Wágner, Attila Bencze, Doohyun Kim, Wouter Vijvers, Hoang Bao Le, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Heinz Mueller, Anna Teplukhina, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Matteo Fontana, , , , , , , , , , , ,

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, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The effect of background flow shear on gyrokinetic turbulence in the cold ion limit

Stephan Brunner, Ben McMillan, Justin Richard Ball

2019

Validation of the ICRF antenna coupling code RAPLICASOL against TOPICA and experiments

Patrick Blanchard, Roland Behn, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Pierre Jacquot, Bruno Marchand, Yves Martin, Pascal Morel, Jean-Marc Moret, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Alberto Bottino, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Andrea Scarabosio, Hartmut Zohm, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Duccio Testa, Telmo David Ribeiro Da Costa, Benoît Labit, Emiliano Fable, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Javier García Hernández, Ben McMillan, Marc Gruber, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Jose Felix Vega Stavro, Lenke Horváth, Dávid Wágner, Attila Bencze, Thomas Riedl, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Diego Carnevale, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Mode excitation by an antenna in global gyrokinetic simulations

Stephan Brunner, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Ben McMillan, Emmanuel Lanti, Noé Thomas Elie Ohana

In order to get a better understanding of the linear and non-linear plasma interaction of microinstabilities and associated turbulence with different specific modes, an antenna is implemented in the global gyrokinetic code ORB5. It consists in applying an ...

2018

Gradient- and flux-driven global gyrokinetic simulations of ITG and TEM turbulence with an improved hybrid kinetic electron model

Stephan Brunner, Laurent Villard, Ben McMillan, Emmanuel Lanti, Noé Thomas Elie Ohana

2018

An arbitrary wavelength solver for global gyrokinetic simulations. Application to the study of fine radial structures on microturbulence due to non-adiabatic passing electron dynamics

Stephan Brunner, Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Ben McMillan, Julien Stanislas Pierre Dominski, Gabriele Merlo

The influence of the fine layers of the non-adiabatic passing electron response on electrostatic turbulent transport, previously studied systematically in flux tube geometry [Dominski et al., Phys. Plasmas 22, 062303 (2015)], is pursued in global geometry ...

Amer Inst Physics2017

Overview of progress in European medium sized tokamaks towards an integrated plasma-edge/wall solution

Patrick Blanchard, Roland Behn, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Richard Pitts, 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, Emiliano Fable, Javier García Hernández, Ben McMillan, Marc Gruber, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Dávid Wágner, Attila Bencze, Doohyun Kim, Wouter Vijvers, Hoang Bao Le, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Heinz Mueller, Anna Teplukhina, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, , , , , , , , ,

Overview of recent physics results from MAST

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Ricardo Pérez Suárez, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Ben McMillan, Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Padé approximation of the adiabatic electron contribution to the gyrokinetic quasi-neutrality equation in the ORB5 code

Stephan Brunner, Laurent Villard, Ben McMillan, Emmanuel Lanti, Julien Stanislas Pierre Dominski

This work aims at completing the implementation of a solver for the quasineutrality equation using a PadÃ© approximation in the global gyrokinetic code ORB5. Initially [Dominski, Ph.D. thesis, 2016], the Pade approximation was only implemented for the kine ...

2016

Overview of MAST results

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Ricardo Pérez Suárez, Jan Horacek, Jonathan Graves, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Ben McMillan, Otto Asunta

The Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST) programme is strongly focused on addressing key physics issues in preparation for operation of ITER as well as providing solutions for DEMO design choices. In this regard, MAST has provided key results in understand ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Turbulence and zonal flow structures in the core and L-mode pedestal of tokamak plasmas

Stephan Brunner, Olivier Sauter, Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Ben McMillan, Julien Stanislas Pierre Dominski, Gabriele Merlo

Zonal flows (ZF) play a crucial role in regulating ion temperature gradient (ITG) turbulence. In previous global gyrokinetic simulations [1] using the ORB5 code with the adiabatic electron model, it was observed that long-lived ZF structures, leading to a ...

IOP Publishing2014

Accuracy of momentum and gyrodensity transport in global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations

Laurent Villard, Ben McMillan

Gyrokinetic Particle-In-Cell (PIC) simulations based on conservative Lagrangian formalisms admit transport equations for conserved quantities such as gyrodensity and toroidal momentum, and these can be derived for arbitrary wavelength, even though previous ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Global Gyrokinetic Simulations of TEM Microturbulence

Stephan Brunner, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Thibaut Vernay, Ben McMillan

Institute of Physics2013