Publications de Alberto Bottino

Verification of the Fourier-enhanced 3D finite element Poisson solver of the gyrokinetic full-f code PICLS

Stephan Brunner, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Moahan Murugappan

We introduce and derive the Fourier -enhanced 3D electrostatic field solver of the gyrokinetic full -f PIC code PICLS. The solver makes use of a Fourier representation in one periodic direction of the domain to make the solving of the system easily paralle ...

Elsevier2024

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

Nonlinear interaction of Alfvénic instabilities and turbulence via the modification of the equilibrium profiles

Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Xiao Wang

Nonlinear simulations of Alfvén modes (AMs) driven by energetic particles (EPs) in the presence of turbulence are performed with the gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code ORB5. The AMs carry a heat flux, and consequently they nonlinearly modify the plasma temp ...

Cambridge University Press2023

How accurate are flux-tube (local) gyrokinetic codes in modeling energetic particle effects on core turbulence?

Olivier Sauter, Alberto Bottino, Emanuele Poli

Flux-tube (local) gyrokinetic codes are widely used to simulate drift-wave turbulence in magnetic confinement devices. While a large number of studies show that flux-tube codes provide an excellent approximation for turbulent transport in medium-large devi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Experimental confirmation of efficient island divertor operation and successful neoclassical transport optimization in Wendelstein 7-X

Gregory Vogel, Eduardo Sanchez, Frank Rüdiger Wagner, Alberto Bottino, Hartmut Zohm, Jonathan Graves, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Michel Haas, Emiliano Fable, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Attila Bencze, Xiaoxue Han, Adnan Ali, Jieping Zhu, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Antoine Baillod, Konstantinos Avramidis, Nicola Vianello, Sheng Xu, Mike Machielsen, Ajay Kumar, Hui Wang, Shuai Liu

We present recent highlights from the most recent operation phases of Wendelstein 7-X, the most advanced stellarator in the world. Stable detachment with good particle exhaust, low impurity content, and energy confinement times exceeding 100 ms, have been ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

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

Linear and nonlinear excitation of TAE modes by external electromagnetic perturbations using ORB5

Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Emmanuel Lanti, Mohsen Sadr

The excitation of toroidicity-induced Alfven eigenmodes (TAEs) using prescribed external electromagnetic perturbations (hereafter 'antenna') acting on a confined toroidal plasma, as well as its nonlinear couplings to other modes in the system, is studied. ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Gyrokinetic investigation of Alfven instabilities in the presence of turbulence

Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino

The nonlinear dynamics of beta-induced Alfven eigenmodes (BAEs) driven by energetic particles (EPs) in the presence of ion-temperature-gradient turbulence is investigated, by means of selfconsistent global gyrokinetic simulations and analytical theory. A t ...

2021

Implementation of energy transfer technique in ORB5 to study collisionless wave-particle interactions in phase-space

Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Emmanuel Lanti, Noé Thomas Elie Ohana, Emanuele Poli

A new diagnostic has been developed to investigate the wave-particle interaction in the phase-space in gyrokinetic particle-in-cell codes. Keeping information about energy transfer terms in the velocity space, the technique has been implemented and tested ...

2021

Numerics and computation in gyrokinetic simulations of electromagnetic turbulence with global particle-in-cell codes

Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Emmanuel Lanti

Electromagnetic turbulence is addressed in tokamak and stellarator plasmas with the global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell codes ORB5 (E Lanti et al, Comp. Phys. Comm., 251, 107072 (2020)) and EUTERPE (V Kornilov et al, Phys. Plasmas, 11, 3196 (2004)). The la ...

2021

Nonlinear gyrokinetic PIC simulations in stellarators with the code EUTERPE

Eduardo Sanchez, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino

In this work, the first nonlinear particle-in-cell simulations carried out in a stellarator with the global gyrokinetic code EUTERPE using adiabatic electrons and realistic plasma parameters are reported. Several studies are conducted with the aim of enabl ...

Cambridge University Press2020

Nonlinear dynamics of energetic-particle driven geodesic acoustic modes in ASDEX Upgrade

Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Emmanuel Lanti, Noé Thomas Elie Ohana, Emanuele Poli

Turbulence in tokamaks generates radially sheared zonal flows. Their oscillatory counterparts, geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs), appear due to the action of the magnetic field curvature. The GAMs can be driven unstable by an anisotropic energetic particle (E ...

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

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

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

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

First principles gyrokinetic analysis of electromagnetic plasma instabilities

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

A two-fold analysis of electromagnetic core tokamak instabilities in the framework of the gyrokinetic theory is presented. First principle theoretical foundations of the gyrokinetic theory are used to explain and justify the numerical results obtained with ...

2019

Gyrokinetic full-f particle-in-cell simulations on open field lines with PICLS

Alberto Bottino, Emmanuel Lanti, Noé Thomas Elie Ohana

While in recent years gyrokinetic simulations have become the workhorse for theoretical turbulence and transport studies in the plasma core, their application to the edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) region presents significant challenges. In particular, ste ...

2019

Pullback Scheme Implementation in ORB5

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

The pullback scheme is implemented in the global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code ORB5 (Jolliet et al., 2007[1]) to mitigate the cancellation problem in electromagnetic simulations. The equations and the discretisation used by the code are described. Nume ...

Elsevier2019