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Full radius integrated modelling of ohmic ramp-up at TCV including self consistent density prediction

Olivier Sauter, Michele Marin, Reinart Andreas J. Coosemans

The ramp-up is a critical phase in the operations of a Tokamak, during which engineering and physics aspects must be taken into account to ensure stability, minimize flux consumption and avoid disruptions. Predicting ramp-up phases faces challenges such as ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

L-H power threshold for neutral beam heated plasmas with Deuterium, Hydrogen, Helium and mixed ion species in TCV

Basil Duval, Yves Martin, Olivier Sauter, Alexander Karpushov, Benoît Labit, Alessandro Pau, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Artur Perek

A systematic study of the power threshold for L-H transition has been conducted in TCV. Only results from NB heated plasmas are reported. The dependencies of PLH on plasma current, plasma density and main ion species have been investigated. For Deuterium&# ...

IOP Publishing2025

Present status of heating neutral beam injection system at TCV

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Damien Fasel, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Ugo Siravo, Alexander Karpushov, Yanis Andrebe, Jérémie Dubray, Frédéric Dolizy, Rémy Jacquier, Matthieu Toussaint, Dmytry Mykytchuk

The paper describes the operation and upgrade of the Heating Neutral Beam Injection (HNBI) system as well as the related infrastructure at the Tokamak Configuration Variable (TCV) during the last years. In 2023, the installation of new TCV neutron shieldin ...

2025

Psep/PLH control in deuterium and deuterium-tritium JET plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Alessandro Pau

The high confinement mode (H-mode) is a promising route to achieve high performance tokamak operations, as the ones foreseen in ITER and beyond. However, accessing a stable H-mode phase requires that the power across the plasma separatrix, Psep, exceeds a ...

2025

Robust Confinement State Classification with Uncertainty Quantification Through Ensembled Data-driven Methods

Olivier Sauter, Alessandro Pau

Maximizing fusion performance in tokamaks relies on high energy confinement, often achieved through distinct operating regimes. The automated labeling of these confinement states is crucial to enable large-scale analyses or for real-time control applicatio ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Progress in the development of the ITER baseline scenario in TCV

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alexander Karpushov, Yann Camenen, Benoît Labit, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Simon Van Mulders, Filippo Bagnato, Alessandro Pau, Matteo Vallar, Cassandre Ekta Contré, Stefano Marchioni, Oleg Krutkin, Reinart Andreas J. Coosemans

Under the auspices of EUROfusion, the ITER baseline (IBL) scenario has been jointly investigated on AUG and TCV in the past years and this paper reports on the developments on TCV. It is found that the performance of TCV IBL is mainly limited by (neoclassi ...

2024

Flux pumping studies and Ti peaking by q-profile shaping using ECCD in ASDEX Upgrade

Olivier Sauter

On ASDEX Upgrade a prioritized ‘advanced Tokamak’ program has been run during the last two experimental campaigns, focusing on the effect of non-standard current profiles on the behavior of high beta plasmas. Two lines of non-standard (i.e. non-sawtoothing ...

EDP Sciences2024

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

Scenario optimization for the tokamak ramp-down phase in RAPTOR. Part B: safe termination of DEMO plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Emiliano Fable, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Anna Teplukhina, Simon Van Mulders, Cassandre Ekta Contré

An optimized plasma current ramp-down strategy is critical for safe and fast termination of plasma discharges in a tokamak demonstration fusion reactor (DEMO), both in planned and emergency scenarios, avoiding plasma disruptions and excessive heat loads to ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

WEST full tungsten operation with an ITER grade divertor

Olivier Sauter, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici

The mission of WEST (tungsten-W Environment in Steady-state Tokamak) is to explore long pulse operation in a full tungsten (W) environment for preparing next-step fusion devices (ITER and DEMO) with a focus on testing the ITER actively cooled W divertor in ...

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

First-principle based predictions of the effects of negative triangularity on DTT scenarios

Olivier Sauter, Gabriele Merlo, Alberto Mariani

Plasmas with negative triangularity (NT) shape have been recently shown to be able to achieve H-mode levels of confinement in L-mode, avoiding detrimental edge localised modes. Therefore, this plasma geometry is now studied as a possible viable option for ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Experiments and gyrokinetic simulations of TCV plasmas with negative triangularity in view of DTT operations

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alberto Mariani, Justin Richard Ball, Filippo Bagnato, Matteo Vallar

Negative triangularity (NT) scenarios in TCV have been compared to positive triangularity (PT) scenarios using the same plasma shapes foreseen for divertor tokamak test tokamak operations. The experiments provided a NT/PT L-mode pair and a PT H-mode with d ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Overview of physics results from MAST upgrade towards core-pedestal-exhaust integration

Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Matteo Vallar, Samuele Mazzi

Recent results from MAST Upgrade are presented, emphasising understanding the capabilities of this new device and deepening understanding of key physics issues for the operation of ITER and the design of future fusion power plants. The impact of MHD instab ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Scenario optimization for the tokamak ramp-down phase in RAPTOR: A. Analysis and model validation on ASDEX Upgrade

Olivier Sauter, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Anna Teplukhina, Simon Van Mulders, Cassandre Ekta Contré, Bernhard Sieglin

We discuss how the combination of experimental observations and rapid modeling has enabled to improve understanding of the tokamak ramp-down phase in ASDEX Upgrade. A series of dedicated experiments has been performed, to disentangle the effect of individu ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Dynamics of JET runaway electron beams in D2-rich shattered pellet injection mitigation experiments

Olivier Sauter, Joan Decker, Cristian Sommariva, Alessandro Pau

The publication provide further insights into the dynamics of JET runaway electron (RE) beams mitigated by D2-rich shattered pellet injection (SPI) (Reux et al 2022 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 64 034002). Multi-diagnostic analyses show that mechanisms cau ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Simultaneous access to high normalized density, current, pressure, and confinement in strongly-shaped diverted negative triangularity plasmas

Olivier Sauter

Strongly-shaped diverted negative triangularity (NT) plasmas in the DIII-D tokamak demonstrate simultaneous access to high normalized density, current, pressure, and confinement. NT plasmas are shown to exist across an expansive parameter space compatible ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

High performance power handling in the absence of an H-mode edge in negative triangularity DIII-D plasmas

Olivier Sauter

Experiments performed during strongly-shaped high-power diverted negative triangularity (NT) experiments in DIII-D achieved detached divertor conditions and a transient-free edge, showcasing the potential for application of NT to a core-edge integrated rea ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

DIII-D research to provide solutions for ITER and fusion energy

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda

The DIII-D tokamak has elucidated crucial physics and developed projectable solutions for ITER and fusion power plants in the key areas of core performance, boundary heat and particle transport, and integrated scenario operation, with closing the core-edge ...

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

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